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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

301298 (v.3) Neuroscience 332

Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 301433 (v.5) BIO31 Our Internal Internet or any previous version
AND
302425 (v.2) Our Internal Internet - Its Structure and Function 304 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 314236 (v.1) Anatomy and Neuroscience 234 or any previous version
OR
8846 (v.8) Physiology 232 or any previous version
Syllabus: Nervous system development, overview, plasticity, blood supply, meninges, CSF, receptors, somatosensation, visual, auditory vestibular perception, cortical, cerebellar and brainstem control of movement. Hypothalamus structure and role with autonomic nervous system function, control and interaction with cerebral function. The role of the limbic system in emotion, learning and memory. Behaviour, sleep & dreaming, hunger & thirst.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 010913 Human Biology
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External