Module Specification
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Title Introduction to Animal Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health
Code LIFE126
Coordinator Dr LU Sneddon
School of Life Sciences
Lsneddon@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2016-17 Level 4 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
LIFE103  

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
LIFE216; LIFE240 

Co-requisite modules:
 

Linked Modules:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 27
This refers to timetabled lectures in which key concepts are introduced.
  5
This refers to 5 timetabled tutorials in which case studies are discussed.
      32
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 118
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Unseen Written Exam  2h  Semester 2  60  Yes    Exam 
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Coursework  2h  Semester 2  40  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Group presentation Notes (applying to all assessments) Assessment 2 cannot be anonymously marked because it is a presentation. For this assignments, students work together in groups to produce a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation is marked during a 2 h long presentation session, and the individual students' marks is determined through a group mark for the presentation and a peer mark for individual contribution. If a student fails, the reassessment consists of an individual PowerPoint presentation. 

Aims

  1. To develop students'' knowledge in the major veterinary animal infectious diseases specifically bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases.

  2. To introduce students to the basic measures of diseases including epidemiological principles, the control, spread and treatment of diseases.

  3. To introduce students to basic concepts in food security, safety, impact on the environment and veterinary public health

Learning Outcomes

Describe a variety of veterinary animal infectious diseases including bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases

Explain the basic measures of disease including the control and transmission of specific diseases

Explain basic epidemiological concepts and their application

Discuss the basic concepts of Veterinary public health including food safety, specific zoonoses, their biology and control.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lecture - This refers to timetabled lectures in which key concepts are introduced.

Tutorial - This refers to 5 timetabled tutorials in which case studies are discussed.

Group Project - Refers to time spent working in groups preparing for tutorials

Syllabus
1 

Theme 1: Host and parasite

·         Host response and defence
·         Introduction to veterinary viruses
·         Case study: viral disease
·         Introduction to veterinary bacteria
·         Case study: bacterial disease
·         Introduction to veterinary parasites
·         Case study: parasite disease
·         Introduction to fungal diseases of a nimals
·         Infectious disease pathogenesis
 
Theme 2: Infection the population and the environment
·         Measures of disease and association (including disease causation)
·         Disease transmission
·         Modelling
·         Risk Assessment
·         Disease surveillance and control
·         Emerging infectious diseases
·         Wildlife zoonoses
 
Theme 3: Infection and society
·         Introduction to Veterinary Public Health
·         Food chain and infection
·         Principles of food hygiene
·         Companion animals and public health
·         Antimicrobials: residues or resistance
·         Infection and economics
·         The international dimension
 
Theme 4: Integration
Case study tutorials and self-directed learning based on small groups of students each studying a different case (viral, bacterial, parasitic, TSEs) and integrating the above themes.

Recommended Texts
Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.
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