Category: Life Science
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LIFESCI 3LA3: Introduction to Data Science
This course will introduce basic concepts of how we use data in science. Students interested in research need to take information they gather or generate from a lab bench, field site, or other source and translate that into meaningful inferences about the processes they are studying. This course will enable students to take complex datasets and distill them into meaningful information from which they can draw reasoned conclusions. The course will include data creation, curation, manipulation, visualization, and analysis. The course will emphasize examples from life sciences, although the principles apply to many different disciplines.
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LIFESCI 2AA3: Introduction to Topics in Life Sciences
This course is a forum for the introduction of diverse interdisciplinary research topics within Life Sciences. Students will explore different methodologies and applications of current research in these fields to human health. Students will also practice communicating science in various formats and explore streams and opportunities in the Life Sciences Program. [3 units]
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Lifesci 2L03: Living Systems Laboratory
The normal physiology of a healthy individual through to the pathophysiological consequences of disease at the cell and tissue level, and how this can lead to greater implications between the various systems of the body will be discussed, in addition to disease management with pharmacologic agents and other lifestyle approaches. [3 units]
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LIFESCI 3AA3: Human Pathophysiology
This course examines the normal physiology of a healthy individual through to the pathophysiological consequences of disease at the cell and tissue level, and how this can lead to greater implications between the various systems of the body. Disease management with pharmacologic agents and other lifestyle approaches will be discussed. [3 unit]
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LIFESCI 1D03: Medical Imaging Physics
An introduction to the physics underlying some of the medical imaging techniques used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Topics include: X-ray (transmission) radiography, computed tomography, an introduction to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), basic principles of ultrasonography, radioactivity and nuclear medicine, and a brief investigation into the biological effects of radiation. [3 units]
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LIFESCI 2A03: Research Methods in Life Sciences
An examination and application of the scientific method. Selected research problems will be explored to experience different approaches to hypothesis formulation, testing, interpretation and communication in the Life Sciences. [3 units]
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LIFESCI 2N03: Human Nutrition for Life Sciences
Basic principles of human nutrition, including the interaction between nutrients and physiological processes that impact health and disease risk. [3 units]
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LIFESCI 3L03: Laboratory Methods in Life Sciences
Students develop advanced skills in experimental design, research methodologies, data analysis, and the communication of research information in the Life Sciences. [3 units]
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LIFESCI 2G03: Genes, Genomes and Society
An introduction to genetics that explores the application of genetics and genomics research in our world, from single organisms to ecological systems and from evolution to genetic engineering. [3 units]
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LIFESCI 2D03: Behavioural Processes
An examination of the concepts that underpin animal behaviour and an illustration of how selection pressures have operated to produce the diversity of behaviour that humans and other animals share. [3 units]
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