Competencies and objectives

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Course context for academic year 2023-24

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Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : To read and understand texts in English.
  • CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
  • CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences

  • CG25 : Identify the determinants for health in the population: genetic; sex and lifestyle dependent; demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural.
  • CG31 : Know, critically assess and know how to use clinical and biomedical information sources to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific and health information.
  • CG36 : Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem solving, following the scientific method.
  • CG37 : Acquire basic training for research activity.
  • CG7 : Understand and discern the normal structure and function of the human body, at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organic and systems level, in the different stages of life and in both sexes.
  • CG9 : Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of the disease on the structure and function of the human body.

 

Specific competences:>>Module I: Morphology, structure and function of the human body

  • CE1.02 : Understand biomolecules, metabolism and metabolic regulation and integration.
  • CE1.06 : Understand the information, expression and gene regulation.
  • CE1.07 : Understand the mechanisms of inheritance.
  • CE1.09 : Understand the morphology, structure, and function of the skin, blood, circulatory, digestive, locomotor, reproductive, excretory, and respiratory apparatuses andsystems; endocrine system, immune system and central and peripheral nervous system.
  • CE1.11 : Understand homeostasis and the mechanisms of adaptation to the environment.
  • CE1.12 : Handling of lab material and basic laboratory techniques.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

 

To understand the different inheritance patterns of genetic diseases.
Acquire the ability to interpret family trees and practical cases of hereditary diseases, oriented towards genetic counselling.
Understand the structure, function and regulation of genes and the human genome.
Knowledge of the genetic structure of populations and their evolution.
Encourage a critical spirit and the ability to discuss and present scientific results and conclusions.
  • To understand the different inheritance patterns of genetic diseases.
  • Acquire the ability to interpret family trees and practical cases of hereditary diseases, oriented towards genetic counselling.
  • Understand the structure, function and regulation of genes and the human genome.
  • Knowledge of the genetic structure of populations and their evolution.
  • Encourage a critical spirit and the ability to discuss and present scientific results and conclusions.

 

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24

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General

Code: 27214
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: PHYSIOLOGY, GENETICS AND MICROBIOLOGY
    Area: GENETICS
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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