Undergraduate Course: Tissue and Cancer Stem Cells (DEBI10035)

Course Outline
School	School of Biological Sciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Tissue and Cancer Stem Cells will cover the topic of how stem cells build and maintain organs in healthy organisms, focussing on well-studied paradigmatic systems and how aberrant stem cell-like cells behave in neoplasia.
Course description	Tissue and Cancer Stem Cells aims to give students an up to date exposure to developments in understanding how stem cells are deployed to create and maintain tissues and organs and how these processes can be subverted in cancer.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 26
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 24, Revision Session Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 71 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Essay - 100%
Feedback	Lectures with discussion sessions for a small group of students gives the maximum opportunity for students to ask and answer questions related to the lecture topics, reinforcing learning outcomes.
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Increased understanding of how stem cells are used to develop and maintain tissues. Increased understanding of how stem cells become dysregulated in cancer. Ability to critically evaluate scientific papers.