BCHM306-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Biochemical Pathology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

This course is designed to help you to understand the biochemistry underpinning disease (e.g. cancer), how diseases are diagnosed using biochemical markers (e.g. heart disease), mechanisms of cell and organ toxicity, and how toxic molecules can be used to our benefit (e.g. in cancer chemotherapy).

Prerequisites

BCHM253/BIOL253 and BCHM222, and 15 points from BCHM206, BCHM212/CHEM212. RP: BCHM202/BIOL231.

Restrictions

BCHM301, BCHM302

Recommended Preparation

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 10:00 Jack Erskine 340
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00 Meremere 526
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00 Ernest Rutherford 141
22 Jul - 28 Jul
5 Aug - 11 Aug
19 Aug - 25 Aug
16 Sep - 22 Sep
30 Sep - 6 Oct
14 Oct - 20 Oct

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Ian Shaw

Lecturers

Steven Gieseg and Vanessa Morris

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1 (Shaw) 20%
Assignment 2 (Gieseg/Morris) 20%
Exam 60%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $978.00

International fee $4,988.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Biological Sciences .

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  • BCHM306-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024