PHY2032 Endocrine control systems

Teaching Approach PHY2032 uses three modes for delivery of study material:
1. Online modules
2. Practical classes
3. Workshops
All three modes are examinable

Online modules
Instead of the traditional three face-to-face lectures per week, we have redesigned this unit to have two online modules per week. These online modules consist of a short series of specially recorded short videos, as well as activities to help you consolidate your understanding, and should take 90 minutes to complete each one. We have decided to implement online modules instead of traditional face-to-face lectures, as it allows all students to study at their own pace. It is expected that you keep up to date with these online modules, as the content will be expanded upon in class, providing you with opportunities to engage, confirm and further your understanding. The online modules content will be assessed at the beginning of each face-to-face Workshop and Practical Class via a short MCQ quiz in your designated teams.

Workshops
The workshops are designed to be collaborative, student-centred learning opportunities. Each workshop will have activities designed for you to demonstrate knowledge, revise content and further your understanding in real life applications. Workshops are designed for you to interact and develop teamwork skills, relationships and to learn from successful completion of activities. It is absolutely critical for you to maintain pace with your online modules so you have the ability to complete the workshop activities in class.

Attendance In each workshop
Please bring your student ID card as it will be scanned to mark attendance. Failure to do so at the time of the workshop cannot be rectified later and is considered as absence from the workshop. Students who miss their workshop without an approved special consideration, and do not attend another workshop session in that week will receive zero mark for that week's assessment. Further, students repeatedly changing workshop classes will disrupt the flow and organisation with the unit, this will be dealt with on a case by case basis. Failure to attend workshops will result in a deduction of marks in an exponential scale, this will be elaborated in the first workshop.

Practical Course
Practical work is an essential part of a course in Physiology because it gives first-hand experience of some of the properties in isolated living tissues, and various responses of whole animals, including human subjects. It illustrates and complements material covered in the lectures, gives practice at observing, measuring and recording with the techniques of physiology, and gives some idea of the difficulties and variation found in studying living processes. The skills obtained in collecting and analysing data and drawing conclusions from your experiments will provide a foundation for further scientific studies and help you make more informed decisions about scientific matters that affect your daily life.

Attendance in each practical class. Please bring your student ID card to the practicals as it will be scanned to mark attendance. Failure to do so at the time of the practical class cannot be rectified later and is considered as absence from the practical. Further, failure to attend practical will result in a deduction of marks in an exponential scale, this will be elaborated in the first workshop.