Handbook

PREREQUISITE: One of BIO1011, BIO1022, BMS1021, BMS1062

Recommended: a level one Chemistry unit or VCE Chemistry.

Lectures:
This is our main form of imparting the key concepts and features associated with understanding Immunology and is delivered as key themes associated with understanding the immune system. This is delivered by immunology academics with many years experience in the field. Lecture recordings and notes will be available from your IMM2011 Moodle site.

Pre-class online activity:
For each major theme, pre-class reading together with an online self-gauging quiz have been generate to assist students as each theme is addressed. The reading for these is based on designated chapters from the prescribed text for IMM2011.

Tutorials: Smaller group activities that allow greater interaction between students, reinforce key concepts, and allow students to gauge understanding through assessment tasks. Additionally, tutorial-based tasks also enable the development of important skills such as teamwork, writing, literature research, and oral presentations. Tutorials are not replacements for lectures. Tutorials are held every second week and alternate with the practical sessions.

Practical laboratory-based classes: Hands on approach to reinforce or demonstrate key concepts introduced through lectures or that are important in immunology. Enables laboratory skills and report writing to be developed through mentoring and feedback from demonstrators. Practicals are held every second week and alternate with the tutorial sessions.

You must complete a range of specified tutorial tasks including short essays and an oral presentation to successfully demonstrate performance of the related learning outcomes.

Where you fail the hurdle but would have otherwise achieved a mark of 45 or above, you will be awarded a mark of 45 and an NH (hurdle fail) for the unit.

Where you fail the hurdle and would also have failed the unit with a mark of 44 or below, you will be awarded your mark and an N grade for the unit.

• Applies to all offerings

• Applies to all offerings

• Applies to all offerings

• One 2-hour lecture;
• One hour pre-laboratory or pre-tutorial preparation;
• One 3-hour laboratory or tutorial class and
• Six hours of independent study per week.

You are required to provide a laboratory gown and safety glasses.  Additionally, fully enclosed footwear must be worn in laboratories.  Failure to wear appropriate personal protective equipment may result in exclusion from the laboratory class.

Abbas AK, Lichtman AH, and Pillai S. Basic Immunology (7th edition). Elsevier Saunders Publishers, 2024.

If you wish to read further, the following textbooks may be useful:

• Abbas AK, Lichtman AH, and Pillai, S. Cellular and Molecular Immunology (10th edition). Elsevier Saunders Publishers, 2021.
• Murphy K, Weaver C, and Berg L. Janeway’s Immunobiology (10th International Student Edition). Norton Publishers, 2022.