|
Week
Number
|
Week Beginning
|
Assessment schedule
|
Lecture
1
|
Lecture
2
|
Practical
|
|
1
|
20
July
|
|
Endocrinology
I: Hormones
|
Endocrinology
II: Determinants of hormone action
|
Intro
to unit & revision
|
|
2
|
27
July
|
Lab
book
|
Endocrinology
III: Cycles
|
Gender
I: Sexual differentiation
|
The
Male
|
|
Assignment
topics allocated
|
|
3
|
3
August
|
Lab
book
|
Gender
II: Sexual maturation
|
Gonads
& gametes
|
The
Female
|
|
4
|
10
August
|
Group
assignment proposal due 14 August 4:00pm
|
Gamete
transport & fertilization
|
Pregnancy
I: Implantation & placentation
|
Gonads
& Gametes
|
|
5
|
17
August
|
Lab
book
|
Pregnancy
II: Placental endocrinology
|
Pregnancy
III: Fetal growth & development
|
Placenta
|
|
6
|
24
August
|
|
No
lecture
|
No
lecture
|
No
lab
|
|
7
|
31
August
|
Lab
book
|
Pregnancy
IV: Monitoring fetal wellbeing
|
Pregnancy
V: Maternal adaptations
|
Fetal
Growth & Development
|
|
Mid
semester break 1 week
|
|
8
|
14
September
|
Group
assignment - individual written component due 14 September
4:00pm
|
Pregnancy
VI: Birth & lactation
|
No
lecture
|
History
of Perinatal Loss
|
|
9
|
21
September
|
Lab
book
|
Biology
of reproductive cancers
|
Fertility
& Infertility
|
Birth
& Lactation
|
|
10
|
28
September
|
Lab
book
|
Assisted
Reproductive Technology
|
Sexually
transmitted infections
|
Fertility
Control
|
|
11
|
5
October
|
|
Reproductive
ageing I. Female biology
|
Reproductive
ageing II. Male biology
|
No
lab (group work)
|
|
12
|
12 October
|
Lab
book and Group assignment - group presentation
|
Reproductive
Ageing III. Evolutionary and cultrual aspects
|
Population
growth
|
Assignment
Presentations
|
|
13
|
19
October
|
Group
assignment - group presentation
|
No
lecture (Talk prep)
|
Exam
information & 3rd year options
|
Assignment
Presentations
|