1. Bachelor’s degree (180 credits) or equivalent with a major in chemistry, biochemistry, biomedical technology, biomedical methods and technology, biomedical laboratory science, or in other areas of natural, medical, engineering sciences or technology of relevance to the programme with a minimum of 15 credits in chemistry and/or biochemistry.

2. The equivalent of English B, or English 6, in Swedish secondary school.

The aim of the course is for the student to develop their knowledge and understanding of the immune system and its function and organisation. The aim is further for the student to develop knowledge about immunological methods and biointerfaces at cellular and molecular level.

The course is based on cellular, molecular and biomedical immunology. The organisation and the function of the immune system will be described as well as different biointerfaces. The theoretical and practical tools for understanding applications of immunology in research, biomedicine and in the clinic will be discussed and described. Relevant and commonly used immunological methods will be presented, both theoretically and practically.

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

1. describe the organization of the immune system,
2. identify the cells and tissue in the immune system,
3. explain diseases within the immune system,
4. operate and justify the choice of appropriate methods for characterising different populations of cells and molecules of the immune system,
5. describe different biointerfaces within the immune system, and
6. apply biomedical methods and illustrate their relevance for biomedical technologies.

To reach learning outcomes 1-3 and 5, lectures, seminars and group discussions are used as learning activities. To stimulate the student’s active participation and reflection, independent laboratory work, oral presentations and written assignments will be used together with laboratory experiments for reaching learning outcome 4 and 6.

Learning outcomes 1-3 and 5 are examined through group discussions and a written individual home exam. To examine learning outcomes 4 and 6, the performance in the practical methodology part is assessed, together with oral presentations, written assignments and a written individual home exam. Detailed assessment criteria are available in the study instructions.

Right to re-examination
Students who fail the exam are given the opportunity to do two re-takes with the same course content and with the same requirements. The student also has the right to take the examination in the same course in the subsequent course according to the same rule. Examination and re-takes are carried out at the times specified in the course schedule.

Murphy K, Travers P, Walport M, (2011)Janeway´s Immunobiology, 8th edition. N. Y.: Garland Publishing Inc, pp. 887.

Scientific articles will be added.

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that ap-plied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.