Syllabus academic year 2008/2009
(Created 2008-07-17.)
SENSORY BIOLOGYEXTN30

Higher education credits: 15. Grading scale: UV. Level: A (Second level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in English. EXTN30 overlap following cours/es: TEK083. Optional for: N4. Course coordinator: Dan-E. Nilsson, Dan-E.Nilsson@cob.lu.se, Inst f cell- och organismbiologi. Prerequisites: TEK285 Chemistry – from General Chemistry to the Molecules of Life, TEK295 Biology of the Cell and TEK015 Human Physiology. The number of participants is limited to 5 Selection criteria: Credits remaining for the degree. Assessment: Written examination. Home page: http://www.cob.lu.se.

Contents
The course deals with vision and other types of photoreception, olfaction, taste, hearing, equilibrium, mechanoreception, pressure reception, electroreception, magnetoreception and senses for temperature and heat radiation. All senses are studied comparatively across the animal kingdom. A range of methods in physiology, ethology and human psychophysics are taught and used during the course. The course is divided into sections covering different levels of organisation:

Towards the end of the course, each student will carry out a major practical project specialised in one area of sensory biology. The project results will be discussed at a full-day symposium organised at a field station.

Literature
According to a list established by the department, available at least five weeks before the start of the course, see the web-page for Undergraduate Studies in Biology.