FaF:FAEK1_12 General Ecology and Ecology of - Course Information

FAEK1_12 General Ecology and Ecology of Human Health

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching

Guaranteed by

prof. PharmDr. Petr Babula, Ph.D.
Department of Natural Drugs – Departments – Faculty of Pharmacy

Prerequisites

FAKULTA(FaF) || OBOR(MUSFaF)
Basic knowledge of biology, chemistry, physiology.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 2 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/2, only registered: 0/2

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Pharmacy (programme FaF, M-FARMA)

Course objectives

General ecology: Lectures include overview of definitions in general ecology, its relationship to other science departments, its link to pharmaceutical education, research and practice.It also involves basic terms and their definitions.

Ecology of human health includes basic legislative of ecology, characteristics of factors negatively affecting human health. It involves factors of natural and anthropologic origin, which influence the quality of human health and possible consequences of interference of adverse factors in human health.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of ecology within syllabus, taking into account the impact of the environment on human health.

Syllabus

• Lectures:
  1. Introduction to ecology. Basic terminology. Methods of ecology.
  2. Organisms and the environment. Introduction to questions.
  3. Species interactions. Population. The population Dynamics. Interspecific competition. Predation, Decomposers and detritivores. Parasitism and disease. Symbiosis and mutualism. Abundance.
  4. Human and ecosystems.
  5. Heavy metals as pollutants of the environment and their effect on human health I.
  6. Heavy metals as pollutants of the environment and their effect on human health II.
  7. Organic pollutants of the environment and their effect on human health I.
  8. Organic pollutants of the environment and their effect on human health II.
  9. Pharmaceutics as contaminants of the environment I.
  10. Pharmaceutics as contaminants of the environment II.
  11. Pharmaceutics as contaminants of the environment III.
  12. Lecture on requested topic I.
  13. Lecture on requested topic II.
  

Literature

recommended literature
• Laštůvka, Z., Krejčová, P. Ekologie. Vydavatelství Konvoj, Brno, 2000. ISBN 8085615932. info

not specified
• Hajn, V. Ekologie člověka. Olomouc, 1999. ISBN 8070679638. info

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Passing lectures, knowledge of the subject within the syllabus.

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