[{"Course code":"P000122","Version":1,"English name":"Comparative Animal Physiology - How animals work and why they work the way they do","Higher education credits":3.0,"Syllabus":"Finalized by: FUN, 2024-11-05","Syllabus approved":"2024-11-05","Level within study regulation":"Third cycle","Grading scale":"Pass \/ Failed","Language":"Swedish","Entry requirements":"PhD-students in biology, veterinary medicine, medicine, pharmacology, biomedicine, animal science, or similar.","Objectives":"- Comparative aspects of aerobe and anaerobe metabolism, biochemical adaptation, e.g. adaptation to hypoxia\/anoxia, temperature, anhydrobiosis, hibernation\n- Living in air or water - what are the differences?\n- Respiration, respiratory pigments, circulation, osmoregulation, execration, muscles and movement, nervous system and sensory physiology in different species with focus on vertebrates\n- Scaling - the effects of body size\n- To live in extreme environments, e.g. extreme temperatures, high elevation, large depths (high pressure), diving etc","Content":"The course is carried out with lectures and seminars. The course is mainly given as campus teaching with the possibility of participation via zoom\/video. Invited lecturers will in some cases lecture via Zoom. Lectures and seminars are held once a week every two weeks.","Examination formats":"Approved written exam consisting of larger essay questions. Active participation in at least 75% of the seminars. \r\n- If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.\r\n\r\n- The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.\r\n\r\n- If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.\r\n\r\n- For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n","Organisation":[{"code":"720","Organisation":"Department of Animal Biosciences "}],"Other information":"\r\n- The right to participate in teaching and\/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.\r\n\r\n- If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n"}]