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Welcome to Pathophysiology (PPH611S)!
In this 16-week course, you will explore how normal physiological processes become disrupted in illness and injury, with a strong focus on understanding why patients deteriorate rather than simply recognizing disease labels. The course builds progressively from cellular and tissue-level injury to inflammation, compensation, shock, metabolic failure, and genetic risk factors, providing a solid foundation for clinical reasoning in emergency care.

Through continuous assessment tasks and weekly learning activities, you will engage with both theoretical concepts and applied clinical scenarios to strengthen your ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate physiological disturbances. Emphasis is placed on linking underlying pathophysiology to patient presentation, vital sign changes, and patterns of clinical decline commonly encountered in prehospital and emergency settings.

This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and analytical skills needed to interpret complex physiological processes, recognize early signs of deterioration, and apply pathophysiological principles to real-world clinical decision-making. By the end of the course, you should be able to integrate cellular, systemic, metabolic, and compensatory mechanisms to better understand acute illness, injury, and patient outcomes in emergency medical care.

The aim with this Course is to instill in students a mindset, skills and knowledge to understand:

• Concepts, principles, history, current trends in settlements, shelter and integrated living environments
• Role of housing in society
• Statutory policy and planning frameworks and paradigms
• Housing delivery options
• Housing Development management
• Financing and property rights options
• Housing types and densities
• Housing product, norms and standards
• Management and maintenance of housing stock
• Housing needs assessment and post occupancy evaluation
• Consumer education and protection

The aim of the course is to prepare students in the field of Criminal Justice to carry out a study and to statistically analyse data in order to make appropriate decisions based on findings. The students will be introduced to research tools, methods, and techniques of scientific communication to disseminate information through reports, seminars and workshops.

This course focuses on equipping students with the knowledge and skills for application of principles of management in health service delivery and and project management.

Personal selling occurs when a company representative interacts directly with a customer or prospective customer to present information about a product or service. It is a process of developing relationships, discovering needs, matching the appropriate products with these needs, and communicating benefits through informing, reminding, or persuading. Preparation for a career in personal selling begins with the development of a personal philosophy or set of beliefs that provides guidance. To some degree, this philosophy is like the rudder that steers a ship. Without a rudder, the ship’s direction is unpredictable. Without a personal philosophy, the salesperson’s behavior also is unpredictable.

This course introduces students to basic laws of probability, continuous and discrete random variables, and special probability distributions. By the end of this module, students should be able to apply basic laws of probability and probability distributions in solving various biological and physical problems.