MSA E-Learning

This course focuses on what makes children’s literature for children. The students will address questions such as, what are the defining features of children’s literature? What makes it for children rather than for adults? How does its intended audience shape its form? How do its form and style—including its illustrations—shape its content?

This module aims to provide the student with a comprehensive guide to the revolutionary management support system technologies, and how they can be used for better decision making. The module presents the sue of modelling and simulation in the decision process then provides an in depth survey of the use of current IT technologies in DSS such as data warehousing, data mining, OLAP, knowledge management, artificial intelligence and expert system.

Biochemical reactions in health and disease are a perquisite to identify and manage health problems. The principal aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the molecular mechanisms fundamental to the life processes. An understanding of the way in which reactions take place at the cellular level will then provide a background against which the changes due to disease can be viewed. -------------------------------------------------------------------(((((((((((((Assessment Pattern )))))))))))) :: *In Course Tests and Quizzes: 10% *Midterm Exam : 10% *Practical Exam : 20% *Oral Exam: 20% *End of Semester Written Exam:40% #Total 100%

This course enables the student to understand how micro-organisms live and infect humans, and how 

humans respond to these infections in order to preserve health. This course presents basic microbial 

structure, function and genetics and principles of chemotherapy and drug resistance.

This unit focuses on English teaching methodology. It acquaints students with terms normally used in this area of study e.g. approach, method and technique. It gives them a brief account of the different approaches highlighting the main similarities and differences between them.

The unit examines the following points:

a)       Knowledge and skills an English language teacher needs to possess.

b)      Similarities and differences between different teaching contexts

c)      Similarities and differences between the different teaching approaches.

d)      Principles of English language teaching.

This module aims to covers the factors necessary for successful management of information systems development or enhancement projects. Both technical and behavioral aspects of project management are applied within the context of an information systems development project. The module strikes a balance between both the mechanics of project management and the human factors involved. Software tools for project tracking and monitoring are utilized through out the module.

This course is to emphasize the usefulness of molecular and genetic tools in the diagnosis of diseases. The course explains the impact of genetic polymorphism in altering the response to therapeutic drugs. The course also highlights the role of personalized medicine in tailoring therapeutic dosage to patients individually.

Course Specification:

Aims

• To increase the awareness of the students to the importance of drug design and gene therapy as a rapidly growing field of biotechnology.
• To understand the different methods used to analyze the huge amount of information that is being gathered about human gene sequences and genetic diseases.
• To emphasize upon the integration of basic and applied for creation of strategies for drug design.

Learning Outcomes:

The course outcomes for what students should know include:

1. What are the modern methods of the drug design;
2. How databases is used to model a pathways, cells, and diseases;
3. Mining methods to get the information about pathway or a disease by using databases;
4. Application of using modelling in drug design;
5. Different strategies of using RNA molecules in gene therapy;
6. The advantages, limitations, and dangers of using RNA in gene therapy;
7. Different strategies in the design of antiviral drugs, HIV will be used as model for testing these strategies;