COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUSTAFA YAVUZ ERGÜN

Offered to

M.Sc.Biochemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Ph.D in Biochemistry

Course Objective

How radicals causing toxic effect form and the dismutation reactions occuring against this toxic effect will be enlightened by discussing permanent damages, degenerative diseases and ageing periods which occur in organism in the case of imbalance between radicals and defence system although there is an antioxidant defence system on the purpose of scavenging these free radicals forming in metabolism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Barry Halliwell and John M. C. Gutteridge, Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine, Oxford Science Publications, 2001.
Supplementary Book(s): Ruma Banerjee, Donald Becker, Martin Dickman, Vadim Gladyshev, Stephen Ragsdale, Redox Biochemistry, Wiley, 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Interactive narrative
3. Question-answer technique
4. Homework

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term, final and resit exams, active participation to the lecture, homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
e-mail: leman.tarhan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30 15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes