Seminars in Human Biology

Code: BIO11478L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Biological Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Trabalho decente e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Inovação infraestrutura - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Parcerias e meios de implementação - Fortalecer os meios de implementação e revitalizar a parceria global para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Learning Goals

This curricular unit aims:
1. To report on main scientific advances in Human Biology, and the impact of their application in society, as well as associated issues of ethical nature.
2. To understand the main applications of Human Biology in Biomedicine, in Biological and Forensic Anthropology ando n other related topics.
3. Knowing the interactions with other areas, notably biochemistry.
4. To develop capacities in searching information based on modern technologies of communication and information.
Students who complete this course should: acquire an integrated perspective of Biology, and of the evolution of ideas and biological thought through time, such as to contextualize its changes and recent advances.

This course has an open program, according to research areas of faculty and researchers invited to participate. The classes / lectures take the form of seminars where they will address various topics that will highlight recent research in Human Biology and its interdisciplinarity.

Teaching Methods

Attendance lessons/lectures by professors and / or faculty / visiting researchers.
Reflection on current and emerging issues based on articles from specializes journals, previously distributed.
Moodle and audio-visual media will be used.
The evaluation of the course will include the presentation of two works by students, based on the critical approach to scientific articles on the issues raised by professor and/or visiting researchers. The papers will be presented and evaluated in writing and oral versions.