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This course includes a laboratory, fieldwork or other component which you are required to attend in-person. In exceptional circumstances, exemptions to this requirement may be given. You can apply for an exemption by e-mail to the course coordinator, explaining why your personal circumstances prevent you from turning up for the lab. If your application is approved, the course coordinator will provide access to alternative learning and assessment items. The decision of the course coordinator can be appealed by writing to the Interim Associate Dean – Academic (Undergraduate), Dr Nichola Tyler (nichola.tyler@vuw.ac.nz). If we are unable to offer a course component that requires in-person attendance, for example due to a rise in COVID-19 alert levels, all students will be exempt from the requirement to attend in-person and alternative learning and assessment activities will be supplied.
 
This course builds on the fundamental genetic concepts you learned in 200-level Genetics. By the end of the course, you should be capable of explaining classical and contemporary methods of genetic analysis and their application in genetic model systems.  Your new knowledge base will be applied to human genetics, both at the population and individual levels, with the ultimate goal of gaining an improved understanding of the genetic basis of human health and disease.
 

This course typically has four hours of lectures per week.  In addition to lectures, there are weekly 6-hour lab sessions (including a 1-hour break) during weeks 5 -8 of the trimester; lab streams run on Wednesdays and Thursdays.