Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Search for, identify, and critically assess sound scientific manuscripts and sources.
2. Work effectively in groups to integrate and present data from various scientific sources.
3. Produce written works that synthesize information they have gathered.
4. Present their findings in both lay and scientific language in either a scientific poster or oral presentation format.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will have the basic understanding of immunological and hormonal mechanisms that integrate and impart sex differences in diseases with an emphasis on those that associate with the urogenital tract.
2. Students will gain a basic knowledge of recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of diseases exhibiting sex differences.
3. Students will be able to apply the concepts acquired in critical assessment and identification of knowledge gaps in immunologically driven sex differences in disease pathology and outcomes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to test hypotheses, generate data, and interpret results spanning the fields of biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, immunology, pharmacology, and microbiology.
2. Conduct, analyze, and interpret their own research, and discuss the significance of the findings within the context of respective fields.
3. Justify and support an experimental plan by searching through and scrutinizing the available scientific literature of the topic in question.
4. Navigate human anatomical specimens, identifying different tissues, organs and systems, while discussing links between their structure and function.
5. Perform laboratory experiments using appropriate technique, with emphasis on efficiency and multitasking.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply understanding of physiology and pharmacology principles to an experimental laboratory setting of neuroscience and cardiorespiratory physiology.
2. Develop qualitative and quantitative research methodologies including data acquisition and analysis to effectively test a hypothesis, generate data, and interpret results using appropriate statistics, and data analysis including graphing and curve fitting.
3. Work collaboratively in a group to effectively design, execute, analyze, and present experimental data.
4. Discuss the significance of their findings in the form of informal reports, formal laboratory report in a defined format, scientific poster, and oral presentation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Accumulate relevant scientific evidence through scholarly review of the neuroimmunology literature and critically evaluate the content as it relates to the proposed topic.
2. Identify gaps in knowledge and/or paradoxes and/or obstacles in the collected neuroimmunology literature with regard to limitations in resolving fundamental questions in the specific area under study.
3. Communicate (verbal and written) their knowledge, insights and a conceptual framework to their peers and a lay audience; providing justification/rationale that investigation of the critical issues they have identified provide a constructive strategy to advance the field of neuroimmunology.
4. Capitalize on the power of group dynamics, to support and advocate for team members, and manage diverse opinions and personalities.
5. Provide thoughtful, logical and innovative questions to the projects proposed by other groups.