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Course Description

The immune system encompasses a broad, highly interactive network of cells, tissues, and anatomical structures that protects us from infection and cancer, yet it can also induce autoimmune disease. This course will serve as a primer to understand the intricate mechanisms of the immune system to appreciate the balance between health and disease that governs our daily lives. The course follows the route of a pathogen, first encountering the innate immune system before being handed off to the more complicated adaptive immune system. The birth and roles of chief cellular players will be discussed as well along with key signaling pathways. With this knowledge, the course culminates in an appreciation of how these systems can be dysregulated and cause allergies/hypersensitivity.

Learner Outcomes

When you complete the course successfully, you will be able to:

  • Summarize key cellular components of the immune response.
  • Distinguish the function of innate/natural and adaptive immune systems.
  • Recall how the key antigen recognition molecules (TCR, BCR) arise from genetic recombination, and how the specificity of the immune repertoire is shaped.
  • Discuss the role of inflammation during infection, autoimmunity, and cancer.
  • Illustrate how cytokine activity affects cell signaling and function.
  • Predict how the immune system plays a role in the resistance to infection, induction of allergies, autoimmunity, and cancer.

Microcredential(s)

This course applies toward the Advanced Cancer Biology Discovery and Biomedical Sciences Endeavor digital badges.

     

What FAES Learners are Saying

“The instructor was clearly passionate about the topics which made me more interested in it. I enjoyed that he encouraged us to take breaks and absorb the material. The powerpoints were very well done as well” - FAES Learner

Textbook Information

A textbook is available for this course. 

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Prerequisites

Familiarity with cell biology. 

If you are unsure that you meet the prerequisite requirements, please contact registrar@faes.org and provide information about your course of interest and background knowledge.

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Section Title
Basic Principles of Immunology and Hypersensitivity
Type
Online Asynchronous
Dates
Jun 11, 2025 to Jul 29, 2025
Total Cost (Includes $75 non-refundable technology fee per course when applicable)
Eligible Discounts Can Be Applied at Checkout (2 Credits) $775.00
Potential Discount(s)
Available for Academic Credit
2 Credit(s)
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