This course, along with its companion IMM1201H, focuses on developing core competencies and skills for first-year graduate-level scientists. In this course, these include planning, cultivating professional relationships, professional development, and scientific communication.

This course focuses on developing core competencies and skills for first-year graduate-level scientists through advancing their understanding of research in Immunology in accordance with scientific methodology. Students will critically appraise scientific articles, design, and analyze scientific experiments, and develop the core skills of scientific communication and data literacy.

This course will provide students with an opportunity to advance their understanding of the emerging interdisciplinary research in Neuroimmunology. Topics covered include neural regulation of immune cells and lymphoid organs, and the reciprocal immune mediated regulation of the central and peripheral nervous system. An in-depth analysis of microglial cells, meningeal immunity, as well as peripheral immunity will be discussed in the context of cancer, allergy, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative diseases.

The Immunology Preprint Journal Article Review Club prepares trainees to thoroughly read preprint articles and critically evaluate the articles' merit and scientific contributions to the field of immunology as well as identify flaws and limitations in the respective study.

This online elective course provides trainees with an environment to develop confidence in public speaking and presenting experimental data in its most unedited form. The course focuses on presentations of preprint article in the field of immunology. Immunology graduate students, in the PhD program, of any year are encouraged to participate and upon enrolment will sign up to present a preprint article of their choice at least once, but preferentially more often, throughout the duration of the course. After the presentation, the presenting student will provide a ranking of the preprint article from 1 to 5 (5 being the best score) for scientific rigor, significance to the field, and novelty. These parameters guide a group discussion by all participating trainees to provide feedback and additional comments.

Each presenting trainee will write a preprint digest of approx. 2 to 3 pages for the preprint article they presented. This digest will contain the title of the presented, up to 3 keywords aligning with the research field, the main findings of the manuscript (approximately 1 page), limitations, significance and novelty to the respective area of immunology (approximately 1 to 2 pages). Careful feedback will be provided by the group and the course coordinator on the wording in this digest.

This is a required core course for the Critical Information Policy Studies (CIPS) concentration, and introduces the theoretical, instrumental, and applied uses of information and informational processes in the development of policy across public and private sector domains.

The course examines the social, institutional, political, legal, and economic implications associated with the design, structure, and implementation of information processes and systems, with an emphasis on how policy shapes information practices and embodies power relations between organizations and individuals.

We frame our discussions of these issues in the context of emerging information technologies, modalities, and the contemporary policy debates that surround them. Focal issues include: the politics, ethics, and values of information; information as an economic phenomenon; the institutional structure of knowledge and cultural production; and the role of information professionals in all of these activities.

This course can be used to fulfil the "Critical Perspectives" Professional Requirement.

This course discusses fundamental perspectives and skills necessary for sound technical judgment about the place of information and communication technologies in contemporary society. Critical analysis of the design fabrication, deployment, use, and maintenance of information systems and services. Analysis of modeling, architecture, implementation, inclusive access, modularity, life-cycle, and interoperability. Use of and familiarity with programming languages, databases, interfaces, interactive technologies. Critical methods and analytic techniques from Science and Technology Studies and related disciplines.

This course can be used to fulfil the "Technical" Professional Requirement.

Experiential, participatory workshop to integrate the skills, perspectives, and knowledge introduced in the other core courses. The intention of the workshops is to broaden your exposure to other areas; we encourage students to go outside of their comfort zone. Students will be working in groups.