BIO415 Genetic Engineering
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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
| T | P | |||||||||
| BIO415 | Genetic Engineering | 3 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Prerequisite | Senior Standing | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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| Lecturer | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Currently not available |
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| Assistant | Assistant E-mail | |||||||||
| Course Objectives | The goal of this course is to introduce students principles, tools and methodology of genetic engineering | |||||||||
| Textbook | An Introduction to Genetic Engineering 3r ed. Desmond S. T. Nicholl, Cambridge | |||||||||
| Additional Literature | ||||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
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| Teaching Methods | Lecturing. Problem solving. Classroom discussions | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | |||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | Introduction | |||||||||
| Week 2 | Background | Chapter 2 | ||||||||
| Week 3 | Working with nucleic acids | Chapter 3 | ||||||||
| Week 4 | Working with nucleic acids | Chapter 3 | ||||||||
| Week 5 | The Tools: Restriction Enzymes and polymerases | Chapter 4 | ||||||||
| Week 6 | Host cells and vectors | Chapter 5 | ||||||||
| Week 7 | Host cells and vectors | Chapter 5 | ||||||||
| Week 8 | Cloning Strategies | Chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 9 | Cloning Strategies | Chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 10 | PCR | Chapter 7 | ||||||||
| Week 11 | Selection Screening and Analysis of recombinants | Chapter 8 | ||||||||
| Week 12 | Selection Screening and Analysis of recombinants | Chapter 8 | ||||||||
| Week 13 | Genetic Engineering in action: Human genome | Chapter 10.4 | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Genetic engineering and biotechnology | Chapter 11.3 | ||||||||
| Week 15 | Review | |||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 | 1,2,3,4,5 | |
| Semester Evaluation Compenents | ||||
| In-term exam | 1 | 30 | 1,2,3,4 | |
| Presentation | 1 | 20 | 6 | |
| Participation | 10 | 1,2,3,4,5 | ||
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Lecture Hours | 3 | 14 | 42 | Home Study | 4 | 15 | 60 | |||
| In-term exam study | 20 | 1 | 20 | Final exam study | 14 | 2 | 28 | |||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 15/02/2021 | |||||||||
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