Course Catalog 2007-2008

BIO-2906 SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, 5 cr
Seminar in Biotechnology

Courses persons responsible
Matti Karp
Jaakko Puhakka

Lecturers
Matti Karp
Jaakko Puhakka

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Seminar - - - 2 h/week 2 h/week -
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
The seminar aims at advancing the knowledge in biotechnology and focuses on the understanding of the structure and content of scientific publications, in writing a literature review and oral presentation skills in English.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. The student familiarizes with special issues related to environmental biotechnology, tissue engineering, computational systems biology or biomeasurements.       

Requirements for completing the course
Participation in seminars (at least 80 %), accepted written and oral presentation and acting as an opponent for another student.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Participation in seminars, accepted written and oral presentation and acting as an opponent.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Additional information about prerequisites
    Sufficient studies in major subject. The number of the students may be limited.

    Remarks

    Students independent literature search and writing the literature review according to the seminar instructions (see the institutes web page). The written review needs to be approved by the instructor prior to oral presentation in given schedule.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 20 %
    - Distance learning: 0 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 80 %

  • Description of the course implementation from ICT point of view

    • The student will have 2-3 personal meetings with the instructor.

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Seminar reports 133
    Total sum 133

    Correspondence of content
    5902043 Seminar in Biotechnology

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    Last modified 25.04.2007
    Modified bySaila Kallioinen