Advanced Biotechnology: Global Perspectives

Year 2: Spring semester, 2 credits

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This course is designed as a capstone experience in which students will integrate and apply knowledge and skills gained in M.S. in Biotechnology Program to achieve a new level of synthesis and depth of understanding about an important problem in biotechnology today. Each offering of Advanced Biotechnology focuses on three "hot topics" of global importance. This perspective is meant to broaden students' understanding of ethical issues in international biotechnology and awareness of opportunities for intellectual collaboration and entrepreneurship.

Goals of the Course
To successfully complete the Advanced Biotechnology: Global Perspectives, each student will:

• Participate in classroom activities focusing on three three biotechnology areas of global relevance
   
• Complete an independent research project on a topic in global biotechnology

For the global research project, you will:

• Define an important problem in global biotechnology
   
  
• Identify appropriate questions to ask
   
  
• Determine the most effective resources to research the problem
   
  
• Outline the research methods used
   
  
• Interpret and critically analyze results, observations and information
   
  
• Describe research findings clearly and concisely
   
  
• Recognize and articulate unanswered questions
   
  
• State obstacles and challenges facing the solution to the problem