310157 (v.1) Biotechnology 631

Area:	School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Exploration of the biotechnology industry, including traditional forms and recent developments in biotechnology. Examination of how biological processes can be harnessed to perform or supplement technical processes, including their role in developing renewable and sustainable systems for agriculture and industry. Overview of the modern biotechnology industry and applications of biopharmaceuticals, transgenics, genomics, proteomics, and monoclonal antibody technology, DNA chips as analytical and diagnostic tools, and rational drug design. Differences and similarities of the biotechnology industry in developed and developing countries are examined. Principles for objective assessment of positive or negative claims about biotechnology, approaches to decision-making, analysis of arguments about scientific topics, and to the development of clear and precise skills for writing scientific and business-related documents.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External