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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - BSC5420
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-04-20
- Department: Biology
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 120901000
- Contact Person: RS Pollenz
- Phone: 9741596
- Email: pollenz@cas.usf.du
- Prefix: BSC
- Number: 5420
- Full Title: Genetic Engineering and Recombinant DNA Technology
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Gen Eng DNA Tech
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: PCB3023, PCB3063, either PCB3023L or PCB3063L
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- Course Description: This lecture-based course will use a problem solving approach provide fundamental knowledge of scientific concepts and principles that form the basis of experimental methodologies in genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology for majors/nonmajors
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This graduate level (5000) course has been offered 5 times since the Spring 2003 semester and has become an integral part of the course work for the MS and PhD degrees in Biology for students specializing in cell biology and molecular biology. This cours
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This graduate-level course has serviced nearly all the incoming graduate students specializing in cell biology and molecular biology within the CMM Division of the Department of Biology since it was first offered in the spring of 2003. It has also been taken by numerous advanced undergraduate as well as post baccalaureate students who are preparing for advanced study in graduate and medical degree programs. The course currently is not required for incoming graduate students, but as various graduate "tracks" are developed within the CMM Division, this course will become one of four courses that make up a required core.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, the course has been offered 5 times and has had an average enrollment of 21 students (both graduate and advanced undergraduate)
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD degree in a biological science with laboratory experience in recombinant DNA technology and experimental methods in molecular biology.
- Objectives: The explosion of biotechnology over the past decade is truly remarkable. Even now in 2007, it is difficult to keep up with the new techniques and automation that allows the manipulate DNA sequences. However, behind all the technology and the various “kits” that allow complicated gene manipulations to be carried out in a matter of hours, are several less complicated concepts. The goal of this course is to explore the “basic techniques” of manipulating genes and proteins to provide the student sufficient background to design and interpret experiments dealing with genetic engineering.
- Learning Outcomes: It is expected that the student who successfully complete the course will have complied a database of experimental procedures as well the ability to design, carry out, and troubleshoot them as well as analyze the procedures that are detailed in scientific manuscripts. Assessment will be through applied, written examinations that require hypothesis testing and written descriptions of experimental paradigms using the various techniques discussed in the course.
- Major Topics: In this course students will be exposed to: 1) the use of restriction enzymes, plasmids, phage and viruses to generate recombinant DNA molecules, 2) generation and screening of libraries, 3) use and analysis of PCR techniques, 4) recombinant proteins expression and generation of antibodies, 5) modulation of gene regulation use siRNA and other techniques and 5) generation and analysis of transgenic animals.
- Textbooks: Recombinant DNA, (2007) James Watson et al., WH Freeman (3rd Edition) ISBN-10 071672866-4
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.