Course Identification

Biology module: Reconstructing biology
20186091

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Benny Shilo, Dr. Michal Haskel Ittah
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Course Schedule and Location

2018
First Semester
Tuesday, 13:00 - 14:45, WSoS, Rm 5
31/10/2017

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; 1.00 points

Comments

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Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

20
For students in the Rothschild-Weizmann program only

Language of Instruction

Hebrew

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

60%
20%
20%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

Syllabus

The course will begin with an extended scientific lecture. In the following five sessions, the lecture will be broken down into parts, and for each part the methodology and logic will be discussed in detail. For the last meeting the students will be asked to prepare a list of questions and suggestions for future experiments.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

  1. Share and discuss their experience of thrills and dilemmas of doing modern biological research.
  2. Discuss the different aspects of the methodology and logic while conducting a biological research.
  3. Describe the real process of carrying out scientific research, rather than only to the final conclusions that they normally find in textbooks.

Reading List

  1. "Deconstructing" scientific research: a practical and scalable pedagogical tool to provide evidence-based science instruction.
  2. Clark IE, Romero-Calder?n R, Olson JM, Jaworski L, Lopatto D, Banerjee U. PLoS Biol. 2009 Dec;7(12):e1000264. Epub 2009 Dec 22. No abstract available.
  3. PMID: 20041028

Website

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