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From Board-Based Admission To Declaring Your Major in Life Sciences Programmes

The document discusses the curriculum design for the first year of Life Sciences programmes under the Broad-Based Admission system at a university. It outlines 6 programmes that students can declare as their major after the first year. In the first term, all students take the same core courses. In the second term, students take programme-specific courses to explore their interests before declaring a major. This allows flexibility and a broad foundation before specializing in a specific programme in the second and third years.

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From Board-Based Admission To Declaring Your Major in Life Sciences Programmes

The document discusses the curriculum design for the first year of Life Sciences programmes under the Broad-Based Admission system at a university. It outlines 6 programmes that students can declare as their major after the first year. In the first term, all students take the same core courses. In the second term, students take programme-specific courses to explore their interests before declaring a major. This allows flexibility and a broad foundation before specializing in a specific programme in the second and third years.

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From Board-based admission to

Declaring your major in Life


Sciences Programmes:

Overviews of the Year 1


Curriculum Design

Academic Counseling
5 August 2009
6 LSC Programmes under
Broad-Based Admission
{ Biochemistry
{ Biology (incl. Human Biology)
{ Cell & Molecular Biology
{ Environmental Science
{ Food & Nutritional Sciences
{ Molecular Biotechnology
Advantages of
Broad-Based Admission
y To allow flexibility to students upon
admission
y To explore their interests before selecting a
major programme
y To gain a broader foundation in Life
Sciences disciplines
Topic
Learning Experience under
Broad-Based Admission
• To take a set of mostly common, fundamental
courses in year 1.
• To declare a major programme after 1 year of study.
• To acquire strong academic counseling from
orientation to graduation.
• To prepare career life in sciences, health and
related fields, as well as in further postgraduate
studies.

• No quota is set for each of the life science programmes


Overviews:
From Board-based admission to Declaring your Major in LSC programmes

Admission

1st term Declare potential major


Year 1

2nd term

The end of 2nd term


Year 2 and 3
Yr.1-1st term Curriculum:
Same for all LSC students
First Term
BCH2030 Fundamentals of Biochemistry (3)
BIO2120 Cell Biology (3)
SCI2002 Basic Laboratory Techniques in Life Sciences (2)
SCI2000 Research & Communication Skills in Life Sciences (1)
Yr.1-2nd term Curriculum:
Programme specific requirements

Second Term

BCH2000 Frontiers in Biochemistry (2)


BIO2210 Ecology (3)
BIO2213 Ecology Lab (1)
BIO2310 General and Molecular Genetics (3)
BIO2313 Genetics Lab (1)
CMB0210 Literature Survey in CMB &
Scientific Communication (2)
CMB2100 Biology of Model Organisms for
CMB Research (2)
ENS2270 Introduction to Environmental
Science (3)
FNS2003 Food, Nutrition and Health (2)
MBT2000 Introduction to Molecular
Biotechnology (2)

achoose only ONE laboratory course from BIO2213, BIO2313


or BIO3413 (offered in year 2) for major requirement of BIO
Example of course selection:
Most likely BCH, maybe CMB or FNS
Second Term

BCH2000 Frontiers in Biochemistry (2)


BIO2210 Ecology (3)
BIO2213 Ecology Lab (1)
BIO2310 General and Molecular Genetics (3)
BIO2313 Genetics Lab (1)
CMB0210 Literature Survey in CMB &
Scientific Communication (2)
CMB2100 Biology of Model Organisms for
CMB Research (2)
ENS2270 Introduction to Environmental
Science (3)
FNS2003 Food, Nutrition and Health (2)
MBT2000 Introduction to Molecular
Biotechnology (2)

6 Units + 4 Units + 2 Units = 12 Units

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