Unit name | Entrepreneurship and Professional Development |
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Unit code | BIOLM0036 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Dr. Ford |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Biological Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Life Sciences |
This unit will introduce students to the professional and entrepreneurial aspects of bioinformatics. These include presenting results (oral presentations, written reports, grants and applications, etc.), planning and execution of entrepreneurial initiatives, and ethical and deontological issues with bioinformatic data. The students will have opportunity to plan, develop and implement their own personal initiatives in the context of the private sector, as well as the skills required to disseminate the outcomes of bioinformatic analyses.
The aim of this unit will be to:
The Learning Outcomes (LOs) for this unit are:
A: Knowledge and Understanding:
B: Intellectual Skills/Attributes:
The unit will be delivered through a mixture of short lectures followed by individual exercises with computers. Blackboard will be used engage students with the unit content.
Summative assessment will be provided on tasks, each of them designed around learning objectives. 50% of the marks will come from an entrepreneurial component of the unit, and the other 50% of the marks will be equally split between the tasks belonging to the professional component of the unit.
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