Course syllabus for Project work in bioentrepreneurship

Projektarbete i bioentreprenörskap

Specific entry requirements

A grade of at least E in all courses at term 1-3, and at least 40 higher education credits from term 4-5.

Outcomes

The course aims to let the students apply program specific knowledge in a project group with the guidance of a supervisor within the business context of the life science sector.

Knowledge:
- The student should be able to plan, conduct, analyze and present a project within the Life Science area that necessitates in depth use of the student's own knowledge and skills as well as collaboration with other students
- The student should be able to collect relevant data
- The student should be able to understand litteratuer in the area of the project

Skills
- The student shall show independent, critical and creative thinking
- The student shall obtain knowledge of and experience with project management, information retrieval and presentation techniques

Approach
- The student will understand the value of time management and cooperation in the project group
- The student shall conduct the project work in an ethical manner

Content

Within the framework of a project within the life science filed the students in the group shall
a) make a project plan including a research question
b) gather background information
c) make relevant experiments, studies, interviews or other information gathering activites
d) analyze and discuss the results
e) write a report and make an oral and written presentation

Teaching methods

The task is performed in a project group of 2-4 students which puts high demands on the students' ability to plan, coordinate and perform. Lectures / seminars on method issues will be given as support

At least once during the course the group shall present the ongoing work, methods, results and conclusions to other groups and tutors. These presentations are mandatory

UBE/LIME will support the academic aspects of the project. Contact between group and tutor will to a large part be based on Ping-Pong or other web based systems

The project may contain litterature- and background studies, interviews and other forms of information gathering.

Contact between the project groups and the supervisors will to a large extent be through the web based programme Ping-Pong.

Examination

The main examination will be based on the final written report and the oral presentation.

Active participation in mandatory seminars is necessary but not graded.

The course director assesses if and, in that case, how absence can be compensated. Before the student has participated in all compulsory parts or compensated absence in accordance with the course director's instructions, the student's results for respective part will not be registered in LADOK.

Limited number of examinations or practical training sessions
Students who have not passed the regular examination are entitled to participate in five more examinations. If the student is not approved after four examinations, he/she is recommended to retake the course at the next regular course date, and may, after that, participate in two more examinations. If the student has failed six examinations/tests, no additional examination or new admission is provided.

The number of times that the student has participated in one and the same examination is regarded as an examination session. Submission of a blank examination is regarded as an examination. An examination for which the student registered but not participated in, will not be counted as an examination.

Transitional provisions

The course has been cancelled.

Other directives

Course evaluation will be made by handouts or web based questionnaires.

Literature and other teaching aids

• Robson, Colin, How to do a research project: a guide for undergraduate students, Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., cop. 2007 - xii, 159 s. ISBN: 978-1-4051-1489-9 (hardcover : alk. paper), LIBRIS-ID: 10340568, Table of contents only, *