Course syllabus for Project in Bioentrepreneurship for exchange students
Projekt inom bioentreprenörskap för utbytesstudenter
Essential data
Specific entry requirements
The student should have: -A good command of English. -At least two years of study at a study programme in health care, biomedicine, biology, cellular and molecular biology, pharmaceutics, chemistry, medicine or biotechnology.
Outcomes
The course intends to give the students the opportunity to, through a project work, obtain in-depth knowledge under supervision in the area of bioentrepreneurship. Upon completion of the course, the student should within a for bioentrepreneurships relevant field: be able to plan, carry out, analyse and present a project that requires advanced knowledge and skills be able to assimilate knowledge about, and experience of, project management, information retrieval and analysis in addition to the project specific knowledge.
Content
In a project within Life Science, the student a should a) design a project description and a plan for the project; b) acquire background knowledge about the area; c) carry out necessary information retrieval; d) with a basis in the projects goals analyse the results and e) present these both orally and in a written format. The students will carry out the project in collaboration with a company/organisation within the Life Science industry.
Teaching methods
The student will be supervised by a teacher from KI and in the case this is relevant, a company representative as well. Subject-specific guidance is provided by the client, where relevant, while support for the scientific work is provided by the course provider. On at least one occasion during the project, the student should report his project situation in a written report or with an oral presentation.
Examination
The main form for examination is it final written report, but the oral presentation will also be part of the examination.. To get the grade Pass on the course, at least the grade pass is required on the written report as well as the oral presentation. To get the grade pass with distinction on the course, the grade pass with distinction is required on the written report and at least the grade pass on the oral presentation.