| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 6 x 1 hour workshops |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 6 x 3 hour practical sessions |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 2 Hours Coursework Written report of experimental strategy, methods and results, in the form of a research article (Max. 2000 words). | 70% |
| Semester Assessment | Coursework Written handbook of bench protocols (Max. 2500 words). | 30% |
| Semester Assessment | Practical Assessment Presentation of selected practical work in thesis format (2500 word limit) | 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Continuous assessment, Resubmission of failed or missing work. | 60% |
| Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours Practical Exam | 40% |
On completion of this module, students should be able to.
1. Develop hypotheses into a series of experimental procedures.
2. Build novel experimental protocols from available literature
3. Implement experimental protocols
4. Report experimental protocols and research findings in appropriate formats.
This module provides an opportunity for students to acquire hands-on experience of biochemistry techniques. Through its restructuring, it will provide diverse learning and teaching opportunities so that, on successful completion of this module, students are able to design and implement experimental strategies of a nature that would be expected of a biochemistry graduate.
The aim of this module is to give students the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills to enable them to understand, implement and devise experimental protocols. To this end, sessions will be provided that will allow students to take research questions, develop them into testable hypotheses, formulate such hypotheses into a series of experiments, devise appropriate experimental protocols, and implement those experiments.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Practical work will involve calculations using acquired data. |
| Communication | The production of balanced practical reports. Listening skills for the workshops and subsequent discussion in practical classes. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Outside the formal contact hours, students will be expected to research materials, manage time and meet deadlines. |
| Information Technology | Accessing the web for information sources and using databases to find primary literature. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will gain confidence in their ability to evaluate biological problems and objectively assess the quality of proposed solutions. |
| Problem solving | Practical classes will allow students to gain experience in designing, executing, interpreting data and writing-up assessed biochemical and chemical experiments. |
| Research skills | Students will research topics beyond the depth and scope of the provided material using both directed and independent study. Information from a variety of sources will be the object of scrutiny and comment. Practical classes will allow the development of key biological research skills at an early stage of their academic careers. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will gain experience of issues related to the planning, execution and reporting of experiments. They will be able to find, understand, modify and utilize existing protocols from the literature, and report methodologies as appropriate for a variety of media. |
| Team work | Students will work in pairs/small groups during practical sessions. They will need to discuss their experimental design and work effectively as a small team in practical classes. |
This module is at CQFW Level 5