Please describe your project
The goal of this project is to design a one-credit hour course to introduce modern biotechnology to the undergraduate students from the Honors College of UNCW. It is often challenging to choose materials for traditional lectures in an introductory biotechnology course. Biotechnology is highly inter-disciplinary by nature, involved in a broad spectrum of research areas and applications, and characterized with fast-evolving technology development. In addition, the HON120 classes are constituted of students at all levels from freshmen to seniors with very different background knowledge. The information literacy framework helps to solve the existing challenges in this course. In this project, the course is designed to facilitate student-driven and research-based learning. The course design emphasizes all six frames of information literacy and the students' metaliterate learner roles in their research project.