Your Information
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Title of Project: An Honors College undergraduate eminar course, HON120, entitled "Modern Biotechnology: Research and Careers"
Your Name: Wang, Ying
Email Address: wangyy@uncw.edu
School or College: College of Science and Engineering
College of Science and Engineering Academic Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Your Project
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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.


Please choose at least one audience: First-year students, Upper-division undergraduates
Please choose at least one project category: Assignment, Syllabus, Teaching Plan, Rubric, Course design
Please choose at least one Frame that your project incorporates: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation
File Upload: https://library.uncw.edu/system/files/webform/ilff_final_submission_form/42/HON120_Syllabus_2021.pdf
What does the "U" in UNCW stand for?: university
Submission date: 2021-05-04