Department Of Biotechnology

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  CurriculumThis table demonstrates the curriculum accroding to academic year.

  1- 1	GENERAL CHEMISTRY I The General Chemistry(I) introduces the basic concepts of the properties, constitution, structure and the reaction of matters, which is essential in modern chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.
  1- 1	PRACTICAL ENGLISH The aim of the course is to help students develop basic English verbal skills in real life situations. The course will be co-taught by Korean and Native English instructors. Korean instructors will provide students with basic English structure, vocabulary, and expressions, and students will be encouraged to practice speaking English utilizing basic English structures. Students will further practice expressing themselves in English with native English instructors.
  1- 1	SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE 1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
  1- 1	STATISTICS(1) This course defines events and probabilities, conditional probabilities and independence to evaluate probabilities. Elementary probability distributions such as binomial distribution, geometric distribution, Poisson distribution, and normal distribution are also introduced. The concepts of sample distribution of the statistic and the central limit theorem are introduced. The statistical inference including estimation and hypothesis testing of the mean and the standard deviation will be discussed.
  1- 1	BASIC BIOTECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTS In this class, undergraduate students learn the basic knowledge of biotechnology learned from theory through lab exercises. Students learn the basics of biotechnology through experiments on genetic analysis, amplification, and cloning, which are the basic contents of biotechnology.
  1- 1	INTRODUCTION TO BIOTECHNOLOGY(1) This course introduces the nature of living things. This course provides the concepts of biotechnology and covers the cellular basis of living things, the energy metabolism, and the genetic basis for inheritance in organisms. Introduction to biotechnology also includes the study of evolutionary relationships among organisms, the biology of microorganisms, plants, and animals.
  1- 1	LIFE AND GENERAL CHEMISTRY Understanding phenomena in living organisms requires chemistry, the study of matter's composition and change. This course provides undergraduate students with a major in biotechnology with an overall knowledge of chemistry related to biology. In addition, students will learn the concepts of chemical formula and stoichiometry used in experiments to analyze the biochemical reactions.
  1- 1	THEORY AND EXPERIMENT IN CELL ENGINEERING This course is designed to help student not only develop the foundations for engineering of diverse types of cells but also understand the basic concepts and array of applications in molecular biology as a biotechnologist. Based on such understanding, the class will overview and appreciate breadth of cell/microbe engineering and its applications to biotechnology toward benefit of human beings as well as creation of profitable business.
  1- 2	CONVERGENCE- AND INTEGRATION-BASED THINKING AND WRITING The ability of analyzing and solving problems is emphasized as one of the conditions for survival in the 21st century and one of the core elements of creative capabilities. This course was designed to cultivate convergence- and integration-based creative capabilities, which are integrated problem-solving capabilities to collect, analyze and process knowledge and information by reinforcing the ability of analyzing and solving problems, recreate it in a synthetic fashion, and express it effectively through speech and writing. The course will help the students cultivate their synesthesia thinking and communication skills based on sympathy with other human beings, understanding of the community, and positivity or Gongseong that is sought after by Yeungnam University. Its ultimate goals are to promote the students' creative knowledge development and reinforce their writing capabilities consistently through "convergence- and integration-based thinking and writing as a problem-solving approach."
  1- 2	SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
  1- 2	SOFTWARE AND AI Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
  1- 2	WELCOME TO PLANT WORLD Plants are the primary producers of energy on Earth, which provide nutrients and oxygen to humans. The relationship between plants and humans is diverse and complicated in terms of environment and interaction as well as food and shelter. In this class, we will study in depth the relationship between humans and plants and also learn basic botanics to understand plant physiology, genetics, biotechnology, and plant biotechnology. Through this lesson, students will understand plants as living creatures coexisting on the earth with human being, and improve their knowledge of plants, which are one of the key players in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
  1- 2	ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I give a lecture about basic of organic chemistry, how to make their names, structure, synthesis, basic reaction, physical and chemical nature, application for students who are majoring in food.
  1- 2	THEORY AND EXPERIMENT IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY The chemical experiments in functions and principles of biomolecules.
  1- 2	THEORY AND EXPERIMENT IN MICROBIOLOGY This course introduce various experimental techniques related to taxonomic system of micoorganism by biochemical and mophlogical analysis of isolated micoorganisms Also the course involves the experiments of the physiological characteristic of various micoorganisms
  1- 2	USE OF PERSONAL COMPUTER IN BIOTECHNOLOGY To get used to essential PC tools in Biotechnology such as knowledge on PC Windows, Internet use in Biotechnology websites, words software (MS Word), data management (MS Excell and Access), reporting and presentation (MS Power Point), and elementary computing programs such as R.
  1- 2	INTRODUCTION TO BIOTECHNOLOGY(2) This class introduces low-level's undergraduate students, especially sophomore students, to the basic concept of biotechnology and the current achievement of biotechnology. Furthermore, the future and the ethics of biotechnology will be discussed.

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  2- 1	HUMAN GENOMES This course is designed to help student learn essential terminologies and related advanced analysis technologies in genome sequencing that includes the information of whole human genes.
  2- 1	MOLECULAR MICROBIAL GENETICS Lecture for genetics, mutation, gene damage repair and gene structure of microorganisms.
  2- 1	BIOCHEMISTRY The lecture on biomolecules, metabolism and principles of molecular biology.
  2- 1	HUMAN BIOLOGY An introduction to the biological, health, environmental, and sociopolitical issues that influence human health and well-being. Topics include genetics, physiology, anatomy of human body, human health and disease, and human behaviour and development.
  2- 1	MICROBIOLOGY This course focuses on the general principles of microbiology. The course will cover eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes but will emphasize bacteria and fungi. Topics include diversity of microorganisms, microbial cell structure and function, metabolism, energy and nutrient harvesting, microorganisms and the environment, and control of microorganisms.
  2- 2	ANIMAL CELL ENGINEERING This topic is based on principles, concepts & recent advanced technologies about production of useful proteins, bioactive compounds, microorganism cells & cultures by appyling biotechnology and cell biology, so as to improve animal industry on high quality pruduction basis.
  2- 2	BIO-OMICS Metabolomics is a approach to determine phenotypic gene after evaluation of cell metabolites. Classical genetic analysis is depend on sequenced data to identify mutation regardless of expressed gene or silent gene.
  2- 2	THEORY AND EXPERIMENT IN BIOINFORMATICS This course is an experiment class in which the gene sequence, structure and function of the products is analyzed into a meaningful form in biotechnology research by computer programs and modeling.
  2- 2	GENETICS Principles of the heritability of traits will be covered in bacteria, plants, and animals. The dynamic functions of genes in active molecules, cells, organisms, and populations will be addressed. Further understanding of these issues will be discussed from the study of heredity, recombination, gene cloning, genome structure, functional genomics, and current molecular genetic issues in the news topics in life science. The course will also focus on applying genetic concepts to apply for biotechnology.
  2- 2	VIROLOGY Introduction to basis of virus structure, replication, infection, and virus- hostrelationships.

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  3- 1	INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS Instrumental Analysis Chemistry is a course that introduces students to the instruments necessary for understanding and analyzing the composition and characteristics of chemical sample.
  3- 1	INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY This course is designed to help student not only develop the foundations for genetics/genomics but also understand the basic concepts and diverse array of applications in synthetic biology as a biotechnologist. To this end, first, the class will introduce the basic concepts of genetics and genomics. Based on such understanding, the class will help student overview and appreciate breadth of synthetic biology and its applications to biotechnology toward benefit of human beings as well as creation of profitable business.
  3- 1	PLANT METABOLIC ENGINEERING Plants have been developed their unique metabolic pathway, such as photosynthesis and secondary metabolite production. Therefore, this class will be designed to deliver the knowledge of plant biochemistry and metabolism, and furthermore, to bring the examples of metabolic engineering to change the levels of plant adaptness and useful materials.
  3- 1	STEM CELL ENGINEERING This topic is based on principles, concepts & recent advanced technologies about features of stem cells and its application to understand human life mechanisms, such as fate-transition of somatic cells and stem cells, control system of cell transition within the body tissues and its molecular characterization, so as to understand control of cell fate and source technology of the cell transition system.
  3- 1	CELL BIOLOGY Students who enroll in this cell biology class have a special interest in the topic of cell biology to pursue careers in various field in biology including medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, food science and agriculture. This course will provide a strong background in the cellular and molecular aspects of biology with particular emphasis on the structure and function of cells.
  3- 1	GENETIC ENGINEERING The course dealed with the detailed study of basic genetic recombinant DNA techniques, cloning systems for use in microorganisms, and applications of recombinant DNA technology.
  3- 1	MEDICAL GENETICS Medical genetics is a field that the inheritance patterns related to disorders are studied and the results are applied to the diagnosis and management of the hereditary disorders. There are mainly three parts: field of genetics related to the disorders, diagnositic evaluation and treatments. The disorder genetics includes clinical genetics, metabolic/biochemical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics and mitochondrial genetics. Diagnostic evaluation includes chromosome, basic metabolic and molecular studies. Treatments include management of metaboic disorders, etc.
  3- 2	BIOSTATISTICS Study on basic Statistics and analysis methods for biological data: sampling, probability distribution, normal and t distributions, inferential statistics, inferences involving one or two populations
  3- 2	CAPSTONE DESIGN RESEARCH ( BIOTECHNOLOGY )Ⅰ This course is oriented to develop and increase the research capacity of the juniors or seniors in the Biotechnology major. In this course students are subjected to design and carry out a research project, by applying some basic theories and experimental methods. And intimate relationship between the students and the advising professor will be held on analyzing experimental data and performing further experiments.
  3- 2	COSMETICS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY This course covers the basic concepts of cosmetics and biotechnology in cosmetic bioindustry.
  3- 2	EMBRYOLOGY BIOTECHNOLOGY This course is designed to help student learn the fundamental concepts in germ cells (sperm and oocyte). Based on them, the class introduces assistant reproductive technology (ART) that has been used to treat infertility among embryology biotechnology and its the latest research fields.
  3- 2	FIELD WORK ( BIOTECHNOLOGY ) The objective of this course is designed for the students in the major of biotechnology to achieve both the practical knowledge and the experience in the related job fields. Field-based practice plays a major role in the training of professionals in the biotechnology industry. The Field Practice Program provides students with a unique opportunity to apply what they learn in their courses.
  3- 2	NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY The course aims to lecture on the isolation of bioactive compounds from natural sources, specifically from plants and animals, and the elucidation of their chemical structures and physiological activity characteristics.
  3- 2	BIOINFORMATICS This interdisciplinary course provides both principles and hands-on experiences to students in the topics of bioinformatics in order to help students to connect bioinformatics skills to answering questions in basic researches and to solve real world problems.
  3- 2	MOLECULAR BIOLOGY This course ,will be about the mechanism of life phenomena related to genes in terms of participating molecules and their interactions. These phenomena include the structure of genes and chromosomes, gene expression (transcription and translation), DNA replication, and recombination, as well as regulation of all these processes.

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  4- 1	CAPSTONE DESIGN RESEARCH ( BIOTECHNOLOGY )Ⅱ This course is oriented to develop and increase the research capacity of the juniors or seniors in the Biotechnology major. In this course students are subjected to design and carry out a research project, by applying some basic theories and experimental methods. And intimate relationship between the students and the advising professor will be held on analyzing experimental data and performing further experiments.
  4- 1	FIELD WORK ( BIOTECHNOLOGY ) The objective of this course is designed for the students in the major of biotechnology to achieve both the practical knowledge and the experience in the related job fields. Field-based practice plays a major role in the training of professionals in the biotechnology industry. The Field Practice Program provides students with a unique opportunity to apply what they learn in their courses.
  4- 1	METABOLISM Metabolic Biochemistry uses the knowledge and understanding gained in the general Biochemistry course to understand the key metabolism of living organisms in detail.
  4- 1	PHARMACO-BIOTECHNOLOGY This course provides the concepts of the cosmetic formulations and manufacturing. The students learn the advanced biotechnology to develop cosmetics.
  4- 1	R PROGRAMMING FOR BIOLOGISTS In recent years, biology and biotechnology witnessed that fast advance in technologies such as DNA sequencing enables production of large scale data on transcriptome and proteome as well as whole genome. Like in any fields where huge amount of data flowing in, skills and knowledge for mining meaningful data and analzying them became pivotal not only for data scientist and bioinformatician but also for biologists who do the laboratory experiments. R is a free and easy-to-learn programming language. In this course, students are expected to learn basics of R programming language and its rigorous application to genomics data analysis.
  4- 1	IMMUNOLOGY General introduction of new knowledge in immunology areas including the anatomy organization of the immune system, the mechanisms of antigen capture and transport to the sites of immune responses, the molecular basis of antigen processing, and the mechanisms of immunologic tolerance.
  4- 2	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE
  4- 2	BIOPHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY CONTROL PRACTICE In this biopharmaceutical quality control practical course, we prepare educational materials for each detailed unit of biopharmaceutical quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) to understand the content of the work performed in the field of biopharmaceutical quality control, and we conduct practical basic theory and basic practice so that it can be applied to the field. This is an essential and important subject that strengthens the field application capability by performing practical work on the quality control work of biopharmaceutical, a cutting-edge industry that has recently been in the spotlight.
  4- 2	BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INVESTMENT This course is designed to learn about the systemic approach to producing a valuation which can be used in investment rounds, mergers/acquisition, licensing deals or strategic development decisions in the biotech world. In addition, this course also covers aspect such as the recent biotechnologies and biotec companies.
  4- 2	DIGITAL BIOMEDICINE In this course, the development of new biomedicine will be explained and discussed using various online tools.
  4- 2	ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY The widespread use of persistent chemicals in industry and agriculture have accumulated tremendous amount of pollutants. The application of biotechnology to solve environmental problems can offer alternative but efficient methods for the pollution. Therefore, we will learn the application of biotechnology to the environment without going into too much depth in the techniques involved.