Improving Student Understanding and Retention through Investigative Laboratories in Biotechnology

生物科学（61）。虽然生物技术已经变得相当标准，但生物技术在解决“现实世界”问题上的应用是广泛多样和复杂的。不幸的是，大多数学生在他们的学术生涯中接触到的生物技术在很大程度上是理论性的，并且被纳入了讲座课程而不是实验课程。那些在实验室里教授的技术往往是常规的，缺乏与学生感兴趣的当代研究课题的联系。这个项目的重点是使生物技术适应农业生物学和野生动物管理的特殊需要。动物科学课程将扩大到包括以野生动物管理、动物跟踪、选择育种、病理学和疾病、临床动物病理学、小动物管理以及乳制品和牲畜改良为中心的调查和实践实验室。学生分子生物学实验室的建立也将增加参与与托马斯·杰斐逊大学和位于特拉华谷学院校园的托马斯·杰斐逊生物医学研究中心的研究人员合作教授的实验课程的学生人数。

Biological Sciences (61) .While the techniques of biotechnology have become quite standard, the application of biotechnology to solve "real world" problems is widely diverse and sophisticated. Unfortunately, the exposure most students have to biotechnology during their academic career is largely theoretical and is incorporated into lecture courses rather than laboratory courses. Those techniques that are taught in laboratories tend to be routine and lack connection to contemporary research topics of interest to students. This project is focused on adapting the techniques of biotechnology to the special needs of agricultural biology and wildlife management. The animal science curriculum will be expanded to include investigative, hands-on laboratories centered around wildlife management, animal tracking, selective breeding, pathology and disease, clinical animal pathology, small animal management, and dairy and livestock improvement. The establishment of a student molecular biology laboratory will also increase the number of students participating in laboratory courses taught in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University and researchers from the Thomas Jefferson Center for Biomedical Research located on the Delaware Valley College campus.