Course Overview

This course consists of a hybrid learning module that provides
essential information about how cells connect and communicate with
each other via soluble and cell-attached messengers (signals). The
focus is on the cell as part of a three layer pluricellular organism
(metazoan). Students attend lectures and must prepare as part of a
team, lectures for fellow students on a selected subject.

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

- High-school graduate level of cell biology
- Internet knowledge and connection

Grading Philosophy

SUMMATIVE:

- In-course assessment of formal lectures (0.4 weighting)
- Assessment of peer teaching at the end of the course (during the
final 2 face-to-face sessions, an assessment rubric is provided), (0.6
weighting)
- Team auto-evaluation to ensure individual accountability

FORMATIVE:

- Team auto-evaluation to ensure individual accountability (learning
how to auto-evaluate mid-way through the course)

Course schedule

Introductory lectures provide an overview of how cells and their
extracellular matrix make up tissues and organs. Students learn how
these coordinate their way of functioning through a complex network of
soluble and cell-attached messengers (signals).
Lectures presented by the students provide a more detailed description
of one of the following topics: adhesion molecules, extracellular
matrix, receptors, first messengers (hormones, growth factors,
neurotransmitters, cytokines), regulation of gene transcription, stem
cells, tissue dynamics, cell signalling.

Course type

- 15 hours of formal face-to-face teaching  - Peer teaching with the preparation of content as part of a team - Tutorials to monitor student progress - Self-learning (library, Internet resources)

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

Maximum number of students: 16 

Relevant English textbooks in library (BUST, Section "Sciences de la
Vie", level +1):

- The Cell (Alberts, et al.), 3 copies, code 571.6 MOL - Molecular
Biology of the Cell (Lodish, et al.), 2 copies, 571.6 MOL (same code
but not the same authors) - Essential Cell Biology (Alberts, et al.),
2 copies, code 571.6 ESS - Cell Biology (Karp), 1 copy, code 571.6
KAR - Signal Transduction (Kramer, 2015), online Babord+

Relevant French multimedia resources

- www.cellbiol.net/cbe/multimedia.php
[http://www.cellbiol.net/cbe/multimedia.php]



Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: Blended learning

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