Course Overview

This course consists of a hybrid learning module that provides
essential information about the major components of the cell and how
these components contribute to the overall functioning. The cell is
analysed as if it were a unicellular organism. "Uni" stands for "unity
in diversity" as the cells of different organisms have many elements
in common.
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 cells, tissues, organs
and organisms. These lectures also cover organelles and their role in
cell functioning.
Lectures presented by students provide a more detailed description of
one of the following topics: the cell membrane, cellular transport
across the cell membrane, protein synthesis, protein routing, the
composition and roles of the cytoskeleton, secretion and endocytosis,
cell division, the nucleus and gene replication. 

Please note: students must choose, for the preparation of their
lecture, a topic  with a gene that is involved in an inherited
disease (e.g. transporter deficiency, muscle wasting, metabolic
errors, etc.)

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 same authors) - Essential Cell Biology (Alberts, et al.), 2
copies, code 571.6 ESS - Cell Biology (Karp), 1 copy, code 571.6 KAR

Relevant French multimedia resources

- www.cellbiol.net/cbe/multimedia.php
[http://www.cellbiol.net/cbe/multimedia.php] - For genes and
inherited diseases: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM),
www.omim.org/ [https://www.omim.org/]



Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: Blended learning

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