Curriculum

Curriculum

Aiming at training graduates with all-round competence in a wide range of capabilities in addition to the professional knowledge in their specialty, our curriculum is designed very distinctly from the traditional subject knowledge-based teaching and learning.

Vision
To provide the best training for students who wish to dedicate their careers in biomedical sciences.

Features

OUR Lecutre Courses
-	begin with the introduction of various top model organisms used in cell and molecular biology research
-	cover advanced topics in fields of cell and molecular biology, including protein trafficking, signal transduction, genomics, and cell biology of stem cell and cancer cell
-	introduce the latest developments and foci in the fields
OUR Student-Oriented Teaching (STOT) courses
-	are on 1 teacher-on-1 student basis
-	cover skills on how to formulate a good scientific report in the first year, including literature research, data handling and presentation, and scientific writing
-	cover how to identify major issues and formulate idea/hypothesis through scientific literature reading in the second year
-	provide independent research chances to gain hands-on experience, both experimental and conclusion-formulating in the final year
OUR Laboratory Courses
-	instruct the most important and up-to-date techniques in cell and molecular biology
-	deal with the handling of several biological models, from prokaryotic microorganisms to eukaryotes (plant and mammalian cells)
-	cover fundamental skills in cell biology, molecular biology and biochemistry
-	familiarize with culturing of plant and mammalian cells
-	introduce practical techniques in fluorescent protein imaging technology, cancer cell biology, cell differentiation, signal transduction, and transgenic studies
-	involve training on experimental design, data acquisition and analysis, as well as formal scientific report formulation
-	prepare competence in multi-tasking which resembles scenarios in real research life
OUR Laboratory
-	equips with the state-of-art technologies, including fluorescence and confocal microscopes
-	carries complete lists of essential research equipments for cell and molecular biology research
-	is also accessible outside regular lab hours for students who wish to nurture their interests in doing scientific research

Major Requirement
CMB students are required to complete 62 units of major courses before graduation, including 41 units of major compulsory courses and 21 units of major elective courses*.

First Term		Second Term
Year 1
SCI2000	Research and Communication Skills in Life Sciences	BIO2310	General and Molecular Genetics
SCI2002	Basic Laboratory Techniques in Life Sciences	CMB0210	Literature survey in CMB & Scientific Communication
BIO2120	Cell Biology	CMB2100	Biology of Model Organisms for CMB Research
BCH2030	Fundamentals of Biochemistry
Year 2
CMB0310	Methodology of critical thinking	CMB0320	Creative Scientific writing
CMB3010	CMB laboratory I	CMB3020	CMB laboratory II
		BCH4010	Molecular Biology
		BCH4020	Recombinant DNA techniques
Plus 3 or 4** major elective courses
Year 3
CMB4001	Protein Trafficking	CMB4101	Cancer Cell Biology
CMB4002	Protein Folding	CMB4102	Stem Cell Biology
CMB4003	Signal Transduction	CMB4103	Neuronal Cell Biology
CMB4201	Genomics	CMB4301	Current Topics in Cell Biology
CMB4202	Transcriptomics	CMB4302	Current Topics in Molecular Biology
CMB4203	Metabolomics	CMB4303	Current Topics in Biotechniques
Plus 4** or 3 major elective courses

* Twenty major elective courses are available for selection. The courses are provided by other programmes in Life Sciences (Biochemistry, Biology, and Molecular Biotechnology), Departments of Pharmacology and Statistics, as well as School of Pharmacy.
** CMB students are encouraged to take one 3-unit major elective course in the second term of the first year.