BIOT 1020

This course employs Prince Edward Island's unique concentration of companies engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of biotechnologies as an "operating laboratory" for developing an awareness and understanding of the techniques and processes, challenges, and solutions involved in Biotechnology of the 21st century. Through a series of field trips, students will examine first-hand how bioscience industries on the Island employ common biotechnology processes and how they apply them to solve different problems. There will be required writing exercises associated with each field trip. Students taking this course will attain a foundational layer of transferrable skills via competency-building written exercises, comprehensive experiential learning of biotechnologies across different working environments, and engagement with a pool of industry leaders. Three lecture hours plus Three field trip hours per week