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Student Handbook, Semester 1, 2010: Biotechnology

Major

For a major in Biotechnology, students must successfully complete 8 courses:

5 Required courses:
LFS252 Science Research Methods
LFS261 Communicating Sustainability
SCI212 Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Ecology
MBT361 Environmental Health Risk Management
MBT352 Regions, Change and Sustainability

Plus 3 courses from one of the following streams:

Microbial Biotechnology
LFS262 Tourism, Sport and Leisure Policy and Planning
MBT301 Sustainable Tourism, Leisure and Event Management
MBT353 Foundations of Sustainability
or Workplace Learning course #
or Special Scholarship Project course #

Environmental and Production Systems Biotechnology
ENS321 Measuring Sustainability
ENS371 Introduction to Mathematics
ENS303 Mathematics Foundations
or Workplace Learning course #
or Special Scholarship Project course #

Medical Biotechnology
BIM331 Molecular Biology
BIM341 Microbiology
MBT353 Genetics
or Workplace Learning course #
or Special Scholarship Project course #

# Courses may be up to 48 units. Enrolment in these courses must be approved by the Head of School.

Minor

For a minor in Biotechnology, students must successfully complete 4 courses:

1 required course:
LFS252 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Plus select 3 courses from:
BIM331 Molecular Biotechnology
LFS251 Medical Microbiology
LFS252 Pharmaceutical and Food Microbiology
LFS261 Microbial Pathogenesis
MBT301 Restoration Ecology and Genetics
MBT352 Aquaculture
MBT361 Forests, Carbon and Climate

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