Course Information

COURSE DESIGNATION :   The course is designated BioC 5-001, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology (BMCB) for graduate students and BioC 6-001 for first year medical students. The course is an interdisciplinary course presented by the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics and the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development.   Clinical faculty from the medical school also help to give the course a greater depth and relevancy.

COURSE CONTENT :   The course integrates basic biochemical principles with cellular structure and function.

COURSE OBJECTIVES :   The curricular objective of the course is to educate students about the contemporary, integrated understanding of the cell's structures and workings.   This means that the boundaries among traditional biochemistry, cell biology and genetics will be blurred.   The educational objective is to provide students with a balance of factual and conceptual information, which may be subsequently used independently to expand their own knowledge.   Although expansive in content, the course makes no attempt to be encyclopedic but rather to give a scaffold of knowledge and to show how information connects.