BIO 298AA -- Introduction to Bio

BIO 298AA -- Introduction to Biological Research

Scottsdale Community College

Contents:

Syllabus and Schedule

Tentative Course Schedule and Reading Assignments

Date	Topic	Reading
8/28	Welcome	On being a scientist, pg. 1-13
9/4	Ethics Discussion—Scientific values	On being a scientist, pg. 13-20
9/11	Ethics Discussion—Authorship and credit	Gardner et al. (2005), Marzouki et al (2005), news articles
9/18	Ethics Discussion—Integrity in research	UM CMB website and handbook
9/25	What’s grad school all about?	Krebs et al. (1995)
10/2	Experimental Design	NIH Proposal Guide
10/9	Proposal Prep	Proposal Team's draft
10/16	Discussion—Implementing the Design
10/23	Execution Team Report	Biostats lecture notes—analysis
10/30	Data Analysis	Uniform reqs for biomed journals
11/6	Introduction to theory	Nature and Science author guidelines
11/13	Student exercise—Modeling	Ellner and Guckenheimer (2006), Ch. 1
11/20	Student exercise—Modeling	Teams work on modeling projects
11/27	*NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving*	--
12/4	*Student Presentations*	--
12/11	*Student Presentations*	--

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