COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 4268 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Chemistry

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HÜLYA AYAR KAYALI

Offered to

Course Objective

In this age, the place and importance of biotechnology in the global economy is gradually increasing. One of the main objectives of biotechnology is to achieve high yield with low cost. Therefore, people who working in this industry should have informantion about financial and legal issues as well as the need to have a good knowledge of biotechnology while designing biotechnological processes. The course explores relationship between biotechnology and economics and economic analysis of biotechnological applications. The course also involves the economic approaches to decide required raw material, energy and waste management in the followed biotechnological applications; consumer issues, ethical issues, biosafety, issues of legal rights, and patents.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students will be able to comprehend economic aspects of the biotechnological applications,
2   The students will be able to comprehend the basic economic principles of designing biotechnological processes,
3   The students will be able to have information about the costs of various biotechnological applications and required raw material, energy and waste management in these applications,
4   The students will be able to have knowledge of consumer issues, ethical issues, biosafety, issues of legal rights, and patents,
5   The students will be able to have knowledge of research & development studies in biotechnology.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relationship between biotechnology and economy and biotechnology market
2 Financial analysis of research-development studies in biotechnology, benefit and risk factors
3 Raw materials
4 Economic analysis of fermentation processes
5 Downstream prosessing
6 Enzyme catalysis
8 Genetic engineering
9 Energy
10 Waste management
11 Biotechnology and public relations: consumer issues and ethical issues
12 Biosafety and international regulations
13 Biotechnology in developed countries New ventures in biotechnology, patents and the opinions on economic developments

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Hacking , A. J., Economic Aspects of Biotechnology, University Press, UK, 1986.
Supplementary Book(s): Gaisford, J. D., Hobbs, J. E., Kerr, W. A., Perdikis, N., Plunkett, M. D., The Economics of Biotechnology, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, Interactive narrative, Question-answer technique, Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PAR * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PAR * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, active participation to the lecture, homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEU, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry e-mail: hulya.kayali@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30-15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 4 8
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 94

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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