Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Humanities Division

Meeting: 1:00PM - 2:15PM R (12-OCT-2011 - 2-DEC-2011) 

Part of Term: 2nd Half of Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 1

 

Section Max Enrollment: 8

Section Enrolled: 3

Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 8

Total Cross-list Enrolled: 8

Enrollment data as of: 10-NOV-2024 1:48PM

 

 

Final Exam: No Final Exam

 

Description: A 7-week seminar course to introduce freshmen prospective biologists to the excitement of research at Rice and the Medical Center and to provide context with which to think about facts presented in biosciences textbooks. Small groups will meet weekly with a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher to explore a published research article by a local lab, gaining background information about the subject and exposure to the research techniques. In the final session, the group will tour the lab that produced the featured article. Additional tours and activities TBA. All first-year non-transfer students are eligible to enroll in BIOC 115/FSEM 115 regardless of AP credit. This course meets in the second half of the semester and features research in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Course organizers: Dereth Phillips and Bonnie Bartel. Cross-list: BIOC 115.