22 courses with the subject BTCH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BTCH 210Introduction to Biotechnology3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 An introduction to the fundamentals of biotechnology and career options emphasizing the types of biotechnology workplaces and their unique requirements. The course includes a study of the use of mathematics, principles of instrumentation used, and analysis of measurements, solutions, centrifugation, spectrophotometry, chromatography, and electrophoresis. The importance of laboratory safety and precision will also be stressed.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 3 A laboratory course in basic biotechnology theory, skills, and applications. Includes spectrophotometry, gel filtration chromatography, gel electrophoresis, DNA isolation, Restriction enzyme digestion, genetic engineering, DNA fingerprinting, Southern and Western blot analysis.
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 3 A laboratory course teaching biotechnology theory, skills, and applications. Includes DNA sequencing, PCR, immunology, cell culture, separation technology, principles of fermentation technology, basic aptitudes for the biotechnology industry.
Total Credit Hours: 120 Chemistry with a concentration in Chemistry Entrepreneurship, B.S. Admission Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Students must have a grade of C or higher in CHEM 161 and a grade point average of 2.0 or better to be admitted to the program. Admission Criteria for Pre-Chemistry Any first-year student interested in graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry degree can enter Fayetteville State University as a pre-chemistry major. Once the student passes CHEM 161, he or she can switch from Pre- Chemistry to the Chemistry major.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This introductory course is designed to explore applications of nanotechnology to biotechnology. Nanotechnology deals with materials and devices that are or have structures of a size between 1 to 100 nm. Students will be introduced with the nano-based labeling technologies, fabrication strategies, nanofoods and nanotoxicology. Design and working of the nanodevices will also be discussed for applications in therpeutics, agriculture, food and diagnostic areas. A thorough understanding of DNA proteins, carbohydrates and lipid molecules is expected of the students.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Introduces the principles of toxicology. This course covers general concepts underlying the absorption, distribution, metabolism, action, and excretion of xenobiotics and the consequences to biological systems following exposure of toxicants, particularly the relevance to human health.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 This laboratory course includes two hours of lab study in the main concepts of toxicology through hypothesis-based experiments. Dose-response testing will be introduced as well as other tools used in risk assessment and specific areas of toxicology.
BTCH 355Global Regulatory and Legal Requirements of Quality
This course, as part of the Quality Science Education curriculum developed by Pathway for Patient Health, will give students an understanding of the role of regulators with an overview of regulations as stated in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), EudraLex Directives and Annexes, and Emerging Market regulations for the life science industries. The course will demonstrate the relationship between regulatory requirements and legal accountability while introducing fundamental concepts in the regulations related to clinical trial development, management, ethics, data integrity, data security, privacy, change control, and validation. Topics such as the role of guidance documents and industry standards will be reviewed, and case studies utilized to support the program. The “why” of the regulations will support the student’s ability to enter the life science industry with an understanding of how to optimize patient health and business success by mobilizing enterprise-wide quality effectiveness through innovative systems and critical thinking grounded in science, data, stakeholder awareness and regulatory intelligence.
BTCH 400Product Development, Specifications, Process and Validation
In this course, students will be exposed to the major design processes that are critical to life science product, process and specification development. Topics to be covered include: cradle to grave product and process development, prototype builds, scalability, design of experiments, variability, control, specification development and validation methodology. Instructors will explore how rigorous human factor engineering studies and clinical trials provide essential inputs into the product development process. The students will be introduced to concepts such as gap analysis, risk assessment, master plan, process characterization, installation qualification, operational qualification, measurement system analysis, repeatability and reproducibility (data collection / analysis), performance qualification/validation. In a world of innovative technology, it is critical that the students gain an understanding of computer system and software validation to ensure the quality of data generation, data storage, and digital processes used in manufacturing and products with digital components using technical and practical aspects expected in the regulated life science industries.
BTCH 355: Global Regulatory and Legal Requirements of Quality
BTCH 410Biotechnology Seminar3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Discusses current topics and current research in biotechnology. Also includes review of the requirements and ethics of the biotechnology workplace and laboratory. Presentations will be required.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Introduces bioinformatics using computational methods to analyze and help interpret the content of large volumes of biological data generated by genome sequencing, DNA micro-arrays, proteomics, metabolites and metabolic fluxes. The computational methods used in this course include analysis of sequences, gene clustering, and pattern recognition/discovery in large scale expression data. Application of bioinformatics to drug design, and biotechnology will be discussed.
This course will dive into the nuances of the life science industries related to the specific regulations that apply to consumer health products. Importantly, it is desired that students take this course while on internship at a life science company such that they can experience a failure while learning all that is required for acceptable resolution. Through the use of historical risk analysis techniques, such as FMEA, Fault Tree, and 5 Why’s, students will be able to analyze a holistic set of data (in-production, across product lines, across equipment, human variability, on-market, on-stability, validation studies, change control, etc.) that will lead to scientifically justified investigations supported by evidence, and the identification of effective corrective and preventative actions (CAPA).
Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 5 A laboratory course which teaches techniques for the establishment, assay, and maintenance of a variety of types of cells, tissue and hybridoma cultures.
BTCH 460LIntroduction to Genomic Science Laboratory1
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 Lab exercises will consist of genomics and bioinformatics exercises on structural and functional genomics; the human genome project; exploring DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing databases; DNA fingerprinting; genetic and QTL mapping; and epigenetics.
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 8 This course gives biotechnology students the opportunity to develop the skills needed to conduct research with minimum supervision. Students learn how to design an experiment, collect scientific information, prepare an outline of procedures, initiate the project, conduct the experiments specified, write a comprehensive scientific report, and make a presentation on the findings of the project. Biotechnology students in their Junior or Senior year will be eligible to enroll in this course. Students will work with a mentor willing to provide guidance and oversee the research project.
