6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023165BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
Department
Business Technology and Operations
Educational team
Mylene D'Haeseleer (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

39 contact hours Lecture
111 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

The course ‘Technologies in Bioscience and Chemistry' consists of six chapters, corresponding to certain sub-disciplines in Bioscience and Applied Chemistry

I. The cell and its compounds

  1. The prokaryote and the eukaryote cell
  2. Molecular basics
  3. Chemical bounds within the cell
  4. Carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides and nucleic acids, amino acids, proteins
  5. DNA, processing of RNA
  6. The plant cell and the animal cell
  7. The Human Genome Project
  8. Cloning
  9. GMO’s, Ethical and Social Aspects

II. Evolution

  1. Genes and evolution: mutations, eugenetics
  2. Human evolution: processes and hypothesis

III. Bacteria, Viruses and Prions

  1. The immune system
  2. Clasification
  3. Reproduction cycles
  4. Vaccines: development, stockage, sale

IV. Ecology and Biodiversity

  1. Ecosystems
  2. Nature policy
  3. Conservation
  4. Energy: sources, alternatives

V. Food Chemistry

  1. Balanced food
  2. Food safety
  3. Diets

VI. Pharmacochemistry

  1. Origin of drugs
  2. Carbohydrates, saccharids, lipids, proteins
  3. Drugs classifications:
  4. Analgetics, antipyretics, antiseptics
  5. Doses and preparations
  6. Drug control
Additional info

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

General Competences

The course ‘Technologies in Bioscience and Chemistry’ explicitly contributes to the following competences within the studie:

1. In general

Students develop by themselves a learning process in the scientific discipline; with regard to filling gaps in their knowledge.

2. Specific goals

Students are able to use correctly the basic subject terminology of the Biosciences and Chemistry.
Students have the ability to collect scientific data. They can observate and formulate biological relevances in the study of Business Economics. They can evaluate the biological components of an economic problem (biotechnology, biology development, relation ecology-economic) and make a conclusion.
Students do understand the economic, social-cultural and ethical implications of ecological, biological and medical aspects.
The students who successfully complete this course can correctly place any biological component of a problem from his or her field both when it concerns biotechnological and/or chemical components or if this concerns the interface between economy and ecology.
The course aims to place an organism, an ecosystem, or a part of it, a medial product or a food product in a context of society, industry or economy. One intends that way to break the divide between the professional domain of the Commercial Engineer and the scientist.

3. Per sub-discipline

Students acquire the sufficient knowledge and the insight to be able to follow the course ‘Business aspects of Biotechnology’ in the study of ‘Master of Business and Technology’. The material provided will also help to better understand the ethical and social issues that can be traced back to molecular methods.
Students can use methodologies correctly in the context of Biology, Biotechnology and Chemistry, but also as concepts that can be transferred to other disciplines in Medicine and Pharmacie.
Students are able to apply the food safety regulations in the food sector.
Students can follow and participate in current debates about biodiversity, the environment, pandemics,…

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written Exam with a relative weight of 75 which comprises 75% of the final mark.
  • Paper with a relative weight of 25 which comprises 25% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Not applicable.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Business Engineering: Business and Technology: Default track