Ⅰ.Program Objective
This program is dedicated to educating undergraduates to get comprehensive development in moral, intelligent and physical abilities, to possess solid ground of fundamental theory, wide-ranged knowledge and strong practical ability, especially in the fields of bioinformation acquisition, processing, exploitation and application, to meet the requirements of new century development of life science and biotechnology-related industries. As a result, the graduates can be engaged in the basic research of life science, thetechnology development or management in industries related to biotechnology, information technology and so on.
Ⅱ.Learning Outcomes
Students should possess essential theories and knowledge in life science, computer technology, bioinformation technology and so on, and be well educated in engineering training and practice. The graduates are expected to be qualified for Research & Development in life science and development, and to play an important role in the transformation and industrialization of research results.
By the time of graduation, the students of the program are required to possess:
1. Solid ground in mathematics, physics and chemistry;
2. Principles and methods of biological science and technology, medicine, pharmacy, electronic and computer technology, and bioinformation technology;
3.Strong ability and skills of solving real-world problems with computer and bioinformation technology;
4. Strong English language ability;
5. Ability in searching for references, documents, and writing scientific articles
6. Attainment in humanities & art, cooperative and organizational skills
7. Sense of creation and innovation.
Ⅲ.Program Highlights
Taking the biological science, biotechnology and information technology as the foundation, the bioinformation acquisition, processing, exploitation and application as the core, this program aims to cultivate all-around and innovative talents for the research of life science and the development of biotechnology related industries.
Ⅳ.Main Disciplines
Life Science, Computer Science,Bioinformatics
Ⅴ.Program Length and Degree
Duration:4 years
Degrees Conferred:Bachelor of Engineering
Ⅵ.Credits Hours and Units
Minimum Credits Required for Class (including Curriculum and Practical Training): 160.5 credits. Major-related basic courses and core courses cannot be covered using credits from other courses in the program.
Minimum Credits of Extracurricular Activities and Practice: 5 credits.
1.Hours/Credits of Course System
Course Classified |
Course Nature |
Hrs/Crs |
Percentage (%) |
|
Basic Courses in General Education |
Required |
1072/61.3 |
41.8 |
|
Elective |
160/10 |
6.9 |
||
Basic Courses in General Discipline |
Required |
816/47.2 |
32.8 |
|
Courses in Specialty |
Common Core Courses |
Required |
328/19.5 |
13.5 |
Specialty-Oriented Courses |
Elective |
112/7 |
4.9 |
|
Total |
2488/145 |
100 |
Internship & Practical Training |
Course Nature |
Weeks/Credits |
Percentage (%) |
Military Training |
Required |
2w/1 |
6.5 |
Safety Education |
Required |
1w/0.5 |
3.3 |
Industrial Practice |
Required |
2w/1 |
6.5 |
Electrical Engineering Practice |
Required |
2w/1 |
6.5 |
Cognitive Practice |
Required |
1w/0.5 |
3.3 |
Engineering Internship |
Required |
4w/2 |
13 |
Course Project |
Required |
2w/1 |
6.5 |
Science Research Practice |
Required |
1w/0.5 |
3.3 |
Undergraduate Thesis |
Required |
16w/8 |
51.6 |
Total |
30w/15.5 |
100 |
No. |
Activities |
Requirements |
Extracurricular Credits |
|
1 |
Community Engagement |
Submitting a report and passing the oral defense |
1 |
|
Individuals awarded “Active Participant” / Teams awarded “Excellent Performance” by HUST or Hubei Youth League Committee |
2 |
|||
2 |
Examinations in English and Computer |
CET-6 |
Certificate |
2 |
TOEFL |
90 Points or Higher |
3 |
||
IELTS |
6.5 Points or Higher |
3 |
||
GRE |
1350 Points or Higher |
3 |
||
National Computer Rank Examinations |
Certificate Grade 2 or Higher |
2 |
||
Qualifications for Computer and Software Technology Proficiency |
Programmer |
2 |
||
Senior Programmer |
3 |
|||
System Analyst |
4 |
|||
3 |
Competitions |
University Level |
First Prize |
3 |
Second Prize |
2 |
|||
Third Prize |
1 |
|||
Provincial Level |
First Prize |
4 |
||
Second Prize |
3 |
|||
Third Prize |
2 |
|||
National Level |
First Prize |
6 |
||
Second Prize |
4 |
|||
Third Prize |
3 |
|||
4 |
Academic Papers |
Published in national-level journals |
2~3 |
|
5 |
Research Program |
Contribution and research capability |
Each Program |
1~3 |
6 |
Experiments |
Innovation capacity |
Each Experiment |
1~3 |
Course type |
Required/ Elective |
Course code |
Course name |
hrs |
crs |
Including |
Semester |
||
extra-cur. |
exp. |
operation |
|||||||
General Education Core Curriculum |
Required |
0301902 |
Morals & Ethics & Fundamentals of Law |
40 |
2.5 |
8 |
|
|
1 |
Required |
0100721 |
Survey of Modern Chinese History |
32 |
2 |
8 |
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0100932 |
Social Practice of Ideological and Political Theories Course |
24 |
1.5 |
20 |
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0100733 |
Basic Theory of Marxism |
40 |
2.5 |
8 |
|
|
3 |
|
Required |
0100322 |
General Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and Socialist Theory with Chinese Characteristics |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
Required |
0100741 |
32 |
2 |
14 |
|
|
1-6 |
||
Required |
0508453 |
Comprehensive English (I) |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Required |
0508463 |
Comprehensive English (II) |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0400111 |
Physical Education(Ⅰ) |
32 |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Required |
0400121 |
Physical Education (Ⅱ) |
32 |
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0400131 |
Physical Education(Ⅲ) |
32 |
1 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Required |
0400141 |
Physical Education(Ⅳ) |
32 |
1 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
Required |
1100011 |
Military Theory |
16 |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
continued table |
Course type |
Required/ Elective |
Course code |
Course name |
hrs |
crs |
Including |
Semester |
||
extra-cur. |
exp. |
operation |
|||||||
General Education Core Curriculum |
Required |
0700011 |
Calculus (Ⅰ) Part I |
88 |
5.5 |
|
|
|
1 |
Required |
0700012 |
Calculus (Ⅰ) Part II |
88 |
5.5 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0700054 |
Linear Algebra |
40 |
2.5 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0700071 |
Complex Function |
40 |
2.5 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Required |
0700063 |
Probability and Statistics (Ⅲ) |
40 |
2.5 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Required |
0700048 |
Physics (Ⅰ) |
64 |
4 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Required |
0700049 |
Physics (Ⅱ) |
64 |
4 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Required |
0706891 |
Physics Experiments (Ⅰ) |
32 |
1 |
|
32 |
|
2 |
|
Required |
0706901 |
Physics Experiments (Ⅱ) |
24 |
0.8 |
|
24 |
|
3 |
|
Required |
0827781 |
Fundamental of Computer Programming (C++) |
48 |
3 |
|
|
8 |
1 |
|
Required |
0833174 |
Technology and Application of Database |
32 |
2 |
|
|
8 |
4 |
|
Required |
0510071 |
Chinese |
32 |
2 |
10 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Electives in the Humanities and Social Science |
160 |
10 |
|
|
|
1-8 |
|
Discipline-related General Courses |
Required |
0705071 |
General Biology Ⅲ |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
1 |
Required |
0704531 |
Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry (Including Experiments) |
96 |
6 |
|
32 |
|
1 |
|
Required |
0704583 |
Introduction to Bioinformatics |
16 |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Required |
0704511 |
Organic Chemistry (Including Experiments) |
96 |
6 |
|
32 |
|
2 |
|
Required |
0703081 |
88 |
5.5 |
|
|
|
3 |
||
Required |
0704132 |
Experiments in Biochemistry I |
24 |
0.8 |
|
24 |
|
3 |
|
Required |
0704142 |
Experiments in Biochemistry II |
24 |
0.8 |
|
24 |
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
continued table |
Course type |
Required/ Elective |
Course code |
Course name |
hrs |
crs |
Including |
Semester |
||
extra-cur. |
exp. |
operation |
|||||||
Discipline-related General Courses |
Required |
0700893 |
Cellular Biology |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
|
4 |
Required |
0702745 |
Experiments in Cellular Biology |
24 |
0.8 |
|
24 |
|
4 |
|
Required |
0800593 |
Data Structure and Algorithm |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
16 |
4 |
|
Required |
0701021 |
Molecular Biology |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Required |
0702752 |
Experiments in Molecular Biology |
24 |
0.8 |
|
24 |
|
5 |
|
Required |
0701053 |
Genetics |
48 |
3 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Required |
0703103 |
Experiments in Genetics |
32 |
1 |
|
32 |
|
5 |
|
Required |
0701112 |
Biostatistics |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Required |
0702781 |
Fundamentals of Pharmacology |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Required |
0701262 |
Genomics |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Required |
0702912 |
Proteomics |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Required |
0705062 |
Metabonomics |
16 |
1 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Major-specific Core Courses |
Required |
0700691 |
Instrumental Analysis |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
4 |
Required |
0701273 |
Bioinformatics |
56 |
3.5 |
|
|
16 |
4 |
|
Required |
0703343 |
Bioinformatic Perl Programming |
16 |
1 |
|
|
8 |
4 |
|
Required |
0704722 |
Bioinformatics Resources & Practice |
48 |
3 |
|
|
24 |
5 |
|
Required |
0703032 |
Systems Biology |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Required |
0704792 |
Experiments in Systems Biology |
32 |
1 |
|
32 |
|
6 |
|
Required |
0706172 |
Quantitative Physiology: Cells & Tissues |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Required |
0704731 |
Bioinformation Data Mining |
48 |
3 |
|
|
16 |
6 |
|
Required |
0701252 |
BioChip |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
continued table |
Course type |
Required/ Elective |
Course code |
Course name |
hrs |
crs |
Including |
Semester |
||
extra-cur. |
exp. |
operation |
|||||||
Major-specific Electives |
|
|
|
96 |
7 |
|
|
|
|
Elective |
0703384 |
Molecular Design for Pharmaceutical |
32 |
2 |
|
|
16 |
7 |
|
Elective |
0827981 |
Java and Bioinformatics Software Design & Development |
32 |
2 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
Elective |
0700991 |
Biophysics |
48 |
3 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Elective |
0714112 |
Biomedical sensor,Testing and Instrumentation |
40 |
2.5 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Elective |
0714122 |
Experiments in Biomedical sensor,Detection and Instrumentation |
24 |
0.8 |
|
24 |
|
6 |
|
Elective |
0703954 |
Experiments in Bioscience |
48 |
1.5 |
|
48 |
|
5 |
|
Elective |
0702761 |
Anatomy and Physiology |
64 |
4 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Elective |
0702772 |
Experiments in Anatomy and Physiology |
32 |
1 |
|
32 |
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Practical Training Items |
Required |
1300013 |
Military Training |
2w |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
Required |
1300536 |
Perceive Practice |
1w |
0.5 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Required |
1306051 |
Safe Education |
1w |
0.5 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Required |
1302331 |
Industrial Practice |
2w |
1 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Required |
1304411 |
Electrical Engineering Practice |
2w |
1 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
Required |
1327694 |
Engineering Internship |
4w |
2 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Required |
130044a |
Research Training |
1w |
0.5 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
Required |
130042a |
Course Project |
2w |
1 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
Required |
130004a |
Undergraduate Thesis |
16w |
8 |
|
|
|
8 |