Specialty in Biopharmaceutics-College of Life Science & Technology

Ⅰ. Program Objective

Biopharmaceutics is an emerging cross-disciplinary area that has revolutionized the traditional industry and research in the 21th century. Students with training in Biopharmacetics are highly desirable for pharmaceutical industry in research, development, production, testing and quality control as well as academic research in biochemistry, biotechnology and pharmaceutical engineering. Our goal is to provide students with solid foundation in Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Science; versatile skills in Biotechnology, Nano-technology and Modern Pharmaceutical Technology; and broad knowledge of multiple bio-pharmaceutical related fields as competitive and independent researchers or scientists.

Ⅱ. Learning Outcomes

Students will have a solid understanding of basic knowledge of chemistry, biology and medicine and receive training in pharmaceutical engineering. Graduates are qualified for jobs in pharmaceutical research and development, and will play a key role in the technology transformation.

Graduates should be given the following knowledge and abilities:

1. Master chemistry, biology, medicine and other basic theories and knowledge;

2. Master the basic principle and experimental skills of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and modern pharmaceutical technology.

3. Be familiar with the national laws and regulations, guidelines and intellectual property policies in Biomedical industry, to understand the new developments in biomedical technology, the dynamic and prospects, the development of bio-pharmaceutical industry;

4. Skilled use of network information technology, with a strong literature search, reading and written skills in English;

5. Has a certain experimental design, experimental operation, result analysis, thesis writing, and academic exchange capacity;

6. Certain research and development capabilities of biological drugs.

Ⅲ. Program Highlights

This is a student-oriented-program with the objective to motivate students’ interests in biopharmaceutic profession, and maximize students’ potential in research and creativity. The goal of the program is to produce students for modern professionals for biomedical industry with focus on the biotechnology medicine and special interest in the nanomedicine.

Ⅳ. Main Disciplines

Chemistry, Biology, Pharmaceutics

Ⅴ. Program Length and Degree

Duration：4 years

Degrees Conferred：Bachelor of Engineering

Ⅵ. Credits Hours and Units

Minimum Curricular Credits for the completion of degree (including courses practical internship ): 160 credits. Major-related basic courses and core courses cannot be covered using credits from other courses in the program. Minimum Extracurricular Credits: 5 credits.

1. Course Credits Hours and Units

Course type		Required/Elective	Hrs/Crs	Percentage (%)
General Education Core Curriculum		Required	992/56.3	38.2
General Education Core Curriculum		Elective	160/10	6.1
General Basic Subdisciplinary		Required	480/25.6	18.5
Major-specific courses	Core	Required	816/43.3	31.3
Major-specific courses	Elective	Elective	152/8.8	5.9
Total			2600/144	100

2. Practicum Credits

Course Title	Required/Elective	Wks/Crs	Percentage（％）
Military Training	Required	2/1	6.3
Safety Education	Required	1/0.5	3.2
Perceive Practice	Required	1/0.5	3.2
Industrial Practice	Required	2/1	6.3
Research Training	Required	2/1	6.3
Engineering Internship	Required	4/2	12.5
Course Project	Required	4/2	12.5
Undergraduate Thesis	Required	16/8	50
Total		32/16	100

3. Extracurricular Credits

No.	Activities	Requirements		Extracurricular Credits
1	Community Engagement	Submitting a report and passing the oral defense		1
1	Community Engagement	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
		National Compute Software Qualification	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	Each paper	2~3
5	Research Program	Contribution and research capability	Each Program	1~3
6	Experiments	Innovation capacity	Each Experiment	1~3

Note：In HUST Sports Meeting, the first and the second prize, and the sixth prize to eighth prize are deemed respectively the first prize, the second prize and the third prize of university level.

Ⅶ．Main Courses

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Cellular Biology, Microbiology, Biopharmaceutical technique and Equipment, Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutical Analysis, Introduction to Biopharmaceutics, Preparation Technique of Biomedicines, Bio-Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, Nanopharmaceuticals, Nano-diagnostic and detection technology...

Ⅷ. Practicum Module（Experiments Included）

Physical Experiment, Experiment in Organic Chemistry, Experiment in General Biology, Experiment in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Experiments of Microbiology, Experiments of Biopharmaceutics, Exp. In Biotechnology, Exp. In Nanomedicine, Military Training, Perceive Practice, Engineering Internship, Research Training, Course Project, Undergraduate Thesis...

Ⅸ．Course Schedule

School (Department): School of Life Science & Technology Specialty: Biopharmaceutics

Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	Including			Semester
Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	extra-cur.	exp.	operation	Semester
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	0100733	Basic Theory of Marxism	40	2.5	8			3
	Required	0100932	Social Practice of Ideological and Political Theories Course	24	1.5	20			2
	Required	0100322	General Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and Socialist Theory with Chinese Characteristics	56	3.5				4
	Required	0100741	Situation and Policy	32	2	14			1-6
	Required	0510071	Chinese	32	2	10			2
	Required	0508453	Comprehensive English （I）	56	3.5				1
	Required	0508463	Comprehensive English （II）	56	3.5				2
	Required	0700011	Calculus (Ⅰ) Part I	88	5.5				1

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Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	Including			Semester
Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	extra-cur.	exp.	operation	Semester
General Education Core Curriculum	Required	0700012	Calculus (Ⅰ) Part II	88	5.5				2
	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	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
	Required	0827781	Fundamental of Computer Programming (C++)	48	3			8	1
	Required	0833174	Technology and Application of Database	32	2			8	2
	Required	0700063	Probability and Statistics (Ⅲ)	40	2.5				3
			Electives in Humanities and Social Science	160	10
Discipline-related General Courses	Required	0707311	Basic Chemistry for Higher Medical Education	88	5.5				1
	Required	0700122	Organic Chemistry	64	4				2
	Required	0703485	Exp. Of Organic Chemistry	32	1		32		2
	Required	0702725	Physical Chemistry	32	2				3
	Required	0703497	Exp. Of Physical Chemistry	32	1		32		3
	Required	1002761	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ⅰ	56	3.5				3
	Required	1002771	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ⅱ	32	2				4

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Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	Including			Semester
Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	extra-cur.	exp.	operation	Semester
	Required	1002782	Experiments in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ⅰ	24	0.8		24		3
	Required	1002792	Experiments in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ⅱ	24	0.8		24		4
	Required	0702761	Anatomy and Physiology	64	4				5
	Required	0702772	Experiments in Anatomy and Physiology	32	1		32		5
Core courses in specialty	Required	0714141	Introduction to pharmaceutics	16	1				1
	Required	0702781	Fundamentals of Pharmacology	32	2				1
	Required	0701411	Medicinal Chemistry	32	2				3
	Required	1001092	Medical Cellular Biology	40	2.5				4
	Required	0707731	Exp. of Medical Cellular Biology	24	0.8		24		4
	Required	1000044	Pharmacology	48	3				4
	Required	1002305	Pharmaceutics	48	3				3
	Required	0701653	Microbiology	48	3				4
	Required	0701665	Experiments in Microbiology	32	1		32		4
	Required	0707331	Experiments of Biopharmaceutics	64	2		64		7
	Required	0701093	Fermentation Engineering	32	2				5
	Required	0705031	Principle of Gene Engineering	32	2				6
	Required	0701065	Experiments in Biotechnology	64	2		64		6
	Required	0714161	Biopharmaceutical Analysis	32	2				7
	Required	1003962	Exp. of Biopharmaceutical Analysis	32	1		32		7
	Required	1002231	Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics	32	2				5
	Required	0717022	Preparation Technique of Biomedicines	48	3				6

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Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	Including			Semester
Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	extra-cur.	exp.	operation	Semester
Core courses in specialty	Required	0704011	Biopharmaceutical technique and Equipment	32	2				6
	Required	0717032	Nanopharmaceuticals	32	2				5
	Required	0714192	Introduction of Nano-biomaterials	32	2				5
	Required	0714202	Nano-diagnostic and detection technology	32	2				5
	Required	0707341	Exp. In Nanomedicine	32	1		32		6
Elective courses in specialty			Elective in Specialty Biopharmaceutics	152	8.8
	Elective	0703051	Immunology	32	2				4
	Elective	0707261	Experiments in Immunology	24	0.8		24		4
	Elective	1002363	Pharmaceutical Botany	32	2				5
	Elective	0701182	Enzyme Engineering	32	2				5
	Elective	0704241	Bioseparation Technology	32	2				6
	Elective	0703121	Phytochemistry or Chemistry of Natural Products	32	2				6
	Elective	0717061	Nano-oncology	32	2				7
	Elective	0717071	Molecular Medical Imaging	32	2				7
	Elective	0703384	Molecular Design for Pharmaceutical	32	2			16	7

Practical Training Items	Required	1300013	Military Training	2w	1				1
	Required	1306051	Safety Education	1w	1				0.5
	Required	1300536	Perceive Practice	1w	0.5				1
	Required	1302331	Industrial Practice	2w	1				3

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Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	Including			Semester
Course type	Required/ Elective	Course code	Course name	hrs	crs	extra-cur.	exp.	operation	Semester
Practical Training Items	Required	1300446	Research Training	2w	1				5
	Required	1327694	Engineering Internship	4w	2				6
	Required	130042b	Course Project	4w	2				7
	Required	130004a	Undergraduate Thesis	16w	8				8

Required/Elective