Course Based Undergraduate Research in Biology
Students in this course will collaborate on current research projects in the laboratories of faculty in various areas of biological sciences. Students will be part of a faculty-led cohort who will pursue hypothesis driven science using laboratory techniques that depend on the faculty member’s area of expertise. This course is structured to provide students with lab safety training, background for the research project, the rationale for the hypothesis, instruction on instrumentation, techniques and experimental design, and hands-on application of a set of laboratory techniques and data analysis tools to test the hypothesis. Students will reflect on their research experience by keeping a detailed laboratory notebook and communicating their results in both oral and written form. This is a course-based faculty-led research experience, not an independent study.
Topics
- Explain the background and rationale for the project and how it tests the proposed hypothesis.
- Plan, carry out, and interpret the results of laboratory experiments.
- Perform modern laboratory techniques to obtain data, and describe the theoretical basis of the laboratory techniques.
- Perform data analysis, and describe the theoretical basis of the data analysis.
- Create and use a laboratory notebook.
- Effectively reflect on and communicate results of laboratory work, in both oral and written form.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
BIOG 1500.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
- Catalogue entry ↗
Catalogue variants
- Course Based Undergraduate Research in Biology · 2.0-4.0 · Undergraduate