Fall and Winter 2020-21 Course Specific Details
This page will be continuously updated.
| Course Code | Course Title | Details Subject to change |
Course Info Sheet |
| BIOL 1010 | Biotechnology and Society | Asynchronous. One 3 hour lecture per week. | |
| BIOL 1103 | Foundations of Biology I | Blended course. Asynchronous lectures with Synchronous problem-solving sessions. Tests will take place during scheduled class time. | |
| BIOL 1104 | Foundations of Biology II | Blended course. Asynchronous lectures. Tests will take place during scheduled class time. Asynchronous labs. | |
| BIOL 1105 | Biological Methods, Analysis and Interpretation | cuLearn will be used for pre-recorded video content as well as streaming sessions with the prof and TAs. Blended course. The lecture time slot will be used for live sessions and tests. | BIOL 1105 |
| BIOL 2001 | Animals: Form and Function | Blended course. | |
| BIOL 2002 | Plants: Form and Function | Class sessions will be held asynchronously. Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary.
Labs will be held online and blended. While they will mostly asynchronous, some labs will be synchronous meetings taking place during the normally scheduled ‘lab’ section. Lab time commitment will approximately 4 hours / week (3 hour labs, with 1 hour prep time). |
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| BIOL 2005 | Human Physiology | Mostly asynchronous learning. Any blended activities where we have live web sessions will be recorded. | |
| BIOL 2104 | Introductory Genetics | Lecture: Asynchronous.
Labs: Asynchronous. |
BIOL 2104 |
| BIOL 2107 | Fundamentals of Genetics | Blended course. | |
| BIOL/BIOC 2200 | Cellular Biochemistry | Combination of pre-recorded video lectures and lab demonstrations as well as synchronous meetings with the prof, lab coordinators, and TAs during normally scheduled lecture and lab sections. | BIOL-BIOC 2200 |
| BIOC 2300 | Physical Biochemistry | Lectures and tutorials will be synchronous. Tutorials will usually be 1 hour of problem solving followed by discussion, questions/answers period. | |
| BIOL 2301 | Biotechnology I | Class sessions will be held asynchronously. Weekly workshops will be held synchronously.
Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary. |
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| BIOL 2303 | Microbiology | Blended course. Class sessions will be held asynchronously. Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary.
Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary |
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| BIOL 2600 | Ecology | Lectures asynchronous via cuLearn. Labs blended. Tests and exam are synchronous. | |
| BIOL/BIOC 3008
COMP 3308 |
Bioinformatics | Blended. Lectures will take place during scheduled class time and will be recorded. Office hours will be structured time used for student questions and assignments. | BIOC-BIOL 3008 – COMP 3308 |
| BIOC 3101 | General Biochemistry I | Blended. Synchronous lectures will take place during scheduled class time and recorded with BigBlueButton, available on cuLearn, for asynchronous viewing. Tests will take place synchronously. Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary. Asynchronous activities on cuLearn. | |
| BIOC 3102 | General Biochemistry II | Blended. Synchronous lectures will take place during scheduled class time and recorded with BigBlueButton, available on cuLearn, for asynchronous viewing. Tests will take place synchronously. Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary. Asynchronous activities on cuLearn. | |
| BIOC 3103 | Practical Biochemistry I | Blended online lab-based course facilitated through synchronous meetings during the normally scheduled lab time and asynchronous activities on cuLearn. | BIOC 3103 |
| BIOC 3104 | Practical Biochemistry II | Labs: Blended. Synchronous meetings during the normally scheduled lab time and asynchronous activities on cuLearn. | |
| BIOL 3104 | Molecular Genetics | Lectures are delivered Asynchronously. Office hours are flexible. | |
| BIOL 3201 | Cell Biology | Bi-weekly on-line workshop lessons that take 2-3 hours to complete asynchronously. | BIOL 3201 |
| BIOL 3202 | Principles of Developmental Biology | Blended course. | |
| BIOC 3203 | Biochemical Pharmacology | Asynchronous. Two 1.5 hour lectures per week with online assignments. | BIOC 3203 |
| BIOL 3205 | Plant Physiology | Synchronous. The online lab modules will be mostly asynchronous with some (2 or 3) mandatory synchronous meetings. | |
| BIOL 3303 | Experimental Microbiology | Blended course. Scheduled tutorial and lab times will largely be used for synchronous office hours as required. Two sessions will be used for student presentations. Time commitment: ~3 hours / week of recorded lecture and demonstration videos. | BIOL 3303 |
| BIOL 3305 | Human & Comparative Physiology | Blended course. Lectures will be delivered asynchronously with rotating ‘meetings’ with small groups of students during the lecture times.
Lab activities will be delivered asynchronously with weekly or bi-weekly ‘meetings’ with students during scheduled lab times. |
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| BIOL 3306 | Human Anatomy and Physiology | Asynchronous. | |
| BIOL 3307 | Advanced Human Anatomy and Physiology | Blended lecture. Asynchronous labs. | |
| BIOL 3601 | Ecosystem & Environment Change | Blended course. Section A (Wednesdays and Friday mornings) is Synchronous. Sections A05 (Thursday) and A10 (Friday afternoon) are Asynchronous. | |
| BIOL 3602 | Conservation Biology | Blended. Students will be encouraged to participate in class. | |
| BIOL 3604 | Statistics for Biologists | Blended course. | |
| BIOL 3609 | Evolutionary Concepts | Asynchronous. | |
| BIOL 3611 | Evolutionary Ecology | Blended course. A combination of pre-recorded lectures and experiential learning activities. The scheduled time slots will be used for recorded live Q&A sessions and discussions, and office hours. | BIOL 3611 |
| BIOL 3802 | Animal Behaviour | Asynchronous. | |
| BIOC 4004 | Industrial Biochemistry | Blended course. Asynchronous lectures with synchronous student seminars. | |
| BIOC 4008 | Computational Systems Biology | Synchronous. | |
| BIOL 4008 | Molecular Plant Development | Synchronous. Time slot will be used for lectures, exams, and office hours. | BIOL 4008 |
| BIOC 4009 | Biochemistry of Disease | This course will be a combination of asynchronous lectures and bi-weekly synchronous meetings during the normally scheduled lecture timeslots. Synchronous meetings will include class discussions, group learning activities, and student presentations. | |
| BIOL 4103 | Population Genetics | Blended course. Asynchronous lecture material and associated problem sets available on-line. Synchronous meetings will include class discussions, group learning activities, review of relevant literature, and student presentations. | |
| BIOL 4106/5105 | Advances in Molecular Biology | Synchronous. | |
| BIOL 4109 | Molecular Genetics Lab | Blended course. | |
| BIOL/BIOC 4200 | Immunology | Synchronous. | |
| BIOL 4201 | Advanced Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering | Blended course. | |
| BIOL/BIOC 4202 | Mutagenesis and DNA Repair | Blended course. | |
| BIOC 4204 | Protein Biotechnology | Lecture (Mondays): Synchronous
Workshop (Wednesdays): Asynchronous. Workshop material will be posted on Wednesday and due Friday of the same week. |
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| BIOL 4206 | Human Genetics | Blended course. Mostly asynchronous with the exception of presentations. | |
| BIOL 4207 | Advanced Embryology & Developmental Biology | Blended course. Combination of online workshops, recorded demonstrations, and interactive online tutorials. Section A01 is asynchronous. | BIOL 4207 |
| BIOL 4301 | Current Topics in Biotechnology | Blended course. Seminar will be held synchronously. Weekly company meetings are synchronous. Office hours will be held on a weekly basis and synchronously. Participation in office hours is voluntary. | |
| BIOL 4303 | Advances in Microbiology | Synchronous. | |
| BIOL 4309 | Studies in Human Performance | Blended course. At-home exercises will be required to compliment assignments with distributed data sets. | |
| BIOL 4318 | Adaptations to Extreme Environments | Blended course. Roughly 1.5 hrs/week synchronous and 1.5 hrs/week asynchronous in addition to some independent work. | BIOL 4318 |
| BIOL 4500 | The Biology of Birds | Asynchronous | |
| BIOL 4502 | Herpetology | Blended course. Recorded lectures, synchronous workshops. | BIOL 4502 |
| BIOL 4505 | Coral Reefs | Blended course. | |
| BIOL 4506 | Cactus Biology | Blended course. | BIOL 4506 |
| BIOL 4507 | Ecological Parasitology | Blended course. | |
| BIOL 4604 | Landscape Ecology | Blended course. | |
| BIOL 4902 | Forensics | Blended course. Lectures will be recorded. Class time will be used for tests, discussions, guest speakers and practical exercises. | BIOL 4902 B |
| BIOL 4905 | Honours Workshop | Blended course. |