Exploration on Teaching Reform of Genetic Engineering

Abstract

Exploring the new teaching model of Genetic Engineering can enhance the teaching quality and ultimately cultivate innovative “Emerging Engineering” talents for biopharmacy major. Through introducing frontier scientific research progress to optimize course contents based on classic textbook, using modern multimedia tools and heuristic to enrich teaching methods, expanding explorative and comprehensive experiments to improve experimental teaching, and carrying out student’s scientific research projects and enterprise internship, it promotes learning for practice. Through the in-depth cooperation between classroom teaching and extracurricular practice, the genetic engineering curriculum has been transformed from "teaching-based" into "learning-oriented" and eventually "application-oriented", and the teaching efficiency has been drastically improved. It has greatly arouse students' learning interest and initiative, cultivated their logical thinking ability, professional skill and creativity on scientific research. Most importantly, it transformed theoretical learning to practical application, which benefits to the cultivation of the “Emerging Engineering” talents. Keywords—Genetic Engineering; Biopharmacy; Emerging Engineering; Teaching Reform; Teaching Practice