Biosensors is a mandatory 2nd year course for Licence Frontieres du vivant students at the University Paris Descartes.
It is an intensive project-based course aiming to present the interdisciplinary research to undergraduate students in natural sciences.
Learning interdisciplinary research skills
To truly enjoy the research world and conduct meaningful research projects, students should first attempt to learn the basic research skills. Those include understanding the scientific method, creative thinking, making connections, searching for references in published literature, understanding research articles, designing experiments with necessary sample size, repetitions and controls, data analysis, as well as visual, written and spoken communication. Such an extensive list of skills is difficult to develop passively, and the aim of this course is to develop all of them through practice (so called “learning by doing” approach).
Project-based learning
Students of this course conduct several team projects, that introdu
ce, exercise and confirm their capacity to employ interdisciplinary knowledge and research skills on a specific problem. In the beginning, the topics of the projects are more constrained by the teachers, but progressively give more and more freedom to students.
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