GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

BIOCHEMISTRY OF CANCER/BYO-6350

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learn general definition about cancer.
Understand mechanism of carcinogenes.
Learn tumor markers.
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Introduction to cancer and general concepts
2. Week	Characteristics of cancer cells
3. Week	Carcinogenes
4. Week	Chemical carcinogens and mechanism of chemical carcinogenes-1
5. Week	Chemical carcinogens and mechanism of chemical carcinogenes-2
6. Week	Oncogenic viruses
7. Week	Cellular oncogenes-1
8. Week	Cellular oncogenes-2
9. Week	Growth factors-1
10. Week	Growth factors-2
11. Week	Tumor suppressor genes
12. Week	Tumour markers-1
13. Week	Tumour markers-2
14. Week	Tumour markers-3
15. Week	.
16. Week	.

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	40
Assignment	0	0
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		40
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		60

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	2	28
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	5	2	10
Searching in Internet and Library			0
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing			0
Preparing a Presentation	4	2	8
Presentation	2	2	4
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	10	1	10
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	5	2	10
Other (should be emphasized)	5	1	5
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			75
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			3
Course Credit (ECTS):			3

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. Aylin Sepici Dinçel)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

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-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(asepicidincel@gmail.com)

Gazi University