Overview

For this Biotechnology program at University of Maryland University College, you are required to have already gained technical and scientific knowledge of biotechnology through transferred credit and direct experience in the field.

The programme

The major combines laboratory skills and applied coursework with a biotechnology internship experience and upper-level study and helps prepare you to enter the pharmaceutical, agricultural, or biomedical research industries and organizations as a laboratory technician, quality control technician, assay analyst, chemical technician, or bioinformatician.

In your courses, you'll study biological and chemical sciences, biotechniques, bioinstrumentation, bioinformatics, microbiology, molecular biology, and cell biology.

Through your coursework, you will learn how to:

• Practice ethical standards of integrity, honesty, and fairness in scientific practices and professional conduct

• Communicate orally and in writing in a clear, well-organized manner that effectively informs and clarifies scientific principles and lab techniques

• Offer technical support, customer assistance, and cost-benefit analyses regarding biotechnical approaches to the development of products and services

• Use scientific procedures and current and emerging technologies to conduct safe and hygienic laboratory experiments and collect validated and documented data

• Comply with and adhere to national, state, and local standards, policies, protocols, and regulations for laboratory and manufacturing activity

• Apply scientific knowledge and principles, quantitative methods, and technology to think critically and solve complex problems in biotechnology