Microbiology

Microbiology plays an important role in human daily life, and it is also the theoretical and technical foundation of modern biotechnology. Therefore, microbiology has always been one of the core courses for all majors in life science. With the rapid development of microbiology in recent years, the most advanced and most cutting-edge research results in this field are often recorded in English literature. English teaching of this course will lay a good foundation for students to closely follow the research frontier of this field. At the same time, the microbiology course has the following characteristics, such as a wide range of knowledge, numerous professional terms and memorization content, while less time for our students to learn, understand and memorize the critical points. To solve these existing problems, we design this course carefully and responsibly and we intend to achieve two goals through our course design. Firstly, to improve students' learning enthusiasm and to inspire their critical thinking. Secondly, to cultivate students' ability to utilize professional English. Considering the reality of students' knowledge levels, the curriculum structure and teaching types of this course will be designed in various perspectives, such as using the mixture of different teaching content, teaching mode and teaching resources, by which we aim to stimulate students' motivation, to arouse students' interest and to improve their ability. During the process of this course, students are recommended to read literature, which simultaneously promotes them to learn individually and to broaden their horizons. In addition, loads of realistic examples related to microbial life activities in daily life and scientific research activities are selected as cases in this course, thus we intend to stimulate students' interest in learning microbiology.