Concepts in Modern Genetics
About the course
'Concepts in Modern Genetics' (551-0309-00L) is a concept course in the biology bachelor curricula of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. It is taught for 4 hours weekly in the fall semester to third-year bachelor or master students and is attended by approximately 100 students.
This course is taught by Prof. Yves Barral, Dr. Daniel Bopp (UZH), Prof. Alex Hajnal (UZH), Prof. Olivier Voinnet, and Prof. Markus Stoffel.
CAL support
This course has been re-designed as a flipped-classroom course containing 2 hours of self-study, 2 hours of discussion, 4 hours of frontal lecture, and 2 hours of exercises per topic. CAL developed a script in form of online lessons with conceptual questions that students work on in preparation for the lecture. The topics of the course were adapted to meet recent developments in genetics research. The acceptance of this course transformation was analyzed using evaluations and monitoring how students used the self-study material.