• Basic information
• Learning outcomes
• Contents
• Assessment
• Workload

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Gain knowledge about biosafety issues

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Biology
   2. Acquire scientific knowledge and work independently,
   3. Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge.
   4. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   5. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   6. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
2. Discuss biotechnological applications related to biosafety

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define the relationship among life forms and their environments and ecosystems
   2. Ability to work independently and take responsibility
   3. Acquire scientific knowledge and work independently,
   4. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   5. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   6. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
3. Identify risk groups and biosafety levels

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define the relationship among life forms and their environments and ecosystems
   2. Ability to work independently and take responsibility
   3. Acquire scientific knowledge and work independently,
   4. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   5. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   6. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
4. Gain knowledge about common methods of laboratory waste treatment and waste management plan

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Ability to work independently and take responsibility
   2. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   3. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   4. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
5. Discuss regulations for Turkish and International standards

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Acquire scientific knowledge and work independently,
   2. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   3. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   4. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
6. Identify ethical theories and methods relevant to bioethics

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define the relationship among life forms and their environments and ecosystems
   2. Ability to work independently and take responsibility
   3. Acquire scientific knowledge and work independently,
   4. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   5. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   6. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
7. Interpret important ethical questions within a range of areas such as medicine, environment and genetics

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define the relationship among life forms and their environments and ecosystems
   2. Ability to work independently and take responsibility
   3. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility.
   4. Understand the importance of identification, utilization and maintenance of the biological diversity in the country.
   5. Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam

Contents
Week 1:	Introduction to Biosafety
Week 2:	The effects of biotecnological applications on human health and biodiversity
Week 3:	Transgenic applications, Advantages and disadvantages of Genetically modified organisms
Week 4:	Food safety criteria and risks (Chemical, microbiological and socioeconomic)
Week 5:	Biosafety in the laboratuary; Risk groups, Chemicals, Microorganisms, their risks and safety, working with Radiation, risks and safety
Week 6:	Biosafety levels, Contaminations, Sterilization, Disinfection, Antisepsis, Spread, Flammability Medical surveillance Accidents, Waste management, Transport
Week 7:	Personnel training, Preparing Registration forms (rDNA registration forms, Cell cultures registration forms, Pathogen microorganisms registration forms, Human blood registration forms, Human material (tissue etc.) registration forms, Laboratuary animals registration forms
Week 8:	Midterm exam
Week 9:	Biosafety Responsables: Responsibilities of Institutional Biosafety Office, Ministry of Health and Environment, Health care services at the universities, Laboratuary personnel, Technical personnel, Cleaning personnel
Week 10:	Biosafety protocols and regulations (Regulatory framework in different countries and Turkey, Manuals for regulations) National and international guidelines assuring compliance with biosafety regulations (NIH, Merck etc.).
Week 11:	Introduction to Bioethics
Week 12:	Medical ethics and Industrial ethics
Week 13:	Ethics at clinical and biological laboratories
Week 14:	Genetics and ethics
Week 15*:	Public health and safety, general review
Week 16*:	Final exam
Textbooks and materials:	1- Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences-Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies, National Academies press, 2006. 2- Tom L. Beauchamp, LeRoy Walters, Jeffey p. Kahn, Mastroianni “Contemporary Issues in Bioethics” Wadsworth Publishing Company, 7th edition, 2007.
Recommended readings:	Laboratory Biosecurity Handbook-Reynolds M. Salerno, Jennifer Gaudioso, CRC Press; 1 edition, 2007
	* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.

Assessment
Method of assessment	Week number	Weight (%)
Mid-terms:	8	40
Other in-term studies:		0
Project:		0
Homework:		0
Quiz:		0
Final exam:	16	60
	Total weight:	(%)

Workload
Activity	Duration (Hours per week)	Total number of weeks	Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching):	3	14
Own studies outside class:	7	14
Practice, Recitation:	0	0
Homework:	0	0
Term project:	0	0
Term project presentation:	0	0
Quiz:	0	0
Own study for mid-term exam:	20	1
Mid-term:	2	1
Personal studies for final exam:	20	1
Final exam:	2	1
		Total workload:
		Total ECTS credits:	*
	* ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25. (1 ECTS = 25 work hours)