New Elective Course in Biophysics of Viruses

Bachelor/Master (Perspectives on Course Design) 2021-12-20

Abstract

In this project, I am adopting a new elective course in Biophysics of Viruses to fit
within the program curriculum of Masters in Biomedicine Program at Lund University. This is
an undergraduate course on Biophysics of Viruses, which I designed and taught as a part of
Pathobiology curriculum at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
during 2017-2019. This was an interdisciplinary course aimed for veterinary medicine students
as well as biology, chemistry and physics majors. It was offered once per year for a period of
10 weeks. The course was highly popular among students (faculty course evaluation rankings
were as high as 4.5 out of 5) and attended by at 20-25 students each year. In this project, I
assimilated this course syllabus to include teaching activities as well as description requirements
provided by Lund University. I also adopted course content to fit the Biomedicine Program.
This course comprises topics in virology, biophysics, structural biology and state-of-the-art
methodology.