Goals of Student Learning (2019-2020)

In 2019/2020 session, I taught three subjects: (1) Introduction to Entrepreneurship (UHAK1032), (2) Biological Control and Environmental Conservation (SMBB3573) and (3) Bioorganic Chemistry (SSCG1103) for biology students at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, UTM. UHAK1032 is a new subject that I taught. It is a university subject and compulsory to all undergraduate students. The main goal for biology student learned entrepreneurship is to have entrepreneurial mindset, and it is expected that the graduated students will not rely only getting employed but trying to become an entrepreneur after graduation. In this subject, students were exposed to entrepreneurial by experiential learning where the students need to set up a business and sell the product.

 

 

The main goal for Biological Control subject is the understanding of different types and strategies of biological controls especially in agricultural systems. For Bioorganic Chemistry subject, the main goal for student is to understand the basic concept of organic chemistry and after that applying the concept in solving problems related to the organic chemistry topic. The general goals for student learning for these two subjects are almost similar in which the students need to understand and apply knowledge of biology in solving various issues. Besides that, there are several other goals that students need to achieve at the end of the course especially their generic skills including communication skill, critical thinking and problem solving, teamworking and digital skills. These goals are achieved through various T&L activities and assessment methods such as lectures, quizzes, tutorials, active learning, cooperative learning, assignments etc. The assignments are designed in such that students will be able to improve their generic skills. For Biological Control subject, the assignments involved preparation of technical report using Google form and submit through Elearning, presentation assignment and case study explanation in WIKI module in Elearning. These assignments are focusing on critical thinking and problem solving skills, ethics and professionalism and contemporary issues. For Bioorganic Chemistry subject, assessments like quizzes, tutorial and test could improve the understanding of the basic concept of organic chemistry, whereas there were two assignments for improving their thinking and communication skills. These T&L activities were also supported using Elearning and Facebook group to ease the communication between lecturer and students and to increase our T&L productivity. These structured activities also inspire and support high expectation of students learning.