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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• General Biology & Lab • Laboratory safety
• General Chemistry & Lab • Use of common lab equipment &
• Calculus I preparation of solutions
• Written and Oral • Statistical analysis of
Communications I experimental data
• First Year Experience • Acid-base titrations &
• Human Biology & Lab titration curves
• General Chemistry II & Lab • Conductivity measurements
• Calculus II • Electrochemistry
• Economic Principles • Gravimetric analysis
• Determine reaction rates, reaction
order, rate constants, activation
energy, and heats of reaction
• Molecular biology techniques
• Microscopy
• Dissection of organ
systems & organisms
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Ecology • Sterile technique
• Biological Techniques I • Electrophoretic techniques: SDS-
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab PAGE, DNA gels & Western blotting
• Introduction to the Humanities • Nucleic acid isolation
• Biological Techniques II & manipulation
• Survey of Organic Chemistry • Molecular cloning
• Biostatistics I • Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Introduction to Social Sciences • Protein purification techniques
• Biological assays
• Protein quantification
Get In The Lab • Literature searches
• Chemical & biological safety
Kettering’s professors teach students • Experimental design
the fundamentals of biological and
chemical properties and interactions Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
as well as providing them with • Immunoassays – ELISA
opportunities to perform experiments • Organic Chemistry I & Lab
with instrumentation not used by • Microbiology & Lab • Site-directed mutagenesis
• Microbiology techniques
most undergraduates. • Biostatistics II
• Organic Chemistry II • Enzyme activity and kinetic assays
First year Applied Biology students look • Molecular Biology and Lab • Microbe identification
at human tissues and microorganisms, • Written and Oral & differentiation
dissect organisms as well as learn Communication II • Crystallization. recrystallization,
basic safety and lab skills such as • Technical Elective extraction, & distillation techniques
pipetting, solution preparation and • Synthesis, isolation & characterization
the operation of basic laboratory of organic reactions
equipment. In their second year, they • Catalysis & Functional group tests
are introduced to some of the most State-of-the-Art • Analytical techniques such as TLC,
widely used experimental procedures LAB GC, GC/MS, HPLC, NMR &
in the biotechnological field including FACILITIES UV/Vis spectrophotometry
sterile technique, nucleic acid isolation, • Multi-step syntheses, isolation &
manipulation and amplification, characterization of organic reactions
electrophoretic techniques, tissue
culture, various biological assays and Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
protein isolation techniques. Juniors
and Seniors further their knowledge • Biochemistry I & Lab • Kinetics of reactions
and expertise in Molecular Biology, • Cellular Biology & Lab • Enzymology
Cellular Biology, Microbiology, Genetics • Genetics • Protein expression & isolation
and other advanced topics. • Advanced Humanities Elective • Site-directed mutagenesis
• Two Advanced Topics in • Real time PCR
The Applied Biology program boasts Biology & Labs • cDNA synthesis & purification
a new state-of-the-art teaching • Senior Seminar: Leadership, Ethics, • Molecular cloning
lab suite featuring General/ and Cont. Iss. • Cell culture techniques
Microbiology Lab, Molecular/Cellular • Senior Research/Seminar • Chemiluminescence
Biology Lab, Advanced Topics • Advanced Social Sciences Elective • Electrophoretic techniques
Lab, student and faculty research • Two Free Elective • Experimental design
space, a Tissue Culture facility, and • Two Technical Elective
cutting-edge instrumentation.
