[Air-l] Question about undergrad courses on computing for Biology

[mboudour at upatras.gr]

Hello Air,

Next semester I am going to teach an undergrad course on computing for 
students of Biology in my University. Up to last year, I was just 
coordinating a group of co-workers graduate students who were presenting 
the elements and history of computing and the Internet together with 
some very introductory lessons on how to use MS Office and to surf the net.

Since our students' computer literacy is becoming better every year and it 
appears in the recent years that almost all of them already have acquired 
a satisfactory level of computer skills (either by their own or in high 
school), I was thinking to do something more interesting this year.

What I would like to do in this course might be an introduction to 
elementary ideas in CMC and a first discussion of the social impact of new 
media. Moreover, I was thinking of presenting some basic ideas of how the 
configurations of distributed knowledge or e-science might be used by 
Biology students and professionals.

So, I would like to ask you to give me your suggestions about possible 
undergrad courses on computing for Biology or other relevant introductory 
courses that you might know (and that are around basic CMC and impact or 
e-science facts). Of course, net resources (links of syllabi, online 
courses etc.) are mostly welcomed.

Best,

--Moses

  M.A. Boudourides
  Associate Professor
 
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Patras
  265 00 Rio-Patras
  Greece

  Tel.: +30-2610-996318
  Fax:  +30-2610-996318, +30-2610-992965 

  http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour