e current curriculum adopts new paradigm of education, which are out-comes based education, learner-centered learning, continuous improvement, and international benchmarking and accreditation. The curriculum is periodically updated every five years by following the development processes of the curriculum considering some principles of the curriculum development. This is shown in the following chart:




To complete the learning program, students should take 144 credit units (CU) comprising 108 CU as a compulsory courses and 26 CU as an elective course.

CU compulsary courses

CU

Note

CU of compulsory courses

 

118

The CU courses are distributed into 47 compulsory courses.

CU of elective courses

26

There are 104  available credit unit which is distributed into 52 elective courses and students should take at least 26 course unit.

Total

144

 



Description of figure 3: Topic (T) 1 = Cell and molecular biology; T 2 = Physiology; T 3 = Genetics; T 4 = Structure and Development; T 5 = Biosystematics and Evolution; T 6 = Ecology; T 7 = Basic supporting knowledge of Understanding Biology; T 8 = Research Methodology; T 9   = Entrepreneurship and management; T 10 = Preparation of Biological Specimens; T 11 = Instrumentation of Biology Laboratory; T 12 = Field Biology; T 13 = Food Biology; T 14 = Quality Control in Biology; T 15 = Cell culture; T 16 = Religion: Private and Social LifeT; 17 = Communication.