The Curriculum for
- Bachelor i biokemi og molekylærbiologi
§ 1 - Description of the Programme
§ 1.1 - Programme
Programme titles
(Bachelor of Science (BSc))Ministerial orders
Bekendtgørelse om ændring af bekendtgørelse om ankenævn for afgørelser om merit i universitetsuddannelser (meritankenævnsbekendtgørelsen) (BEK nr 880 af 26/08/2019)
Bekendtgørelse om ankenævn for afgørelser om merit i universitetsuddannelser (meritankenævnsbekendtgørelsen) (BEK nr 1517 af 16/12/2013)
Bekendtgørelse om universitetsuddannelser tilrettelagt på heltid (BEK nr 2285 af 01/12/2021)
Bekendtgørelse om adgang til universitetsuddannelser tilrettelagt på heltid (BEK nr 69 af 26/01/2023)
Bekendtgørelse om talentinitiativer på de videregående uddannelser på Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriets område (talentbekendtgørelsen) (BEK nr 597 af 08/03/2015)
Bekendtgørelse om eksamener og prøver ved universitetsuddannelser (BEK nr 2271 af 01/12/2021)
Bekendtgørelse om karakterskala ved uddannelser på Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriets område (BEK nr 1125 af 04/07/2022)
ECTS value
180Academic Study Board
The Study Board for ScienceLanguage
DanishCities
OdenseSemesters
AutumnLevel
Bachelor§ 1.2 - Aim of Programme, including any professional profile and specialisations
Cf. Uddannelsesbekendtgørelsen §§ 1-4
The Bachelor and Master’s programmes are independent research-based educational courses with a set amount of ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer System) aiming to make the student qualified to independently perform professional functions based on knowledge and practical proficiencies in several subject areas. A subject area consists of a single subject or a group of related subjects within the natural sciences.
The aim of the Bachelors’s programme is to:
- expand the student’s academic knowledge and proficiencies and increase the theoretical and methodical qualifications and skills with a higher level of independence compared to the Bachelor programme.
- give the student an academic immersion through the application of advanced elements within the disciplines and methods of the subject areas, including training in scientific work and methods which will develop the student’s skills in performing specialised professional functions along with participating in work related to scientific development and,
- qualify the student for further education, including the ph.d. programme.
Additional provisions of the Study Board
The BSc and MSc programmes in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology revolve around the chemical processes that take place in the cell, between cells and between organs; processes that create the dynamics that characterise the living organism. Biochemistry is also ‘the chemistry of life’. Molecular biology describes how the genetic information contained in the genes of DNA is expressed in each cell and transferred from the original mother cell to the daughter cells during cell division. The boundary between these two scientific disciplines is no longer clearly defined because the expression of genetic information is also a biochemical process, while the biochemical reactions of the cell are regulated via gene expression. Biochemistry and molecular biology also involve fundamental parts of cell biology, genetics and microbiology. In addition, bioinformatics, which is computer-based interpretation of complex experimental data, is playing an increasingly important role. Biochemistry and molecular biology apply knowledge and methods from other scientific disciplines – especially chemistry – but biology, mathematics and physics are also necessary prerequisites for fully understanding the theory and experimental part of the subjects.
- The application of molecular biology and biomedicine in relation to the field of science
- basic insight into the key concepts of molecular biology and biochemistry
- particular focus on experimental and practical skills, as Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is essentially an experimental discipline
- qualifications aimed at an advanced research-based course of study
- Knowledge: This category is related to the specific programme or the specific course and covers the level of comprehension and reflection within a subject area in relation to the terms, theories, methods and scientific problems of the area.
- Skills: This category is aimed explicitly at the performance of practical skills, professional ethics and responsibility.
- Competences: This category entails the graduate’s personal and independent application of knowledge and skills. These competences are universal, not limited to the individual programme or course. Instead, they include skills such as analysis and abstract thinking, an attitude for learning, the ability to participate in academic and interdisciplinary collaboration, communicative skills and the graduate’s ability to acquire new knowledge and structure his/her own learning.
§ 1.3 - Didactic and pedagogical basis
§ 1.4 - Profiles
BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2023 and 2024
BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2022
BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2021
BSc Biochemistry and molecular biology with special minor in Chemistry 40 ECTS - Registration 1 September 2021
No longer apllicable 31st August 2024 BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2022
No longer applicable 31st August 2024 BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2023
§ 2 - Enrollment
§ 2.1 - Tuition
§ 2.2 - Entry requirements
Cf. Adgangsbekendtgørelsen § 4
Enrolment in a Bachelor’s degree programme requires a passed upper secondary education as well as fulfilment of other entry requirements. The university may decide that the applicant must pass an entrance examination. Finally, admission may require the applicant to meet language requirements and set grade requirements.
Additional provisions of the Study Board:
In reference with Adgangsbekendtgørelsen § 4, the specific entry requirements are:
- Danish level A
- English level B
- Mathematics level A
- As well as one of the following three subject combinations: 1) Physics B and Chemistry B, 2) Physics B and Biotechnology A, 3) Geoscience A and Chemistry B or Chemistry B, Biology A and Physics C.
The specific entry requirements must be passed with a minimum grade of 02 on average of the grades in each subject.
§ 3 - Structure and Progression
§ 3.1 - The structure of the programme
- A programme of 180 ECTS with only a major subject
- A programme of 180 ECTS with both a major and minor subject where the major subject is worth 135 ECTS and is within the subject area of science and the minor subject is worth 45 ECTS and within the subject area of science
- A programme of 180 ECTS with both a major and a minor subject where the major subject is worth 135 ECTS and is within the subject area of science and the minor subject is worth 45 ECTS and is within the subject area of science. Both the major and the minor subjects are taught at upper secondary school.
- A programme of 180 ECTS with both a major and a minor subject where the major subject is worth 135 ECTS and is within the subject area of science and the minor subject is worth 45 ECTS and is outside of the subject area of science. Both the major and the minor subjects are taught at upper secondary school.
- A minor subject of 45 ECTS within the subject area of science and a major subject outside of the subject area of science. Both the major and the minor subjects are taught at upper secondary school.
- An interdisciplinary elective subject of 45 ECTS within the subject area of science and a major subject outside of the subject area of science.
- The Danish and English title of the course
- The level of the course (bachelor’s, master’s or PhD courses)
- The institute and lecturer
- The extent of the course indicated by ECTS
- Admission requirements
- Expected qualifications
- Purpose
- Goal description
- Contents
- Which language the course is in
- Exam form
- Teaching methods
- The dates and times of the lectures
- When the course has last been updated
The number of the course description indicate its level:
- 1XX: Master’s courses
- 2XX: PhD courses
- 5XX: Bachelor’s courses
- 8XX: Master’s courses
- 9xx: Master's courses (AO: 'Akademisk overbygningsuddannelse')
- When the last lesson will be held
- When the last exams will be conducted
- Which course you should attend instead of the cancelled one
- Which exam(s) you should take instead of the cancelled one(s)
- Potential rules regarding credit transfers from expired programme regulations to the newest one
- Potential rules regarding service registration for exams
- Whether there is a risk of expulsion if the transition rules are not followed
§ 3.2 - Connection between entry requirements and the first year
§ 4 - Course descriptions
§ 4.1 - Course descriptions
BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2023 and 2024
BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2022
BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2021
BSc Biochemistry and molecular biology with special minor in Chemistry 40 ECTS - Registration 1 September 2021
No longer apllicable 31st August 2024 BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2022
No longer applicable 31st August 2024 BSc major in Biochemistry and molecular biology - Registration 1 September 2023
BMB500: Studieintroduktion for Biomedicin, Biokemi og Molekylær Biologi
BMB536: Metabolsk og hormonel regulering
BMB539: Anvendelser af matematik i lifescience
BMB538: Cellulær Identitet
BMB543: Biomedicinsk Mikrobiologi
BMB546: Cellulær udvikling
BABMB501: Bachelorprojekt i biokemi og molekylær biologi
BMB509: Bioanalytisk instrumentering
BMB540: Fysisk Biokemi
BMB532: Fundamental Biokemi
MM555: Matematik for Biokemi og Molekylær Biologi, Biomedicin og Kemi
BMB533: Molekylær biologi og proteinkemi
BMB511: Introduktion til Computational Biology
BMB548: Biomolekylær massespektrometri og kromatografi
FY527: Fysik A
BMB544: Grundlæggende cellebiologi
BMB512: Teoretisk immunologi
FA505: Naturstofkemi og farmakognosi
FA506: Medicinalkemi A
KE504: Analytisk spektroskopi
KE521: Grundstoffernes Kemi
KE540: Kvantekemi og Modellering
KE548: Bæredygtig kemi og innovation
KE556: Spektroskopi og mikroskopi af biomolekyler
NAT500: Studiestartsprøve
FF501: Førsteårsprojekt
BMB531: Sygdomme hos mennesket
BMB508: Avanceret Molekylær Biologi
BMB507: Fundamental mikrobiologi
KE505: Organisk Kemi
BMB547: Molekylær Data Science
KE555: Organisk kemi for Biokemi og Molekylærbiologi.
KE506: Syntese
BMB550: Eksperimentel Life Science
KE501: Grundlæggende kemi
ST520: Anvendt statistik
KE525: Uorganisk Kemi A
§ 5 - Examination provisions
§ 5.1 - Programme passing requirements
§ 5.2 - Start of study exam
Cf. Eksamensbekendtgørelsen § 28
The university may decide that students must participate in and pass a start of study exam in order to continue the programme. The purpose of the start of study exam is to clarify whether a student has actually participated in the start of the programme. The exam is internal and will be evaluated with “Approved” or “Not approved”. The start of study exam will be conducted no later than 2 months after the start of the programme and the result must be given to students no later than 2 weeks after the exam. If a student does not pass the exam, they may do a re-exam which is conducted no later than 3 months after the start of the programme. Students have 2 exam attempts to pass the start of study exam.
§ 5.3 - First year exam
§ 5.4 - Spelling and writing skills
§ 5.5 - Evaluation of examinations and tests
§ 5.6 - Exam language
§ 5.7 - Forms of assessment
§ 5.8 - Ordinary exams
§ 5.9 - Reexams
Cf. Eksamensbekendtgørelsen § 12
The university may deviate from the stipulated examination or test form in a re-examination.This does not apply, however, for Bachelor projects or Master’s theses. It may be established in the programme regulations that the reexam has another form and/or evaluation than the ordinary exam. including the criteria for when the alternative examination or test form will be used.
§ 5.10 - Exam attempts
§ 5.11 - Requirements for exams
§ 5.12 - Digital exams and aids
§ 5.13 - Special examination conditions
§ 5.14 - Irregularities at exams
§ 5.15 - Group exams
§ 6 - Credit transfer
§ 6.1 - Transfer of credit
§ 6.2 - Transfer of credit
§ 6.3 - Credit
§ 6.4 - Extemptions
§ 7 - Provisions on the organisation of the programme
§ 7.1 - Enrolment and unenrolment from teaching and exams
§ 7.2 - Permission to enrol in courses from a Master’s degree programme
§ 7.3 - Deadline for programme completion
- Bachelor degree programme must be completed within the standardised study period + 1 year
- A 2-year Master’s degree programme must be completed within the standardised study period + ½ year
- A 2½-year Master’s degree programme must be completed within the standardised study period + ½ yea
- Master's degree for working professionals must be completed within the standardised study period + ½ year
- "AO" (Akademisk overbygningsuddannelse) - Master's degree must be completed within the standardised study period + 1 year
§ 7.4 - Study activity
§ 7.5 - Bachelors project
§ 7.6 - Leave
§ 7.7 - Limitation on the number of entries
§ 7.8 - Minor, elective subject and elective
§ 7.9 - Talent
§ 8 - Exemptions and complaints procedures
§ 8.1 - Dispensation from University regulations
§ 8.2 - Complaints over exams
§ 8.3 - Complaints over University decisions
§ 9 - The affiliation of the programme
§ 9.1 - Legal basis
- Uddannelsesbekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 2285 of 1 December 2021 regarding university programmes scheduled as full-time studies.
- Eksamensbekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 2271 of 1 December 2021 regarding exams and grading in university programmes
- Karakterbekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 1125 of 4th July 2022 regarding grading scale and other forms of evaluation in educational programmes within the area of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science
- Universitetsadgangsbekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 51 of 14 January 2024 regarding admission to university degree programmes scheduled as full-time studies
- Talentbekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 597 of 8 March 2015 regarding talent initiatives within the area of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science
- Ph.d.-bekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 1039 of 27 August 2013 regarding PhD programmes at universities and certain art programmes
- Meritbekendtgørelsen: Ministerial order No. 826 of 16 June 2023 regarding decisions concerning credits for university programmes