马来西亚博特拉大学

About Faculty

The Faculty was first established as the Division of Basic Sciences in 1972. Its objective was to offer basic science courses required by other faculties in the University. In 1975, the status of the division was upgraded to a faculty, and named the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies.

Since then the faculty has gone through several restructuring processes, including the setting up of the Department of Environmental Sciences and the Department of Computer Sciences which later were upgraded to form two new faculties, and the transfer of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology to the newly formed Faculty of Biotechnology and Bimolecular Sciences. Ever since the restructuring, the faculty has been renamed as the Faculty of Science in 2004.

The Department of Biology offers a combination of modern and multi-disciplinary coverage of the vast area of Biology. The aim of the Department is to provide the essential requirements for a solid undergraduate education in various biological disciplines to produce knowledgeable and competitive graduates to advance to professional or graduate programmes, or enter employment in the public and private sectors. The Department offers undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programmes in the fields of aquatic and terrestrial biology, pollution, bio monitoring and microbial biology. The undergraduate and graduate programmes offer students numerous research opportunities in well-equipped laboratories with state-of-the-art facilities. These programmes emphasize practical experience in the laboratory section of the courses as well as during fieldwork. The students are also exposed to the necessary research experience, skills in scientific writing and seminar presentations. The courses offered in the Department are designed to provide a solid background in the biological sciences and to develop an integrated scientific perspective. The academic staffs of the Department are highly trained with professional experience gained through research activities and networking with Government agencies, the private sector and international bodies.

This course is focusing about biology.