NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 諾貝爾獎得主的人生故事與科學(2091)
(Eng.) Nobel Laureates: Life Stories and the Science Behind Their Discoveries
Offering Dept Department of Life Sciences
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher Chih-Yi Gabriela Lin ect.
Department Department of Life Sciences/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2026-FALL
Course Description 這門課透過諾貝爾獎得主的人生故事,帶領學生認識這些科學家如何面對挑戰、做出突破性的研究,並將其背後的科學原理以清楚易懂的方式呈現。課程同時結合英文閱讀與科學素養,幫助大學生在提升語言能力的同時,也能更深入理解科學思維與研究精神。
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
A認識全方位的生命科學知識
B培養專業實驗技能及客觀邏輯思考能力
1.The knowledge of basic science and basic life science
3.The training of the ability of expression and the logics of thinking.
50
50
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Other
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Course Introduction: Alfred Nobel
Week 2 Novel therapy against parasites: William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, and Tu Youyou
Hacking the viruses: Hausen, Barré-Sinoussi, and Montagnier
Week 3 Pioneers of modern genetics: Barbara McClintock and Joshua Lederberg
Week 4
9/28 Teachers Day (holiday)
Week 5 RNA interference: Fire and Mello
MicroRNA: Ambros and Ruvkun
Week 6 From mRNA biology to vaccines: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman
Week 7 DNA Structure: Watson, Crick, and Rosalind Franklin
Week 8 10/26 Adjusted holiday
Week 9 Learning and Memory: Eric Kandell
Week 10 Telomere and telomerase: Blackburn, Greider, Szostak
Week 11 Twice honored in Chemistry: Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless
Week 12 Spatial Navigation: John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser
Week 13 Innate immunity and the role of dendritic cells in adaptive immunity: Beutler, Hoffmann, and Steinman
Treg: Brunkow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi
Week 14 Visual Processing: David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Week 15 Decoding the biological clock: Jeffrey Cornnor Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Warren Young
Week 16 Hemispheric Specialization: Roger Sperry
self-directed
learning
   01.Participation in professional forums, lectures, and corporate sharing sessions related to industry-government-academia-research exchange activities.
   02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.

Evaluation
Assignment 50%; Class engagement: 50%
Textbook & other References

Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Official Nobel Prize website — biographies, interviews, lectures
• https://www.nobelprize.org
Office Hours
請與老師約時間
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)
include experience courses:N
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