Abstract—The development of biodiversity has great impact on human society and economical lives recently. It has become an important issue in the 21st century. Cooperating with biotechnology, they have become the strategy of national long term development. However, in Taiwan there are not many studies concerning the biodiversity curriculum, and most of the recent studies involved are of teachers of primary and secondary students for subject evaluation. It is important to promote the concept of biodiversity among the non-biological undergraduate students and provide enough information for them to understand the basic principle of biodiversity. It is also a challenge to develop the program for biodiversity course in university, and necessary to study the conceptual analysis and curriculum development in biodiversity course for the undergraduate students. In this study, biodiversity conceptual analysis for the reference of curriculum development and the tool of course evaluation in National Cheng Kung University were carried out in order to put the course into practice, design the teaching course and prepare the teaching strategy.

Index Terms—Biodiversity, conservation biology, general course, curriculum development.

O. T. Mak was with the Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan, ROC. He is now with the Department of Healthcare Management, University of Kang Ning, Tainan, 70970, Taiwan, ROC (e-mail: paul@mail.ncku.edu.tw).

 

Cite: Oi T. Mak, "Study of the Teaching of Biodiversity as a General Undergraduate Course in a University of Taiwan," International Journal of Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 146-149, 2014.