The YUFE biology, bioscience, and life science faculties of many of our partner universities have begun cooperating as “BioYUFE”.
We have various plans for shared teaching, but the first of these, launched in Academic Year 2023/2024, are shared elective courses.
This is a new, bottom-up spin-off under the YUFE umbrella where, within a discipline, educational offers are being exchanged and timetables are being adjusted to allow students to benefit from elective courses elsewhere. The majority of the BioYUFE courses are held online and in English. In many cases, these have been coordinated, so that they run on Friday afternoons. We are also requesting our home faculties that no physical teaching be conducted on Friday afternoons in masters programmes, to help prevent timetable issues.
Most masters programmes (and some undergraduate programmes) in the faculties of BioYUFE allow students to take a certain number of elective (optional) courses per year. We would like to create a situation in which all BioYUFE students have the opportunity to take at least one of their elective courses per semester as an online/hybrid course from any BioYUFE faculty, have this course count towards their final degree programme, and do so without time tabling issues. This is intended to allow our students maximum choice, including into subjects not commonly available at their home faculty, while also gaining experience working with students and staff internationally.
Any masters student registered at a YUFE University in a biology or life science related programme is eligible to enrol for BioYUFE elective courses. The exact definitions of which programmes count will be made by each partner University. Some courses will also be open to undergraduate students (2nd year or higher).
