Educational and methodical work of the Department of Biotechnology and Phytopharmacology aims to:
- development and implementation of measures to improve educational activities, improve pedagogical skills, scientific and practical skills of research and teaching staff;
- preparation and discussion of thematic and curricula, programs of disciplines and other documents, planning of educational activity;
- consideration and discussion of methods of teaching disciplines, lecture texts, different methods of organizing different types of classes; group exercises, comprehensive training, etc .;
- discussion of problems of intensification of educational process, methods of using modern technologies in the program Moodle, Kachhot, Zoom and others;
- preparation and discussion of methods of conducting individual work of students, generalization of work experience and preparation of a proposal for its improvement;
- exchange, generalization and dissemination of positive experience of methodical work.
Scientific and methodological support of the educational process provides for the presence at the department:
- state standards of education;
- curriculum;
- curricula in all normative and elective disciplines;
- programs of educational, industrial and other types of practices;
- textbooks, manuals,
- individual, control, seminar, laboratory, practical tasks;
- criteria for assessing the level of students’ knowledge in a particular discipline.
Methodical work combines the following disciplines, which are taught in the specialties of the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Environmental Use (“Agronomy”, “Plant Protection”, “Biotechnology and Bioengineering”, “Ecology”, “Tourism”, “Garden Design”, “Forestry”) , as well as at the faculty of Law and Economics. First of all, these are such disciplines as “Fundamentals of Biotechnology”, “Biotechnology in Plant Breeding”, “Meteorology”, “Meteorology and Climatology”, “Agropharmacology”, “Fundamentals of Agriculture”, “Environmental Law”, “Diagnosis and Identification of GMOs, DNA – certification “,”Methodology and organization of scientific research “,”Methods and organization of research in agronomy “, etc.
Teachers of the department are the authors of 5 textbooks, 7 textbooks and more than 100 methodological works. Widely recognized and popular among students and colleagues are the manuals of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor A.A. Podgaetsky, V.V. Matskevich “Microclonal propagation of individual plant species (technology protocols) scientific and practical guide,” Features of microclonal propagation of plant species.
