The Biotechnology Certificate of Achievement provides the student with skills and job training essential for the field of biotechnology. Jobs include technical positions in genetic engineering, forensics, bioinformatics, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and medicine. This certificate program allows students to attain essential skills in biotechnology and provides opportunities to learn laboratory procedures and safety, how to record and analyze data, perform basic calculations and write laboratory documents. Students also learn about careers and ethical issues in biotechnology. Career options: careers for those with a Biotechnology Certificate of Achievement would be assay analyst, laboratory assistant or technician, manufacturing technician, QA/QC technician. Jobs for technicians may be found in environmental testing labs, forensic labs, hospitals, plant culturing labs, research labs and wineries.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Describe careers in biotechnology and the process of obtaining employment in biotechnology.
🗸 Compare and contrast the procedures and skills used in a Biotechnology laboratory and critically analyze scientific and technical literature.