The Department of Genetics and Microbiology offers and provides approximately 100 basic and specialized lectures, practical courses, and seminars. A complete list is available here. The subjects taught by the Department always begin with the code MB140XY (where X is P for a lecture, C for a practical course, S for a seminar, followed by the numeric code Y of the specific subject; if the code ends with E, the course is taught in English; however, some additional lectures/courses without this suffix are also given in English). Although most lectures and practicals are conducted in Czech, a significant number are also offered in English. However, not all courses are taught every year - some specialized lectures or practical courses are repeated only every two years (if you are considering enrolling, please check in SIS to see if they are being offered in the current academic year). The current teaching schedule for the Department of Genetics and Microbiology can be found here.
Some of the courses offered by the Department are intended primarily for Bachelor´s students and aim to provide them with a solid theoretical or practical foundation in genetics, molecular biology, microbiology or virology. Other, more specialized courses then allow students in the Follow-up Master's or Ph.D. programmes to develop these skills in greater detail, focusing on specific areas of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology or virology and concentrating on topics that will be useful for the professional specialization they have chosen.
Students in both of the Follow-up Master's programmes offered by the Department are also required to attend the Seminar of the Department of Genetics and Microbiology (MB140S48, MB140S48L, MB140S49, MB140S49L) in each of the four semesters of their master's studies. The current schedule for these seminars is available here. Other students or the general public are, of course, also welcome to attend these seminars!
Both the Department's lectures and practical courses are usually well attended by students and are often highly rated in the annual student surveys. Some of the Department's teachers have also received the "Students´s Velemlok" Award, which is given annually by the Student Chamber of the Academic Senate based on student voting for the best faculty teachers (2015/2016 Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Ivo Konopásek, CSc., 2009/2010 RNDr. Alena Drda Morávková, Ph.D.).
You can view summaries of the annual study evaluation surveys (in Czech only) here (if you are a student or employee of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, and have your CAS login name and password, you can also view specific scores and written evaluations for individual courses in the "Application for Evaluation and Viewing of Results"). The average number of students attending basic lectures primarily intended for bachelor's students is shown in the graph below (in the case of practical courses, their capacity is usually numerically limited, so similar numbers would not be very indicative in this context and thus are not shown).
