Course Description - Bachelor of Medical and Laboratory Sciences

  • 15200107: Islamic Studies [3 Credit Hours]


  • 13020001: Hebrew Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020004: Russian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020010: Islamic Econmic System [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020018: The Palestinian Captive Movement [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020019: Democracy and Elections [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020020: Anti-Corruption [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020024: Environmental Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020034: Introduction to Automotive Engineering [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010209: Molecular genetics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover the principle of genetics, way of inheritance, chromosome structure, gene structure. Mode of inheritance. Studying trait inheritance at molecular level


  • 21010311: Ethics in laboratory sciences [1 Credit Hours]

    This course provides an understanding of important communication skills for students' health professionals, as well as an awareness of common psychological conditions that can affect therapeutic engagement. This course aims to introduce students to a range of communication techniques necessary for health professionals including relationship making and interviewing skills, strategies for developing and maintaining a good therapeutic alliance with patients and other healthcare professionals and will also provide an introduction to the application of professional ethics, and the concept of professional identity. Emphasis will also be given to common psychological conditions that can affect therapeutic engagement, such as anxiety and depression. Students will also be introduced to strategies for adapting their communications to specific audiences, taking into account age, gender and culture.


  • 21010601: Immunology and serology lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Will cover studying the applied laboratory method in immunology and serology. Method for evaluation of body defense system


  • 21010409: Pharmacology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics in fundamental basis of drugs, their mode of actions and drug toxicity. Drug kinetic and decomposition will be cover also.


  • 13020003: German Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020005: Turkish Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020006: Italian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020027: Health Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020031: Contemporary Global Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020036: Software Applications [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010103: General Mathematics for Health Sciences Students [3 Credit Hours]

    This course offers a comprehensive overview of essential mathematical concepts tailored for health science disciplines. Starting with basic operations involving integers, fractions, percents, and decimals, it lays a strong foundation by emphasizing proficiency in these areas. The course progresses to include conversions, focusing on metric and non-metric systems, and temperature changes, to ensure accuracy in diverse measurement contexts. Dilution and concentration principles are explored, crucial for understanding solution preparation in medical settings. The course also delves into the accurate interpretation of drug orders and labels, essential for safe medication administration. Graphing techniques are introduced to visually represent relationships between variables, aiding in data analysis and interpretation. Advanced topics such as functions, inequalities, exponential functions, and logarithms are covered, highlighting their applications in modeling biological processes. Finally, the course addresses geometric principles relevant to the health sciences, such as calculating area and volume. Mastery of these topics will equip students with the mathematical skills necessary for success in their health science careers.


  • 15050252: Analytical Chemistry Lab. [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will learn the different methods of analysis of non- organic compound


  • 21010210: Human anatomy and physiology lab [1 Credit Hours]

    This lab part will cover the theory part and the students will learn structure of various systems and functions such as respiration and metabolisms


  • 13020012: Islamic Civilization [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce students to civilization, its’ characteristics, patterns, and its relationship to civics and culture. It focuses on the study of Islamic civilization, its’ genesis, components, characteristics, contemporary problems and issues, such as the civilizational interaction between Islamic civilization and the West, the contributions of Muslim scholars to human civilization, the impact of Islamic civilization on global human civilization, and ways of transmission to various countries of the world. It also deals with scientific development, Islamic systems and institutions, architecture and arts in Islamic civilization.


  • 13020015: International Relations [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020023: Astronomy [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020025: Agriculture in Palestine [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020032: Economy in the Third World [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020035: Professional Communication Skills [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010104: PHYSICS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES [3 Credit Hours]

    Units conversions ,vector and scalar quantities,static equilibrium/ equilibrium consideration for human body,elastic properties of materials, thermal properties of matter,fluid mechanics,electric current, resistance and Ohm's Law, the capacitor,the RC circuit, nerve conduction , applications ,waves, sound, and optics ,electromagnetic spectrum, geometrical optics, human Eye


  • 21010106: Organic Chemistry for non-chemistry students [3 Credit Hours]

    This course, included the study of non-aromatic cyclic compounds and aromatic compounds and their chemical reactions. Some chemical reaction dynamic. Method of detections as well as studying functional groups of acids and their derivatives. Amine and cyclic compounds will be covered. Students will be introduced to chemical reactions of some groups of compounds like aldehyde, ketones, phenols


  • 21010310: Diagnostic bacteriology.lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will study practice physical and chemical and serological methods of isolation, detection and diagnosis for human and animal pathogenic bacteria


  • 21010302: Body fluid and homeostasis [2 Credit Hours]

    Students will study body fluid in both healthy and diseased peoplewith focus onchanges at clinical levels.


  • 21010320: Body fluid and homeostasis lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will study how body fluid are formed and applied tests for specimens collected from spinal cord, semen and other body fluids. Will learn accurately calculate the results for the benefit of patients


  • 21010303: Med. Lab. Instrumentation and Techniques [2 Credit Hours]

    At this lab , student will be introduced to different instrumentation, devices being routinely used in medical lab sciences, their mode of action and components.


  • 21010305: Lab administration and quality control [1 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover the topics related to how to establish labs, lab administration and lab equipments and infrastructure that meet with international standards. Students will have learn the necessary documents and methods for Lab assurance quality control


  • 21010410: Histotechnology lab [1 Credit Hours]

    This lab will cover all techniques used in preparing permanent and temporary slides for different animal and plant tissues. Will also focus on preparing permanent slides of bacteria and parasites.


  • 21010408: Toxicology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics on toxic compound, their effects on human body and food we consume. The effect of toxic compounds used in agriculture and accompanied health problems in human. Focus will be on toxic compounds that causes cancers


  • 15200099: Pre-English [3 Credit Hours]

    Remedial English: The course is a compulsory service course offered for first year students. It is a prerequisite for E1 and it focuses mainly on the language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is intended to equip the students with basic skills necessary for successful communication in both oral and written forms of the language. In addition to grammar and how to use vocabulary in a meaningful context.


  • 15200102: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 15200104: Social Services [1 Credit Hours]

    Students perform voluntary work such as donating blood, repairing homes, tourist trails, or holding educational workshops at the university, and the student is committed to training or working for 40 hours.


  • 13020008: Physical Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020016: Law in Our Lives [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020028: My Career I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020029: My Career II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010102: General Chemistry fo Health Sciences [3 Credit Hours]

    Provides a one-semester introduction to general chemistry for the health sciences. Covers the fundamentals of elements and atoms; ionic and molecular structure; chemical reactions and their stoichiometry, energetics, rates, and equilibriums; and the properties of matter as gases, liquids, solids, and solutions. Other topics include acids and bases


  • 21010110: General chemistry laboratory for health sciences [1 Credit Hours]

    This course presents basic ideas for the practical application of general chemistry, such as: familiarization with laboratory safety instructions, laboratory tools, experiments in qualitative analysis


  • 21010108: Medical terminology [1 Credit Hours]

    This course clarifies the difference between general English terms and medical terminology. Hence, this course is concerned with giving parts of medical terms and their related meanings and how they are formed and used. Where students are trained to use these terms and pronounce them in the right manner.


  • 21010250: Clinical hematology lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Will focus on method of detection of blood diseases. Including test for red blood and while blood cells, platelets in addition to studying blood coagulations


  • 21010304: Diagnostic Parasitology [2 Credit Hours]

    Students will study parasites that cause diseases to human, their structure, lifer cycle, methods of infections and methods of prevention and control. .


  • 21010309: Blood bank [2 Credit Hours]

    The students will study the blood grouping and blood components in general. Separation of blood components.Rhesus factors. Blood collection from the body and precautions of blood transfusion before and after transfusionsBlood diseases including anemia, leukemia and their underlying causes.


  • 21010308: Pathology [3 Credit Hours]

    The course focuses on basic reactions of cells and tissues to injury that underlie all disease processes and include cell injury and death, circulatory disturbances, inflammation and repair and disturbances of growth and neoplasia. General topics covered include the nature and causes of cell injury and death; adaptive cellular changes; inflammation, healing and repair, thrombosis, embolism and infarction and neoplasia. More detailed attention is given to cardiovascular, pulmonary and gastrointestinal diseases and common cancers and the pathology is correlated with major clinical symptoms and signs.


  • 21010307: Molecular techniques [2 Credit Hours]

    Introduction to some very important molecular techniques such as : PCR , southern blot, northern blot, real time PCR , microarray, sequencing etc..


  • 21010403: Histotechnology [2 Credit Hours]

    Students will study theprinciple techniques in preparation of animal, plant and bacterial slidesusing microtome.Tissue staining and taking microscopic images


  • 21010401: Virology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover viruses structure, classification, symptoms anddiagnosis that causes human diseases Will also cover topics including prevention and treatments.


  • 13010007: Communication Skills [1 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the student to concepts, theories and skills in the field of human communication in Arabic and English, and provides him with basic skills in the field of communication with himself and with others through the art of recitation, dialogue, persuasion, negotiation and leadership, to enhance his practice in his daily and practical life using new methods based on diverse and effective training and evaluation. In addition to the knowledge of electronic communication and social intelligence, as well as enabling the student to write his CV and conduct a personal interview in Arabic and English. The course aims to develop the student's skills on written, oral and electronic communication and the use of body language in order to improve the abilities to communicate with others in general, in addition to the students' abilities to send and receive in the study and work environment in particular.


  • 13020007: English language III [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020011: Contemporary Problems [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020014: Political Science [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020022: Library and Research Methods [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010101: Biology for health science [3 Credit Hours]

    Medical Biology course is designed specifically for students of health sciences . The course covers the basic principles and facts in biology like chemical concepts that needed to understand the biological process occurring in the human body ., ultra-structure of the cell and cell organelles, the cell cycle and division, membranes transport, and basic cell metabolism . The course also introduces basic principles of Mendelian inheritance, modern genetics, human chromosomes, inheritable diseases and gene expression and human evolution . In addition, the course also focuses on organization and systems of the human body, protective covering of the body, support and movement, food processing and nutrition, transport within the body, gas exchange, endocrine systems, regulation of body activities, homeostasis, reproduction and biology of infectious diseases and human body defense against pathogens, specific and non specific mechanisms.


  • 21010120: Physics lab for health science students [1 Credit Hours]

    The performance of experiments related to measurements and data analysis, Force table (vector addition), Friction forces (static and kinetic), Gravity acceleration, Density of solids and liquid materials, viscosity, Young modulus , Boyles and Charles laws (for ideal gas), Specific heat capacity(of solids), Ohms law


  • 21010404: Practical training [6 Credit Hours]

    Student in this course will be do practical training in hospital, private and public labs in all sections ( haematology, biochemistry, blood etc..) for about 60 contact hours..


  • 21010318: Medical Mycology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topic on studying fungi including their growth pattern, classifications, identification and disease that causes to human. Mode of infection and prevention will be covered


  • 21010321: Science of infection control [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics about diseases epidemiology, prevention , control and legislation


  • 13010006: Computer Skills and Applications [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020017: E-government Legal Framework [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020021: History of Science Among the Arabs [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020026: Leadership and Creativity [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020030: Individual and Society [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010105: ُExperimental Biostatistics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course, cover several biostatistics subjects as analysis and interpret data, apply various statistical concepts including descriptive statistics and probability distributions, find relationships between variables, fit regression models, make statistical inferences; parameter estimation / confidence intervals and make tests for one or multiple groups such as z and t-tests, chi-square tests, and ANOVA with applications in the biomedical and clinical laboratory data


  • 15030239: Biochemistry Lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will study the method of detection of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. Enzymes and their kinetics.


  • 21010130: Organic chemistry lab for non-chemistry student [1 Credit Hours]

    This lab will cover the practical methods for : detection , spectrophotometric analysis of organic compounds and different reactions between organic compounds


  • 21010270: Molecular genetics lab [1 Credit Hours]

    This lab will cover Mendel way of inheritance, DNA isolation and diagnosis of some genetic disease present in community. PCR and other molecular techniques


  • 21010306: Immunology and serology [2 Credit Hours]

    Students will discuss the basic principles of immunology which include the immune system, its organs, cells, natural functions in protecting the body from foreign bodies such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and their secretions. The up to date methods for antibody separation in Human


  • 21010340: Molecular techniques lab [1 Credit Hours]

    This lab will cover most of molecular techniques used for DNA isolation and identification. Gel electrophoresis. Will cover also techniques used for molecular identification like PCR, RAPD and etc


  • 21010240: Histology Lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Will cover the studying the normal structure and composition of different tissue under microscope


  • 21010434: Forensic science lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will learnhow to collect data from crime scene, handling and processing inside the lab. Type of tests for the samples.


  • 21010319: Food Microbiology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics related to microorganisms that normally present in food. Will also cover microorganisms that cause food spoilage and disease to human by releasing toxic compounds. Mode of infection and prevention


  • 15200106: ُEnglish (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    English 1 is a theoretical, 3-credit hour university requisite, and a general English Course which is designed to serve all BA and BSc Students of (PTUK) in all faculties. This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 13020002: French Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020013: History of Jerusalem [2 Credit Hours]


  • 21010100: Biology lab for health science [1 Credit Hours]

    This lab course is intended to provide students with basic skills necessary to utilize a light microscopes of both types dissecting and compound microscope and to be be familiar with all the parts of the light microscope. Studying different type of cells (prokaryote and eukaryote) structure and revealing the presence of functional molecules unique to living organisms and activity of enzymes in cells under certain conditions. The students will also conduct experiments to study the physical properties of plasma membrane (diffusion ,osmosis) and be able to identify cell division phases (mitosis and meiosis ) in animal eukaryotic cells . In addition students will perform DNA isolation, and run Gel electrophoresis


  • 15030247: General microbiology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover introduction to microbiology. Studying cell structure, growth requirement of different microorganisms. Study classifications of differentmicroorganisms including, algae, bacteria, protozoa, actinomycets, fungi and viruses and their role in biotechnology and cycle of elements Students will learn about different types of microorganism in general, life cycle and their role in environment. Emphasis will be on certain types of microorganisms with their importance in medicine, industry and environment


  • 15030238: Biochemistry [3 Credit Hours]

    Students will study the main concepts of biochemistry. Themes that will be covered in this course include: The study of biochemical compounds(proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids) andtheir metabolism inside animal cell. How do human body get the energy? Enzymes, enzyme reaction and co enzymes


  • 21010206: Clinical hematology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will introduce students to study blood components in both in normal and disease stateswith emphasis on lab diagnosis. Studying anemia and leukemia, blood coagulation factors and its related dieses


  • 21010301: Diagnostic bacteriology [3 Credit Hours]

    Students in this course will study methods of collecting samples outside the lab. Isolation, and diagnosis inside the lab with emphasis on molecular diagnosis.


  • 21010411: Fundamental of Scientific research [3 Credit Hours]

    Through the study of this course, students will learn statistical techniques applicable to Medical Laboratory Sciences. Themes covered in this course include: descriptive statistics measures and their calculations: data representation through Tables and Graphs; descriptive statistics and Tables using SPSS; hypothesis testing and inferential statistics using SPSS.Practical application by gathering data from the field and do statistical methods


  • 21010602: Blood bank lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will acquire the method of blood sample collection, blood sample analysis. Ability to differentiate between anaemia, leukaemia and other blood diseases


  • 21010317: Coagulation and blood homeostasis [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics related to blood coagulation factors, components and function. Will also cover topic related to disease accompanied with malfunction of some coagulation factors. Will cover also fluid homeostasis in the body. Laboratory techniques related to blood coagulation


  • 21010261: Community health [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics related to relation between human and surrounding environments. How this interaction will affect human health and spread of disease.


  • 15200101: Palestinian Issue [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15200112: English 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is designed to serve PTUK students in the faculties of Science and Engineering as well as the students of Educational Technology (ET); it offers a broad overview of the English language learning skills in reading, writing, speaking that will enable them to communicate meaningfully in scientific contexts and situations. It also offers a broad variety of scientific language grammatical patterns and vocabulary items that are needed to comprehend scientific contexts and trends. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a variety of scientific topics, aural input in order to broaden and deepen their critical thinking skills and to help them express opinions about modern scientific topics and problems.


  • 13020009: Islam and Contemporary Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020033: Child Rearing and Family Upbringing [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15050251: Analytical Chemistry [3 Credit Hours]

    Through the study of this introductory course, the students will be introduced to determine the concentration of non-organic compounds in biological, environmental and food samples. Sampling, error and statistical analysis as applied to analytical chemistry. Specific analytical techniques or concepts covered are gravimetric, complex metric, volumetric, analysis such as acid-base titration and standardization, oxidation-reduction, and precipitation titration.


  • 15030244: Cell Biology [3 Credit Hours]

    Students will describe comparison between prokaryote and eukaryote. Themes that will be covered in this course include the cell structure, cell membrane and macromolecules; cytoskeleton, cell cycle, and mitosis; signal transduction and protein synthesis, folding, modification, trafficking transport, and secretion


  • 15030248: General microbiology.lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will have a practice and experiment how to identify microorganism like fungi,bacteria, will learn how culture these microorganism, isolation and identification using biochemical and cultural methods


  • 21010201: Human anatomy and physiology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an introductory to human structure and function at physiological and tissue levels. Studying different human systems as well as general anatomy of human body including: Heart and blood vessels. integumentary system, skeleton, muscles, the nervous system, urinary system, digestive system and reproductive system


  • 21010208: Clinical chemistry [3 Credit Hours]

    Students will study the body fluid in normal and pathogenic state. Method ofassessment using modernequipments. Study specimens that are used in the clinical chemistry laboratory, and the variables that affect the level of various analytes in the blood. As well as QA.


  • 21010207: Histology [2 Credit Hours]

    Students will study detailed structure of normal cells and normal tissue including muscle, blood , adipose and others and correlated structure with function


  • 21010205: Endocrinology [2 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover endocrine system in general, component and functions including hormones released by thyroid, parathyroid, pineal pituitary glands and others.


  • 21010330: Diagnostic Parasitology lab [1 Credit Hours]

    Students will acquire the proper techniques to identify the specific parasites that causes human disease in the lab by using microscope or using molecular identification


  • 21010433: Forensic science [2 Credit Hours]

    Students will be introduced to forensic sciences, principles and applications. Will learn how to interpret data, application. Criminal record perpetrations. Molecular techniques used in forensic sciences. Using information technology and data files to track criminals.


  • 21010412: Embryology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course will cover topics in understanding and guiding the development of embryos till birth.