本课程是面向非生物学专业学生开设的课程。从普及生物学知识的角度，介绍细胞是如何工作的。 “一切生命的关键问题都要到细胞中去寻找”。细胞的生命活动与人一样，有“生、老、病、死”，要了解生命，首先要了解细胞。高等生物的细胞也是高度“社会化”的。了解一个活细胞是如何工作的，即细胞是如何生存繁殖和衰老的，才能理解多细胞个体是如何发育的、癌变又是如何发生的，这也是认识各种生命现象和解决各种疑难问题的基础。 本课程将从细胞形态的维持、细胞的运动、细胞内物质的运输，细胞的增殖衰老等方面进行讲解，了解它们在生命活动中发挥什么样的作用，以及哪些步骤发生变异或损伤会导致人类的疾病等问题。 本课程用丰富的图片和动画演示等来解释细胞的结构和功能。课堂上鼓励同学积极参与讨论。通过该门课程的学习，期望学生能掌握细胞的基本知识、了解我们生活中与细胞有关的问题以及细胞研究的最新进展。这就是我们开设本课程的宗旨。 This course is for students of non-biological majors. To introduce how cells work from the perspective of popularizing biological knowledge. “The key problem of every living organism must finally be sought in the cell” The life of a cell is the same as that of human beings: “Birth, aging, disease and death”. In order to understand life, we must first understand the cell. Cells of the higher organism are high "socialization”. Knowing of how living cells work, or how a cell survival and reproduction as well as aging, we can understand how the individual cells are developed and how cancer occurs. This is the basis of understanding the various phenomena of life and solving various problems. This course covers the maintenance of cell shape, cell movement, transport, proliferation, aging etc. Students can radically be aware of how cells play a role in life. Rich pictures and animations used in this course, to explain the functions and structures of cell. We encourage students to participate actively in the discussion in class. By the course of learning, we hope that students could grasp the basic knowledge of the cell, and understanding the problems related to the cell in our life, as well as the latest progress in cell research. This is the aim of the course.