BIO 332 Microbiology With Lab
This course emphasizes fundamentals of microbiology, through lecture and laboratory skills. Topics include: history, morphology, and physiology, nutritional growth and metabolism, immunology, the techniques used in the identification of microorganisms, and the microbial diseases of body systems. The impact on the spread of diseases and type of control are demonstrated. Common causes and sources of infection are demonstrated, along with analysis of clinical applications and recent chemotherapy-antibiotics and immunology discoveries known to combat the powerful microbes. The students are exposed to a diversity component which focuses on healthcare disparities across different cultural, socio-economic, gender, age, and disability backgrounds that apply to infectious disease. Includes a 1 credit lab which meets 2 hours weekly.