BIOL-2420 Microbiology for the Health Sciences
Lakisha Barrett
Credit Fall 2024
Section(s)
BIOL-2420-002 (89294)
LEC MW 9:00am - 10:20am HLC HLC1 2403
LAB MW 10:30am - 11:50am HLC HLC1 2112.00
Course Requirements
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COURSE ASSESSMENTS |
POINTS |
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Lecture (60%) Lecture Exams (4 x 100pts) |
300 |
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Comprehensive Final (100pts) |
100 |
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Quiz (4 x 18.75pts) |
75 |
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Activities (6 x 12.5pts) Homework Lecture Point Total |
75 50 600 |
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Laboratory (40%) |
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Morphological Unknown #1 Microbial Unknown #2 Bacteria Research Portfolio Virtual Labs (34 x 0.88 pts) Lab Practical Exams (4 x 70pts) Laboratory Point Total
Total Possible Course Points Course Grade = 600 (lecture) + 400 (lab)= 1000 points 60% + 40% |
30 30 30 30 280 400 |
Exam: Lecture exams may include multiple-choice, matching, true/false, fill in the blank, and short answer questions. Lecture exams will be taken online ONLY. No exam retakes are given under any circumstances. Please plan ahead and accordingly to provide yourself with ample time to log in and take each lecture exam. The exams will be administered via Respondus Monitor. It is the student’s responsibility to have the appropriate browser and required hardware specifications.
Lecture Quiz: (in BB show up as ‘tests’ but will have ‘Quiz’ in their title) are designed to assess knowledge gained from the assigned reading. All lecture quizzes will be posted in BB and may include multiple-choice, true/false, fill in the blank, short problems, and short answer questions. The quizzes must be completed by the posted due dates. These due dates will not be extended.
Activity: May include short answer questions, reflections, videos, resource creation, and skills practice. All activities will be posted in BB, you will upload answers into BB and will be graded in BB. Wikis, found in BB Tools, may also be used for activities.
Homework: Completed in Connect and intended to practice application of knowledge and gain experience with NCLEX questions.
Lab: Laboratory experiments, Weekly summations, virtual pre-labs, unknowns, and practicals.
Readings
Required
First-Day Access: E-Book and Connect Access
Lecture: Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach (Looseleaf) - With Access 4th Edition
Author: Cowan, Marjorie Kelly
ISBN: 9781266361067
Please ensure that you have the Connect Access code. We will be using this for some assignments. With the First Day option, you will have access to the e-book for 5 years and Connect for one year. You do have the option to opt-out of First Day and buy directly from the ACC bookstore or Cowan_McGraw Hill. You do save money with the First Day Access Options and Bundles From ACC. Must opt out before 9/02/24 (See blackboard or contact the ACC Bookstore).
Lab: Benson's Microbiological Applications Laboratory Manual
Authors: Heidi Smith and Alfred Brown
ISBN10: 126025898X | ISBN13: 9781260258981
Course Subjects
Biology 2420, Microbiology for the Health Sciences, provides a survey of the microorganisms, their environments, and their interactions with multicellular organisms, particularly man. The course concentrates on the microorganisms which are pathogenic to man, the diseases they cause, treatments for the diseases, and the prevention of those diseases. This course is designed for nursing students but is applicable for all allied health students and anyone needing science credit.
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
Lecture Course Objectives
1. Discuss the germ theory of disease and its development.
2. Discuss aseptic procedures for the preparation of media and materials for the culturing and growth of microbes.
3. Enumerate and differentiate among the different groups of organisms included for study in microbiology.
4. Discuss and distinguish between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell types.
5. Discuss energy acquisition and utilization by microbes and the function of enzymes in cellular activities.
6. Discuss microbial metabolism, including anabolic pathways and glycolytic, fermentative, and respiratory catabolic pathways.
7. Discuss fundamental nucleic acid chemistry regarding the principle of complementarity, DNA replication, the genetic code, protein synthesis, metabolic regulation, and cellular reproduction.
8. Discuss microbial genetics including, but not restricted to sexual versus asexual means of reproduction, and transformation, transduction, and conjugation in bacteria.
9. Discuss methods utilized in biotechnology as applied to microbes, including the role of microbes and biotechnology in industrial microbiology, the pharmaceutical and food industries, and systematic and diagnostic microbiology.
10. Discuss symbiotic relationships, including commensal, mutualistic, and parasitic relationships among hosts and microbes.
11. Discuss disease processes, cellular structures, metabolic and genetic activities, and biological and chemical agents employed by microbes in colonizing, infecting, invading, and causing disease in hosts.
12. Discuss the processes, both nonspecific and specific, employed by hosts in resisting the onslaught of infectious diseases.
13. Discuss the principles and methods of diagnosing diseases, identifying disease-causing agents, and tracking and enumerating diseases around the world.
14 Discuss the signs, symptoms, etiology, course, prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment for the most common infectious diseases of all organ systems of the human.
Lab Course Objectives
1. Recognize and comply with the “Biology Laboratory Safety Policies for Students, Staff, and Faculty.”
2. Recognize and comply with generally accepted rules for microbiology laboratory health and safety, clean-up, decontamination, disinfection, and disposal of hazardous materials. Rules that are to be followed will be covered.
3. Utilize aseptic technique for all laboratory work.
4. Satisfactorily perform (virtual simulation and know theory and practical application of aseptic transfers; streaking for isolated colonies; growth of pure cultures; identification of colony characteristics; simple and differential staining; serologic, metabolic, and chemical tests for bacteria and other appropriate microorganisms.
5. Observe growth characteristics and environmental factors affecting the growth of microbes.
6. Observe and differentiate among eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms using both wet mounts of living organisms and stained smears of organisms of both cell types with light microscopy.
7. Observe and differentiate among bacterial cell types and arrangements using simple and differentially stained smears.
8. Satisfactorily identify unknown microorganisms, using procedures learned in the course.
9. Discuss the cell theory and its development
Office Hours
M W 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM HLC 1000, 1424.05
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