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Oct 14, 2024
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BIOL 232 - Environmental Health Microbiology Units: 4 Examines the roles and interactions of microorganisms in natural and artificial environments in relation to planetary homeostasis and organismal health. Includes the role of microorganisms in modern-day health and safety.
Credit Restrictions: Not open for Biological Science majors. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground. Grading: A-F grading only. Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Understand how microorganisms facilitate the stability, habitability, and persistence of life on Earth.
- Articulate microbial strategies for coping and survival under environmental stresses such as nutrient fluctuation, prolonged starvation, competition, predation, and extreme environments and how these strategies relate to planetary homeostasis and/or dysbiosis.
- Describe the mediation of major biogeochemical cycles by microorganisms, including the role microbes play in remediating pollutants using metabolic and cometabolic processes.
- Verbalize diverse insect-microbe, plant-microbe, and animal-microbe interactions, including interactions that impact human systems (e.g., crop diseases, bioterrorism).
- Assess standard procedures regarding the release of genetically-modified organisms in a variety of environments.
- Explain the transmission of foodborne pathogens.
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