Biol 2420
Microbiology
Spring 2007

INSTRUCTOR:        Rebecca Hand 
OFFICE:                    WH 102C         
Phone/email:    (432) 335-6560         rhennig@odessa.edu

Course Description:  Students learn specific information and concepts in the classification, structure, cultivation and ecology of microorganisms.  Students learn mathematical calculation of growth parameters and the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic agents.  Students learn terminology, specific information and concepts of the relationships between microorganisms and human life.  Cause and effect relationships between microbial growth and human disease, interpretation of symptomatic and laboratory information in diagnosis of disease, prevention of disease and treatment of disease are stressed.