MICR2205 General and Applied Microbiology [UG]

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Credit: 6 points Availability: Semester 2 (See Timetable) Old unit code: 950.205

Outcomes: Students gain an understanding of how micro-organisms (especially bacteria and viruses) cause disease. In the laboratory sessions students gain a deeper understanding of the activities of bacteria and viruses, and master laboratory skills for work in a professional microbiology laboratory.

Content: This unit assumes completion of MICR2204 Introductory Microbiology. The unit introduces the immune response, and the nature of viral and bacterial infections, and microbial genetics. Disorders of the immune system, laboratory tests for infection and vaccines in current use are discussed. In the laboratory sessions students gain a deeper understanding of the activities of bacteria, viruses and fungi, and master laboratory skills for work in a professional microbiology laboratory. The unit is one of the prerequisites for a major in Microbiology.

Assessment: This comprises a final theory examination (50 per cent), continuous assessment on the lecture component of the unit (15 per cent) and continuous assessment of the practical component (35 per cent).

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course.

Unit Co-ordinator(s): Dr David Sutton

Location: UWA (Crawley, QEII Medical Centre)

Mode: on-campus

Unit Rules:

Prerequisites: at least 45 per cent in MICR2204 Introductory Microbiology

Incompatibility: 950.200 Introductory Microbiology 200 (taken before 2003)

Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week; tutorials/labs: 2 hrs per week (for 13 weeks)

Unit Web Page: http://webct.uwa.edu.au/ (only for enrolled students)

Note: Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2008.

Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au/). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.

Texts

Prescott, L. M. et al. Microbiology, 6th ed.: McGraw-Hill 2005

Tortora, G. J. et al. Microbiology: An Introduction, 8th ed.: Addison Wesley Longman 2004

Books and other material wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.