General Microbiology 207

DATE	Subject	TEXT ASSIGNMENT
	Development of Microbiology	Chapter 1
	Principles of Chemistry	Chapter 2
	Major Organic Compounds	Chapter 2
	Basic Concepts of Microbiology	Chapter 3
	Viruses	Chapter 11
	Viruses (Continued)	Chapter 11
	EXAM I
	Selected Viral Diseases	Chapter 12
	Selected Viral Diseases(Continued)	Chapter 13
	Selected Viral Diseases(Continued)	Chapter 13
	Bacterial Genetic(Continued)	Chapter 6
	EXAM II
	Bacterial Metabolism	Chapter 5
	Bacterial Metabolism(Continued)	Chapter 5
	Airborne BacterialDiseases	Chapter 7
	Food borne and Waterborne Bacterial Disease	Chapter 8
	Selected Bacterial Disease	Chapter 9 & 10
	EXAM III
	The Fungi	Chapter 14
	The Protozoa	Chapter 15
	Infection and Disease	Chapter 17
	FINAL EXAM

Grading:  Your course grade will be based on four exam scores (400 possible points).  These scores will be summed to obtain the cumulative score and the cumulative score will be divided by the highest cumulative score earned this semester to obtain your percent score.  Letter grades will be assigned according to the following scale: 

Daily class participation and punctual attendance will be reflected in this grade.  Make-up examinations will require a doctor’s excuse.  June 13 is the last day to drop a course with a “W”.  The examination will consist mainly of a combination of acceptable or unacceptable, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and multiple choice.

Instructor: Dr. Larry P. Elliott

Office 205-E TCNW,
Office Hours posted. 
Phone #745-6002. 
Grades will not be given out over the phone. 

email Larry.Elliott@wku.edu

Prerequisites: None.

Special Assignments:  There will be no special presentations or term papers for this course.

Textbook:   Fundamentals of Microbiology by Edward Alcamo.  2001.
Jones and BartlettPublishing Co. Sundbury MA. 6^th Ed.

Course Objectives: An introduction to microbes and their importance to humans (for non-biology majors).  Approximately one-third of the course is devoted to each of the three major areas of microbiology:  organismal, environmental, and medical.  May be taken with or without the correlated laboratory course, Biology 208, dependent upon the student’s curriculum requirements.

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