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An introduction to the general principles and methods to control the growth and transmission of pathogenic microbes and the development of antibiotic resistance in healthcare, food preparation/service, and industrial settings. Lab included.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Nursing (BS) | Nutrition and Dietetics (BS)

Provides experience with a wide variety of biological laboratory exercises to prepare prospective elementary teachers. Emphasis is on building knowledge, skills, and confidence. The course will cover major biological concepts and environmental education through classroom-ready examples selected to illustrate each concept.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

This course will provide students a comprehensive approach to understanding the unifying theory that all biological systems must operate. Student will apply evolutionary theory to ecosystem, population, individual and gene levels of organization in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic groups.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 211

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

This course will introduce students to the wide diversity of invertebrate animals. Students will understand the major similarities and differences of the invertebrate taxa (protostomes and deuterostomes) through a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of their morphological and functional features. Emphasis will focus on evolutionary relationships among taxa including ecology, development, life cycles, anatomy, and physiology. Lab will focus on skills related to invertebrate identification, manipulation, and field collection.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

This course will explore the diversity of vertebrate animals from chordates ancestors, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Discussion of major taxa will focus on evolutionary relationships, ecology, and biology. Lab will focus on identification from both museum and field specimens.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Principles of functions of human cells, organs, and systems with an emphasis on organ/system interactions. Designed for majors that do not require a strong medical and research emphasis. Includes an active learning laboratory to facilitate learning the complex lecture material.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 220, CHEM 104 or CHEM 106 or CHEM 111 or CHEM 201

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

An examination of eukaryotic cellular structure, organization and physiology. Lab included.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105 and BIOL 106, BIOL 211

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Biochemistry (BA) | Biochemistry (BS) | Biotechnology (BS) | Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Cytotechnology | Cognitive Science (BS) Biology | Exercise Science (BS) General Exercise Science | Exercise Science (BS) Practitioner

Basic anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. The course is designed for students majoring in biology, psychology or health related programs.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 220

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Exercise Science (BS) General Exercise Science | Exercise Science (BS) Practitioner

Systems and regional approach to the structure of the human body. Primary emphasis on gross anatomy supported by 3-dimensional models and animal dissections, with additional emphasis on cell and tissue-level anatomy supported by histological examination. The course is designed for students majoring in biology programs. Lab included.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Medical Laboratory Science | Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Nuclear Medicine Technology

Principles of functions of human cells, organs, and systems with an emphasis on organ/system interactions. This course is designed for students majoring in biology, chemistry, or related sciences, and medically-related areas. Includes a laboratory with a research and medical emphasis.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 220, CHEM 104 or CHEM 106 or CHEM 111 or CHEM 201

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Medical Laboratory Science | Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Nuclear Medicine Technology | Exercise Science (BS) General Exercise Science | Exercise Science (BS) Practitioner | Food Science Technology (BS) | Health Informatics (BS)

Students will study management practices in the production of corn and soybeans, the economic and environmental aspects of soil damage systems, nutrient management recommendations for nitrogen and phosphorus, and current topics in the agronomy field. In the lab portion of the course, students will learn about grading crop samples and plant genetics.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 146, BIOL 246

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the structure, biochemistry, phylogeny, molecular biology, pathobiology, immunology, and ecology of microbes, with an emphasis on bacteria. Lab will include classical and contemporary techniques for the identification and characterization of bacteria.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, CHEM 201

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Cytotechnology | Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences (BS) Medical Laboratory Science

Basic understanding of the principles of immunohematology applied to the area of blood blanking including major blood group systems, principles for antigen/antibody detection and identification, donor blood collection, transfusion evaluation, theory of renal function in health and disease, specimen collection, handling, and processing, and components of routine urinalysis.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Exercise Science (BS) General Exercise Science | Exercise Science (BS) Practitioner

This course is designed as research experience to RISEbio scholars. Students taking this course will be involved in an original research project that is mentored by faculty. Using a variety of methods, students will collect original data and contribute to problem solving in the biological sciences. As an early research experience, emphasis will be placed on the process of scientific research, including formulation of a research plan, data collection, assessment of data quality and interpretation based on available data. Students are required to keep a lab notebook, work in teams and present their findings to classmates and a wider audience.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106. RISEbio program participant, instructor permission

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

The structure and function of stream ecosystems are presented with emphasis on adaptations of organisms to stream life and connections between stream organisms, the aquatic environment, and the surrounding watershed. Includes lab, field work, and team projects. Prereq: BIOL 105W, BIOL 106, BIOL 215 or consentSummer

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 215 or consent

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Biology (BS) Organismal Biology and Ecology | Earth Science (BS) | Environmental Science (BS)

Applications of principles from ecology, genetics, behavior, demography, economics, philosophy, and other fields to the conservation and sustainable use of natural populations of plants and animals. Lectures and discussions address topics such as habitat fragmentation, parks and reserves, genetic diversity, population viability, and extinction.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 215 or consent

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Agriculture Minor

To provide students the values and functions of wetlands and to use wetlands as an example of the relationship of ecology to management, and the impact that classification systems have politically. Lab (fieldwork) included.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 215

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Agriculture Minor | Biology (BS) Organismal Biology and Ecology | Earth Science (BS) | Environmental Science (BS)

This course will explore the biology and diversity of fishes. Students will understand the major structure, physiology, ecology, and evolution of fishes with special relation to fisheries and conservation management.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 215

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Biology (BS) Organismal Biology and Ecology | Environmental Science (BS)

A field course focused on the function and dynamics of various North American ecosystems. Emphases will be on natural history, critical thought, and experimental design. Students will be trained in a variety of soil, plant, and animal sampling techniques. Depending on enrollment, there may be additional costs (e.g., camping fees) for the course.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 215 or consent

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Biology (BS) Organismal Biology and Ecology | Environmental Science (BS) | Life Science Teaching (5-12) (BS)

This class examines the effects of natural and human-induced changes in climate on terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The course focuses on the science behind global change issues that have biological, social, and economic implicatons.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 215 or consent

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Agricultural Sciences (BS) | Agriculture Minor | Earth Science (BS)

This course will examine multiple facets of human genetics. The modern human genome is not a static entity but one that arose from a dynamic combination of inputs from multiple human species, effects from the environment, and their mixture over time. The first third of the course will study ancient human genetics and their contributions to our genome, the second will study human ancestry and migration patterns, and human population genetics. The final third of the course will investigate the modern human genome, genetic diseases, genetic engineering of our genome, and the future of human genetics and its ethical implications.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Soil ecology will focus on the genesis and classification of soils, the physical properties of soil as they relate to habitat formation, niches, interactions that exist among soil organisms, human impact on soil systems relative to population pressures and management practices. Lab included.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 215, or consent

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Agriculture Minor | Biology (BS) Organismal Biology and Ecology | Earth Science (BS) | Environmental Science (BS)

The advent of next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing technology has revolutionized Biology, leading to transformational insights in disciplines spanning medicine, molecular taxonomy, conservation, and agriculture. This course will introduce students to computational and bioinformatics tools necessary to address and analyze Big Data, with special attention paid to interpretation and communication through figures. Students will be free to analyze publicly-available data of their choosing alongside curated cohorts while learning how to critically assess bioinformatics conclusions found within primary research literature. No prior computer programming experience is necessary. The associated lab will focus on computational analysis and the introduction of sequencing techniques.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 211

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

This course will discuss the evolution and diversification of fishes with an emphasis on anatomy, physiology, development, behavior, classification, and select fish's ecological role in major systems. Students will also develop identification skills on fish characteristics that define major taxonomic groupings. Laboratory will focus on identification and physical manipulation of fishes.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 306

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

This course will discuss the evolution and diversification of birds with an emphasis on anatomy, development, behavior, migration, and mating systems. Students are expected to participate in field-based projects on spatial and temporal distributions of local bird populations. Students will also develop identification skills on regional bird species.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 105, BIOL 106, BIOL 306

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources