Course Description
To provide basic information to undergraduate students about zoonotic, economically important or politically important diseases of livestock (particularly mammalian food animals and horses).
Athena Title
FOOD ANIMAL ID
Prerequisite
BIOL 1103
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1) To provide basic information to undergraduate students about zoonotic, economically important or politically important diseases of livestock (particularly mammalian food animals and horses). 2) To address infectious diseases in a survey format, with emphasis on specific models within a class of disease and mention of other diseases that share a reasonable number of common features. 3) To provide information in a format that will keep undergraduates interested and involved (i.e., use visually oriented presentation materials in the classroom as much as possible and teach from a “major point” outline in class), but to add additional survey content in essays that are on the course website to reinforce the take home message (I will attach an example from a Freshman elective relevant to this course) 4) To provide the students a sufficient breadth and depth of understanding so they can recognize diseases of livestock that will cause serious problems to the production system if they are encountered.
Topical Outline
Basic and comparative immunology including a basic overview of pathogenesis. Food animal bacteriology and mycology Food animal parasitology Food animal virology including prion diseases