To provide basic information to undergraduate students about zoonotic, economically important or politically important diseases of livestock (particularly mammalian food animals and horses).

The world is experiencing tremendous changes that have ramifications for numerous diseases. This course will focus on the effects of climate change, habitat loss, and other factors on the transmission of infectious and vector-borne diseases that impact wildlife or use wildlife as reservoirs. We will also discuss intervention strategies.

Wildlife health is intricately connected to wildlife biology, veterinary medicine, and infectious diseases, necessitating a specialized educational track to equip students with the unique knowledge and skills required to address these issues. This course will examine the key concepts involved in an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to wildlife health.

Introduces students to current issues and the multi-disciplinary responses to pressing wildlife health problems via a series of guest lecturers and readings from peer-reviewed manuscripts. This class will be heavily discussion-based.

Advanced Topics in Wildlife Health is a dynamic, experiential learning course designed to immerse undergraduate students in the forefront of wildlife health research and management. Students will engage in hands-on experiences and will gain an understanding of the intricacies involved in wildlife health research.

Common infectious, parasitic, and nutritional diseases of poultry: the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and control. Offered to students majoring in poultry science and others who are qualified.

Focuses on the biology of parasites responsible for diseases in domestic animals, humans, and wildlife in the face of global climate change. The course is organized by parasite group providing an overview of major parasite taxa, presentation of the disease, and management and control responses for each major parasite group.

The lab portion of this course will supplement the lecture by providing a hands-on, skills-based practicum in the identification of parasites responsible for diseases in domestic animals, humans, and wildlife in the face of global climate change. Students will learn a variety of parasitological techniques and navigate dichotomous keys to identify key features of specimens discussed in the lecture.

Students will develop skills and acquire knowledge of arthropod vectors in the southeast. Students will be exposed to and perform a variety of standard entomological techniques for vector identification and taxonomy, field-based techniques for capturing or attracting vectors, and how these techniques are used by various agencies and personnel for vector control.

The world is experiencing tremendous changes that have ramifications for numerous diseases. Investigation of the effects of climate change, habitat loss, and other factors on the transmission of infectious and vector-borne diseases that impact wildlife or use wildlife as reservoirs. Discussion of some of the most common vectors and their associated diseases, as well as the effects on wildlife populations. Intervention strategies, management applications, and the successes and failures of previous wildlife disease and mortality responses.

Molecular basis of bacterial virulence: identification of virulence factors, genetic regulation of virulence, and the complex interactions between bacterial pathogens and their hosts.

Molecular basis of bacterial virulence. Identification of virulence factors, genetic regulation of virulence, and the complex interactions between bacterial pathogens and their hosts. Service-learning component of course prepares students for communicating relevant scientific concepts to the general public in post-graduate activities.