This course will focus on the structure and physiology of free-living and pathogenic bacteria. The diversity of their metabolic activities, the interaction of microbes with their environment, symbiotic relationships and cell-to-cell communication are major topics. Lectures and laboratory exercises are coordinated to explore topics in basic microbiology, environmental microbiology, molecular microbiology, and the production of economically or medically important products through microbial biotechnology.

Introductory course in medical microbiology designed for students enrolled in health care related programs. The course begins with basic information on microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and prions), the immune system, infection control, transmission of infection, epidemiology, antimicrobials, disinfection and sterilization. The later part of the course concentrates on infectious diseases caused by pathongenic microorganisms.

Reasoning and problem solving in the context of logic, algebra, geometry, and combinatorics.

Vector spaces; inner product spaces; examples of n-space and the space of continuous functions. GramSchmidt process, QR-factorization of a matrix and least squares. Linear transformations, change of basis, similarity and diagonalization. Orthogonal diagonalization, quadratic forms. Applications in a variety of fields, numerical methods.

Elementary Number Theory, Numeration Systems, Number Systems and Elementary Probability Theory are included in this course.

Applications of integration to areas, volumes, work force and arc lengths are included in this course. Differentiation and integration of exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions; techniques of integration; indeterminate forms and improper integrals.

The course will include a review of analytic geometry; functions, limits, continuity; differentiation of elementary functions; applications to maxima, minima and rates; introduction to integration; Fundamental Theorem; numerical integration; and areas and other applications of the definite integral to areas.

This course explores set theory, counting methods, probability, rational expressions and equations, and functions (polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and sinusoidal).

This course explores polynomial, radical, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions, transformation and combinations of functions, trigonometry (including the unit circle, graphs, identities and equations), and permutations and combinations.

This course explores sequences and series, radical expressions and equations, quadratic equations and functions, linear and quadratic inequalities, linear-quadratic and quadratic-quadratic systems of equations, rational expressions and equations, absolute value functions, reciprocal functions, and trigonometry including the sine and cosine laws.