Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This module continues the microbiology and virology teaching as a natural extension of BS127 (Agents of Infectious Disease) with a focus on the influence of micro-organisms on everyday life and how infections can arise when simple hygiene goes wrong

Principal learning outcomes

Through this module students should gain an appreciation of the requirements for and the methods of control of contamination of drinking water and food. An understanding of the most prevalent infections in this context will be gained, and this will be extended into the area of emerging and re-emerging infections

Timetabled teaching activities

Lectures 1-5. Water: sources, supply and quality,Lectures 6-10. Food-borne disease,Lectures 11-15. Emerging Infectious Disease.Lectures 16-20. Antibiotics: Use and Abuse,Lectures 21-25. Bioterrorism Agents and Disease,

Departmental link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/intranet/teach/1styr/lectures/healthcomm/

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
12 CATS (Module code: BS131-12)
B (Examination only)	1 hour examination	100%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

• Undergraduate Biomedical Science (MBio) (C1A3) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology (MBio) (C1A4) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Biomedical Science (C1B9) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Microbiology and Virology (C520) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology (C526) - Year 1

Optional

• Undergraduate Environmental Biology (C150) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Biomedical Science with Industrial Placement (MBio) (C1A7) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Medical Microbiology and Virology with Industrial Placement (MBio) (C1A8) - Year 1