Exploring term Fall 2023 Change
- ACAN: Arts of Canada
- ADMN: Public Administration
- AE: Art Education
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- ATWP: Academic and Technical Writing Program
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- BIOL: Biology
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- CE: Community Engagement
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- CIVE: Civil Engineering
- COM: Commerce
- CS: Canadian Studies
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- CW: Creative Writing (En'owkin Centre)
- CYC: Child and Youth Care
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- DSST: Disability Studies (DSS)
- ECE: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- ED-D: Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
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- HDCC: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
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- STAT: Statistics
- TCA: Transformative Climate Action
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- VIRS: Visiting International Research Studies
- VKUR: Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award
- WRIT: Writing
- BIOL150A: Modern Biology
- BIOL150B: Modern Biology
- BIOL184: Evolution and Biodiversity
- BIOL186: Physiology and Cell Biology
- BIOL215: Principles of Ecology
- BIOL225: Principles of Cell Biology
- BIOL230: Principles of Genetics
- BIOL248: Topics in Organismal Biology
- BIOL307: Chordate Zoology
- BIOL309: Developmental Biology
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- BIOL312: Entomology
- BIOL319: Marine Ecology
- BIOL321: Survey of Invertebrates
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- BIOL324: Biology of Land Plants
- BIOL325: Tree Biology
- BIOL326: Development and Genetics of Model Plants
- BIOL329: Biology of the Vertebrates of British Columbia
- BIOL330: Study Design and Data Analysis
- BIOL334: Plants and People
- BIOL335: Ichthyology
- BIOL336: Biology of Algae
- BIOL345: Animal Behaviour
- BIOL346: Freshwater Ecosystems
- BIOL351: The Biology behind the News
- BIOL355: Evolution
- BIOL359: Food, Disease and People
- BIOL360: Cell Biology
- BIOL361: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- BIOL362: Practical Skills in Genomics
- BIOL365: Animal Physiology
- BIOL366: Plant Physiology
- BIOL367: Neurobiology: Molecules to Behaviour
- BIOL370: Conservation Biology
- BIOL400: History of Biology
- BIOL401A: Biotechnology
- BIOL404: Sensory Biology
- BIOL409B: Experimental Neurobiology
- BIOL410: Herpetology
- BIOL415C: Mycology
- BIOL418: Forest Ecology
- BIOL432: Molecular Endocrinology
- BIOL435: Molecular Evolution
- BIOL436: Human Molecular Genetics
- BIOL438: Nutrient Cycling and Prokaryotes
- BIOL439: Molecular Epidemiology
- BIOL446: Advanced Aquatic Ecology
- BIOL447: Ion Channels and Disease
- BIOL448: Neuroethology
- BIOL449: Flowering Plant Diversity
- BIOL457: Paleoecology and Environmental Change
- BIOL458: Plant Biochemistry and Biochemical Ecology
- BIOL459: Human Microbial Diseases
- BIOL460: Honours Seminar
- BIOL461: Fisheries Ecology and Management
- BIOL462: Community and Ecosystem
- BIOL465: The Molecular Basis of Cancer
- BIOL466: Frontiers in Marine Biology
- BIOL467: Neural Development
- BIOL468: Food Web Ecology
- BIOL470: Advanced Topics in Biology
- BIOL490A: Directed Studies and Research in Botany
- BIOL490B: Directed Studies and Research in Ecology
- BIOL490D: Directed Studies and Research in Marine Biology
- BIOL490E: Directed Studies and Research in Zoology
- BIOL490F: Directed Studies and Research in Cell and Molecular Biology
- BIOL490G: Directed Studies and Research in Evolution
- BIOL490H: Directed Studies and Research in Neurobiology
- BIOL490J: Directed Studies and Research in Forest Biology
- BIOL490K: Directed Studies in Communication in the Biological Sciences
- BIOL499A: Honours Thesis I
- BIOL499B: Honours Thesis II
BIOL459
Human Microbial Diseases
An introduction to human infectious diseases and the biology and ecology of pathogenic bacteria and viruses. Basic principles of epidemiology of infectious diseases. Methods of control: antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines. Classification, pathogenicity, molecular diagnostic, epidemiology of various types of human infectious diseases (respiratory, digestive, etc.).
Lecture: 3h
Lab: 0h
Tutorial: 0h
Credits: 1.5