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Program Overview

The program, MICR3921: Microbes in Health and Disease (Advanced), is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the critical role that microbes play in health and disease. This unit is structured along three themes:

1. Microbes in the anthropocene: evaluating the role of microbes in healthy and disturbed ecosystems and how epidemiology and surveillance can track disease outbreaks;
2. Emergence of microbes: exploring how and why infectious diseases emerge and re-emerge;
3. Current challenges and new approaches: evaluating the role of microbes in chronic diseases and diseases of unknown cause, and how new drugs and treatments are developed and used.

Unit Details and Rules

• Managing Faculty or University School: Science
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Academic Unit: Life and Environmental Sciences Academic Operations
• Credit Points: 6
• Enrolment Rules:
  • Prerequisites: A mark of 65 or above in (MIMI2X02 or MEDS2004 or MICR2X22 or MICR2X31 or BMED2404)
  • Corequisites: None
  • Prohibitions: MICR3011 or MICR3021 or MICR3911
  • Assumed Knowledge: Fundamental concepts of microorganisms, biomolecules, and ecosystems

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. LO1: Assess, analyse, and evaluate the role of microbes in our environment, how they can act to provide healthy ecosystems, water, food, animals, and people, and how this can be disrupted, resulting in disruption leading to disease outcomes.
2. LO2: Evaluate and develop an advanced understanding of how microbes might emerge or re-emerge to impact on global health, using specific illustrative examples.
3. LO3: Evaluate and develop an advanced understanding of the ways in which important microbes pose ongoing challenges to human and planetary health, and new approaches to meet these challenges.
4. LO4: Interpret complex microbiology laboratory findings, analyse data, and assess and validate methodologies.
5. LO5: Demonstrate and develop an advanced, high-level practical dexterity in the biosafety context and knowledge and skills relevant to the microbiology profession.
6. LO6: Critically evaluate and synthesise the research literature and other sources to create and communicate independent ideas and knowledge relating to microbes in current real-world challenges.

Unit Availability

This unit is available in various sessions, including:

• Semester 1 2025: Normal day, Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney
• Semester 1 2026: Normal day, Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney
• Previous years: Semester 1 2022, Semester 1 2023, Semester 1 2024, all with Normal day attendance mode at Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney locations.