Program Overview

Course Overview

Course Details

The course code is BTA1001, and the course name is General Microbiology. The course is worth 7.5 credits and is a foundation course at level I. It starts in the autumn of 2025 and lasts for one semester. The language of instruction is Norwegian, and the course is located in Ĺlesund.

Course Content

About the Course

The course covers microbial working techniques, viruses, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, growth, metabolism, and cell division. It also includes basic bacterial genetics and systematics, the importance of growth media and external factors for growth and control of growth, antibiotics, pathogenic, harmful, and useful microorganisms, contamination, sources and routes of contamination, and basic production hygiene, cleaning, and disinfection.

Learning Outcome

• Knowledge: The student will have knowledge of what promotes growth and what inhibits the growth of microorganisms, various forms of metabolism in microorganisms, different groups of microorganisms and diversity within the groups, microorganisms as a cause of disease and microorganisms as useful partners, where contamination can come from, how different contaminants can be transmitted, and how to prevent such transmission, and similarities and inequalities between cell types.
• Skills: The student will be able to create microbial growth media, work aseptically at the lab, grow microorganisms, and use the microscope as a work tool.
• Competence: The student will have a basic understanding of microbiology and microbial work techniques.

Learning Methods and Activities

The educational methods include lectures, group projects, and laboratory courses with compulsory exercises. The compulsory work requirements include a group project and all laboratory exercises with reporting, which must be approved. The student is expected to have a self-contribution of 200 hours, of which up to 40 hours are lectures and up to 20 hours of laboratory work.

Compulsory Assignments

• Approved group project on specific microorganisms
• Laboratory assignment

Further on Evaluation

Mandatory assignments must be approved in order to take the exam. The exam is a 4-hour written examination. Approved mandatory assignments are valid for 4 semesters.

Specific Conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required, including:

• Biomarine Innovation (298BMI)
• Biotechnology (427BT)
• Medical and Biological Studies (184BG)

Course Materials

The course material includes the book "Innfřring I mikrobiologi" by Tronsmo Arne, published by Universitetsforlaget in 2024.

Credit Reductions

The course has academic overlap with the following courses:

• MB: 7.5 sp from Autumn 2020
• TMAT1008: 5 sp from Autumn 2021
• MATV1007: 5 sp from Autumn 2021
• MB: 5 sp from Autumn 2021
• HBIOA2002: 1 sp from Autumn 2024 If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject Areas

• Biotechnology/Aqua Culture

Examination

Examination Arrangement

The examination arrangement is a school exam, with a grade based on letter grades.

Ordinary Examination - Autumn 2025

• School exam
• Weighting: 100/100
• Examination aids: Code E
• Date and time: 09:00
• Duration: 4 hours
• Exam system: Inspera Assessment
• Place and room for school exam: Ankeret/Hovedbygget, Room C215, or Laterna/Lab-bygg, Room Gymsal

Re-sit Examination - Spring 2026

• School exam
• Weighting: 100/100
• Examination aids: Code E
• Date and time: 09:00
• Duration: 4 hours
• Exam system: Inspera Assessment
• Place and room for school exam: Ankeret/Hovedbygget, Room C218