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Nov 23, 2024
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WFS 405 - Disease Ecology3 Credit Hours
Many crucial issues in ecology involve outbreaks of harmful diseases. Research on the ecology of infectious diseases has increased tremendously in recent years, fueled by challenges to global human health and ecological conservation as well as advances in theory and molecular technologies. This course will be broken into two parts. The first will focus on the functional and taxonomic diversity of parasites, transmission routes of parasites, mathematical models for the population dynamics of disease, the effects of parasitism on individual hosts and populations, and disease dynamics in host communities. Part II of this course will link the conceptual grounding developed in part I to optimal surveillance strategies for pathogens, cutting edge diagnostic tools in infectious disease, the prevention of zoonotic emergence, and a One Health approach to wildlife health.
(Same as EEB 402 )
Satisfies Volunteer Core Requirement: (WC)
(RE) Prerequisite(s): BIOL 260 or equivalent; MATH 125 * or equivalent; ENGL 102 *, ENGL 112 *, ENGL 132 *, or ENGL 298 *
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