My goal and mission in this course are to help my students in non-science major to become scientifically knowledgeable and to appreciate the beauty and the unity of biology. Students in today’s world are being exposed, on daily bases, to exiting new discoveries. If you could learn anything from this course, I hope it would be this: Biology is all about the life and you, and it touches it every day, in so many ways. It is creative, and it is fun to know it. This course of biology essentials will include at least ten chapters, it is not possible to include all the materials in one-term course, but they will provide you a rich introduction to main concepts and importance of biology and relation to human health as well. The course is organized into four parts: Biology and life; Genetics, Evolution; Diversity of Life, and Ecology and Environment. For each chapter you will have take-home assignment, concepts in daily life, check your knowledge, review, and questions, what is these concepts. This is just a
sampling of the features provided in this course. It is my task, as instructor, to bring all those things available to my students, but also to enlighten why these concepts are so important to their lives and society. I really hope that our students find it engaging and important that will help you to be in your best class ever. Enjoy!!!

Microbiology lab is very interesting and exciting experience, design to supplement the course required for biology, allied health, nursing major students as well as transferred course for medical, pharmacy, veterinarian, and agricultural schools and universities. The course will cover 10 or more exercises. Following are major features of each section: Introduction, Fundamental skills and safety rules, Microbial cell structure, Chemical composition, Microscopy, Staining techniques, Growth Media, and others. The course is complete and as we follow it, new ideas for presentation or adding of a content may/will occur for future changes. Enjoy!!!

This is an exciting yet challenging time to be teaching and to be learning about microbiology. The need to provide accurate and current information about the good and bad microbes seems greater than ever. Almost everyday media describes illness arising from contaminated food, the discovery of microbes in an environment once considered impossible to sustain life, the sequencing of another genome, or the dead of another individual from a rare infectious disease. Anyone glancing from the news cannot help but realize the impact that microbes have in our daily lives. This course presents what I believe are the most important facts and concepts about the microbial world and the important role its members play to us every day. An important consideration in developing the course is the diverse interests among our students who take this microbiology course. As always, many students take microbiology course as prerequisite for nursing, allied health, pharmacy, dental, agriculture, and biology programs, or as a step in the pursuit of other fields, including biotechnology, food science, and ecology. A suitable course like this one must provide a solid foundation in basic aspects of microorganisms (covered in the first six (6) chapters), coverage of immune system (chapters 7-9) and infectious disease on organs and systems (chapters 10-16). To address this broad range of aspects and student backgrounds, the course has incorporated numerous learning aids that will facilitate review for some advanced students and will be tremendous support to those who are seeing the material for the first time. I hope you will find that the approach and structure of this course presents a modern and balanced view of microbiology in our world, acknowledging the profound and essential impact that microbes have on our lives today and their role in our lives tomorrow. Enjoy!