[Plsugs] FW: INDV 103 - new GE course on mushrooms, molds, and man

[Tanya Quist]

New INDV 103 course - Mushrooms, Molds and Man

 

Description of Course

An overview of how organisms in the Kingdom Fungi (mushrooms, molds, yeasts,
rusts, mildews) impact individuals and society.  Content will include
contemporary and historical contributions of fungi or fungal products as
they relate to food, medicine, religion, famine, industry, and basic
science, and how these contributions have changed the way we live, the
quality of our lives, and cultural development.

 

Course Objectives and Expected Learning Outcomes Students will become
familiar with commercial fungal products such as food and drink (bread,
salami, beer, etc.), antibiotics (penicillin, cephalosporin, etc.), other
industrial products (pharmaceuticals, enzymes, etc.), and the use of fungi
as model systems in biology research.  Students will also become familiar
with fungi that cause animal and plant diseases, in both a historical

and contemporary context (e.g., fungal infections in AIDS patients).   There

are a number of examples where the use of fungi for food or religion, or the
occurrence of fungal-caused of plant disease epidemics have changed the
course of social development, and the students will be able to place these
events within a historical context.

 

Barry M. Pryor

Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology Department of Plant Sciences
University of Arizona

1140 E. South Campus Drive

Forbes Building, Rm 303

P.O. Box 210036

Tucson, AZ  85721-0036

 

email:  <mailto:bmpryor at u.arizona.edu> bmpryor at u.arizona.edu

 

 

 

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