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Apr 30, 2024
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Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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FSE 262 Funeral Service Microbiology4 credits
This course covers the basic principles of microbiology. It relates these principles to Funeral Service Education especially as they pertain to sanitation, disinfection, public health, and embalming practice. The development and use of personal, professional, and community hygiene and sanitation are discussed.
Prerequisites: FSE 251
Corequisites: FSE 271
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Identify basic microbial morphology and describe basic microbial physiology
- Interpret host-parasite relationships and interactions, and the requirements of successful parasitism
- Describe and apply knowledge of personal and environmental disinfection and decontamination by proper use of disinfection and sterilization procedures
- Describe the fundamentals of the infection process and specific and non-specific defense mechanisms against disease
- Understand infectious disease transmission and recognize the methods of control with special emphasis on protection of the embalmer, funeral director, and public
- Differentiate between the normal flora, true pathogens, and opportunistic pathogens commonly associated with the human host and dead human remains
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:
- use appropriate terminology to facilitate communication with members of allied professions, the public, and the funeral service industry
- identify the pathological conditions and etiological factors which require special procedures in the removal, handling, preparation, and disposition of human remains
Global Outcomes
This course teaches to the global outcome of information literacy.
Total Hours: 40 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40
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