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Apr 25, 2024
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Catalog 2018-2019 [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. Includes laboratory.
Prerequisites: FSE 251
Corequisites: FSE 271
Quarters Offered: Winter
Student Outcomes/Competencies:
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
Total Hours: 50 Lecture Hours: 30 Lab or Clinical Hours: 20
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