5 credits
Prerequisites: Two college courses in Biology and/or EEB; permission of instructor.
Requirements: BS, NS, PitE and EEB Field Experience, Lab
Meets: Tuesdays and Fridays
Instructor: Curt Blankespoor and Randall De Jong
Course Description
Many of the most notorious tropical human parasitic diseases (e.g., malaria, swimmer’s itch, hookworm, sleeping sickness) have closely-related sister species that infect Michigan wildlife. This provides us with a unique opportunity to study living models of human parasitic diseases in a field setting.
In this course, you will take an evolutionary and ecological approach to understanding parasites and infectious disease, including treatment and control strategies.
