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Development of learning objectives to support undergraduate virology curriculum guidelines

Journal Article · · Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
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  1. Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (United States)
  2. Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL (United States)
  3. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  4. Rochester Inst. of Technology, Rochester, NY (United States)
  5. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
  6. California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), CA (United States)
  7. Duquesne Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
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It has become increasingly important for microbiology educators to help students learn critical concepts of the discipline. This is particularly true in virology, where current challenges include increasing rates of vaccine hesitancy, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, and controversy surrounding research on pathogens with pandemic potential. Having students learn virology can attract more people to the field and increase the number of people who can engage in meaningful discourse about issues relating to the discipline. However, the limited number of virologists who teach undergraduates, combined with the fact that many institutions lack stand-alone virology courses, results in virology often being taught as a limited number of lectures within an undergraduate microbiology course (if it is covered at all), which may or may not be taught by an individual trained as a virologist. To provide a framework to teach virology to undergraduate students, a team of virology educators, with support from the American Society for Virology (ASV), developed curriculum guidelines for use in a stand-alone undergraduate virology course or a virology section within another course. These guidelines are available at the ASV website (https://asv.org/curriculum-guidelines/). To assist educators in implementing these guidelines, we created examples of measurable learning objectives. This perspective provides details about the virology curriculum guidelines and learning objectives and accompanies the perspective by Boury et al. in this issue of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education about the recent revision of the microbiology curriculum guidelines overseen by the American Society for Microbiology.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0003525
OSTI ID:
2474789
Report Number(s):
SAND--2024-14431J
Journal Information:
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, Journal Name: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 25; ISSN 1935-7877
Publisher:
American Society for MicrobiologyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Writing and Using Learning Objectives journal September 2022
A Road Map for Planning Course Transformation Using Learning Objectives journal June 2024
One Health: A new definition for a sustainable and healthy future journal June 2022
Targeting Human Proteins for Antiviral Drug Discovery and Repurposing Efforts: A Focus on Protein Kinases journal February 2023

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Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
96 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION
curriculum guidelines
education
learning objectives
virology