Required Textbooks:

1.    Talaro: Foundations in Microbiology, 5^th Ed., 2005 McGraw-Hill.

2.    Johnson and Case: Laboratory Experiments in Microbiology, 7^th Ed., 2004 Pearson/Benjamin Cummings Publishing.

Do I need to buy the text book?

    MAYBE.  I think that the text book is a great reference to keep for a medical career.  It reads well, and I lecture almost directly from it.  To get an A in this course, read the text, come to lecture, use the lecture notes as a guide to parse out information from the text.  That said, I know that these books are expensive, and I've had a few students succeed (not with an A, mind you) in the course without the text.

Do I need to buy the lab book?

    YES You need to read the assigned labs ahead of time for concept and content.  Sometimes the actual methodology will change, but the content will be similar.

Will I need to hand in a lab notebook?

    NO, a lab notebook is not a graded portion of the course.  HOWEVER, I highly recommend a notebook in which you can take lab lecture notes and record data.