MICROBIOLOGY / 221


 GRADUATE COURSES
MCY 650-PUBLIC HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY. 1 to 6 credits
 Identical with MED 650. Prerequisites: Consent of department chairman and
director of laboratories. Reference study and laboratory practice of diagnostic tech-
niques in the Microbiological Diagnostic Laboratory of the Shands Teaching Hospital
of the University of Florida Health Center or in residence at the Bureau of Labora-
tories, State Department of Health, Jacksonville, Florida. May be repeated with
change of content up to a maximum of 18 credits.
MCY 651-SPECIAL TOPICS IN MICROBIOLOGY. 1 to 6 credits
 Identical with MED 651. Prerequisite: 6 credits in graduate major courses.
Contemporary research in a particular aspect of general microbiology. May be re-
peated with change of content up to a maximum of 6 credits.
MCY 652-VIROLOGY. 5 credits
 Identical with MED 652. Selected topics on modern concepts of the nature of
viruses and mechanism of viral infection, chosen from the field of animal, bacterial,
and plant viruses.
MCY 653-VIROLOGY LABORATORY. 3 credits
 Identical with MED 653. Prerequisite or corequisite: MCY 652. Selected labora-
 tory experiments concerned with the nature of viruses and mechanisms of viral
 replication and other consequences of viral infections.
 MCY 654-RESEARCH PLANNING. 5 credits
 Identical with MED 654. Prerequisite: 20 credits in progressive study of micro-
 biology. Processes involved in scientific research, including initiating a problem,
 experimental techniques, analyses and evaluation of data, and reporting, illustrated
 by bacteriological examples.
 MCY 655-EXPERIMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY. 2 to 5 credits
 Identical with MED 655. Prerequisite: 12 credits of microbiology. Application
 of physical, chemical, and biological techniques to experimental problems in micro-
 biology. Individual laboratory study. May be repeated with change of content up
 to a maximum of 8 credits.
 MCY 656-THE LITERATURE OF MICROBIOLOGY. 3 credits
 Identical with MED 656. Prerequisite: 12 credits of microbiology. Bibliographic
 method in searching the literature. Literature of specified areas of the discipline.
 MCY 657-MICROBIAL METABOLISM. 5 credits
 Identical with MED 657. Prerequisite: BCH 603. Intermediary metabolism of
 microorganisms; metabolic pathways that are unique or characteristic primarily
 of microorganisms.
 MCY 658-MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY. 5 credits
 Identical with MED 658. Prerequisite: MCY 657. Structural and functional
 elements of microorganisms and mechanics of their regulatory systems. Mechanisms
 of control of microbial DNA replication, cell division, ribosome and cell-wall
 formation, kinetic studies of normal and abnormal growth.
 MCY 659-PRINCIPLES OF IMMUNOLOGY. 5 credits
 Identical with MED 659. Prerequisite: MCY 505 or MED 551. Biological and
 biochemical aspects of host resistance and immunity. Chemical and physicochemical
 properties of the proteins of immune reactions.
 MCY 660-IMMUNOLOGY LABORATORY. 3 credits
 Identical with MED 660. Prerequisite: Consent of staff. Corequisite: MCY 659.
 MCY 661-BIOLOGY OF UNCOMMON MICROORGANISMS. 5 credits