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A new, multi-institutional graduate level food safety course is being offered during the Spring 2013 semester. This distance learning course will be taught collaboratively at Cornell, Texas Tech University, Purdue University and North Carolina Statue University. Expected enrollment is approximately 30 students across all universities. The course will provide an overview of foodborne pathogens (bacterial and viral), detection/subtyping of foodborne pathogens along with epidemiological approaches to foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak investigation. Participants will complete four instructor-guided case studies on foodborne pathogen contamination, transmission, and disease (i.e., pre-harvest, processing plant, retail, and outbreak investigation) and develop a case study to be presented to the class. An online video conferencing system will be used to communicate across institutions during each scheduled weekly class meeting. We will also be using social media to share food safety related news. The course twitter account is FoodSafetyNewsCNCPT (Cornell, North Carolina State, Purdue, Texas Tech students sharing food safety news) and students will use their own accounts to share food safety related tweets. Follow us on twitter to see more! After completing this course, students will be able to...
Class schedule: 1-28-13 "Introduction to foodborne pathogens, molecular detection/subtyping and epidemiological approaches to foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak detection" 2-4-13 Case Study 1 (Part 1): "Pre-harvest food safety: Foodborne pathogens and produce" 2-11-13 Case Study 1 (Part 2): "Pre-harvest food safety: Foodborne pathogens and produce" 2-18-13: Case Study 2 (Part 1): "Persistence of Foodborne pathogens in the Food Processing Plant Environment" 2-25-13: Case Study 2 (Part 2): "Persistence of Foodborne pathogens in the Food Processing Plant Environment" 3-4-13 Spring Break North Carolina State University (Students work in groups to develop case studies outside of class) 3-11-13 Spring Break Texas Tech University/Purdue University (Students work in groups to develop case studies outside of class) 3-18-13 Spring Break Cornell University (Students work in groups to develop case studies outside of class) 3-25-13 Case Study 3 (Part 1): "Foodborne Virus Transmission at Retail" 4-1-13 Case Study 3 (Part 2): "Foodborne Virus Transmission at Retail" 4-8-13 Case Study 4 (Part 1): "Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigation" 4-15-13 Case Study 4 (Part 2): "Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigation" 4-22-13 Student Presentations 4-29-13 Final Exam |
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