Mammalian Toxicology

Biology 666

(Approved by Faculty Governance, Spring 2002)

Kenneth L. Campbell

Professor of Biology, UMB, originator and coordinator

OnLine Course, Scheduled Spring 2003

Anticipated enrollment up to 20 students.

This course is listed as an alternative to ECOS 635 as a core requirement for students in the Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal Biology doctoral track at UMB. The listing is of keen interest to students in the MS programs in Biotechnology and in Biology at UMB, in the ECOS program at UMB, in the cross-campus Biotechnology PhD program, and the cross-campus marine sciences PhD program. It fills a gap in the University of Massachusetts system offerings as there are no other such courses offered at any of our campuses. In NE as a whole there are very few toxicology courses being offered anywhere and no OnLine mammalian toxicology courses are available at this time.

In addition to students at UMass, this graduate offering should be of interest to graduate students and professionals in public health, environmental science or health, biomedical and pharmaceutical research and development. Since the coverage is important in considering both treatment of toxic insults (environmental or pharmaceutical) and in regulation of chemical use and distribution, the offering should have potential for a wide audience ranging across student, industrial, and professional ranks.