Vaccines
Vaccines Course
How do vaccines work?
This Vaccines Course provides a foundation to understanding the immune response to vaccinations, development of vaccines, and the significance of individual human and animal vaccines.
Typical Schedule of Vaccines Course Topics
| Week | Day | Topic |
| 1 | M
W |
— Lec 01: Introduction to Vaccines |
| 2 | M
W |
Frontline, The Vaccine War, part 2 and Class Discussion
Lec 03: Vaccine Immunology |
| 3 | M
W |
Lec 04: Vaccine Components
Lec 05: Smallpox and vaccinia |
| 4 | M
W |
Lec 06: Rabies vaccine
Lec 07: Polio vaccine |
| 5 | M
W |
Exam 1: Lectures 01-07
Exam 1 Feedback and Class Discussion on Current Topics in Vaccines |
| 6 | M
W |
Lec 08: Diptheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccines
flexible schedule |
| 7 | M
W |
Lec 09: Tuberculosis vaccines
Primary Literature / Student Lectures Session 1 Current Vaccine Research |
| 8 | M
W |
Lec 10: Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines
Primary Literature / Student Lectures Session 2 Current Vaccine Research |
| 9 | M
W |
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| 10 | M
W |
Lec 11: Varicella zoster virus vaccines
Primary Literature / Student Lectures Session 3 Current Vaccine Research |
| 11 | M
W |
Exam 2: Lectures 08-11
Exam 2 Feedback and Class Discussion on Current Topics in Vaccines |
| 12 | M
W |
Lec 12: Typhoid vaccines
Lec 13: Hepatitis A and B virus vaccines |
| 13 | M
W |
Lec 14: Influenza virus vaccines
Lec 15: Human papilloma virus vaccines |
| 14 | M
W |
Lec 16: Vaccines in development
Student Presentations Session 4: Lectures on Current Vaccine Research |
| 15 | M
W |
flexible schedule
flexible schedule |
| 16 | M
W |
Special Lecture on Vaccine Aversion Research
Cumulative Final Exam |
*Flexible Schedules are designed:
- to accommodate university closings and
- to discuss new developments in Vaccines that occurred during the semester