Online Microbiology through Johns Hopkins

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Hi,

I need to finish two more prerequisites for nursing school (human growth & development and micro with lab). I have signed up for the online micro course with virtual lab offered through Johns Hopkins and the nursing school I have applied to approves it; however, I am wondering if anyone here has taken an online course through JHU (particularly with lab) and if your experience was a positive one? I have no prior micro background other than bio 1. Thanks!

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You should look into New Mexico Junior College or Clovis Community College, they both offer Microbiology lecture and lab online and the out of district/state cost isn't bad at all (under $400).

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An update for you - I got A+ in both Anatomy and Nutrition and an A in Human Development- all taken this past semester at Johns Hopkins online.

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Woo! Congrats hopeful and thanks for letting me know! Where are you hoping to apply to nursing school?

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I've applied to Johns Hopkins for the masters entry in nursing for spring 2016...should find out next month how it went!

Best of luck to you!

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This comment may be too late, but maybe it will still help someone. Have you considered Edukan.org? I am doing most of my nursing pre-req's there as they are all offered. There is even the option for late star but are more accelerated, each semester.

The courses are very high quality and much cheaper than a John Hopkins. lol

your Credit goes to of of about 5 community colleges in Kansas, so would be the minor issue of having the credit transferred where you are heading. I thought it was just for Kansas State residents, but I have fellow students in my Developmental Psych class from California. A very few teachers require (only one of 4 of mine) proctored final exams. You merely make arrangements at local library or adult learning center, college etc and they supervise your test.

This is just something to consider :)

Good luck in your online studies:)

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replying to my own post to include a point I forgot about the online courses at Edukan.org. Many (but not all) of the courses include imbedded etext books so there is no text book to buy. You pay a 115 dollar fee, which was cheaper than the 230.00 hard copy text in my bookstore.

:)

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Thanks for posting! I looked up Edukan and the classes are very affordable/regionally accredited. I will check with my school if they will accept for credit. :)

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Hi! I'm currently in the JHU online Human Growth and Development Course. How was the first test and how do you recommend preparing for it? Thank you!

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I'm midway through Microbiology with Johns Hopkins online. I also took a few weeks of Micro at my community college (but left to do the work online instead). I highly recommend the JH course. I'm learning a ton and all of the material directly relates to health care, as opposed to the micro class I took at CC which was much more general and therefore not quite as interesting to me. The online labs are really fun and as lifelike as an online lab can be....I made a mistake and threw out a lit bunsen burner and the online garbage can blew up - which I found surprising and hilarious. The weekly quizzes are hard, particularly if you struggle with timed testing, but there are lots of opportunities to raise your grade. My quiz average is a B- but my lab average is an A+. There are also two discussion papers to write. I've just finished the first.

If you are going to a school that allows online science courses - which is almost every school outside of California - I can't recommend JH highly enough. I'll be doing Chemistry with them as well. Feel free to ask me if you have specific questions.

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I am strongly considering taking micro, nutrition, and developmental psych at JH online. Can you share more about the exams/quizzes and grading? What kind of discussion paper do you have to write? How long do the labs take you? What do you mean by the weekly quizzes are hard? Very detailed or...? Is it open book?

I've never done an online class so this is all new to me!

I'm midway through Microbiology with Johns Hopkins online. I also took a few weeks of Micro at my community college (but left to do the work online instead). I highly recommend the JH course. I'm learning a ton and all of the material directly relates to health care, as opposed to the micro class I took at CC which was much more general and therefore not quite as interesting to me. The online labs are really fun and as lifelike as an online lab can be....I made a mistake and threw out a lit bunsen burner and the online garbage can blew up - which I found surprising and hilarious. The weekly quizzes are hard, particularly if you struggle with timed testing, but there are lots of opportunities to raise your grade. My quiz average is a B- but my lab average is an A+. There are also two discussion papers to write. I've just finished the first.

If you are going to a school that allows online science courses - which is almost every school outside of California - I can't recommend JH highly enough. I'll be doing Chemistry with them as well. Feel free to ask me if you have specific questions.

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Hi newgirl,

The grading is very straightforward. There are 10 units to complete over ten weeks and each unit is comprised of reading, videos, and learning activities to supplement the reading. There is also a lab and a quiz. The lab takes me about 3 hours to complete - but that's probably b/c I'm meticulous and I often do it more than once to check my results. You can do them as many times as you want before you submit them. I know I'm a terrible test taker so to end the class with an A I have to ace the labs and papers. The unit quizzes are open book, open note, 10 questions, and timed at 30 minutes. Sounds easy, right? It's not! Each question has several right answers and you have to choose the best. I know the material and it's still hard for me. It might not be for you. There are two discussion papers of 250 words each. One is about viruses and one is about the pathogen of your choice. I enjoyed researching and writing my virus paper. There's also a midterm/50 multiple choice questions and a final/50 multiple choice questions.

Overall - the class is demanding but do-able and I'm really enjoying learning about microbes...I'll never eat anything I left out for too long again. :)

Let me know if you have more questions.

Finn's mom

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Finn's mom,

Thank you for sharing. Although these courses are "prerequisites", but are they design for people with no science background? I'm wondering if they would turn out to be more advanced into the subject than I understood from the website's course contents. I'm asking because I haven't studied science in a long while and want to get back into it. Since it is expensive, I wanted to be sure I am no lacking in the prerequisites to these online prerequisite courses.

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