Taking Microbiology and Micro Lab Separately?

breezy7, BSN, RN · Jul 2, 2011

Has anyone does this?

Medic2RN, BSN, RN, EMT-P · Jul 2, 2011

I would check with the school or the department and see if this is feasible. I would be surprised if you were allowed to take them in separate semesters.

Personally, I wouldn't advice it since labs normally go hand in hand with the class associated with it.

my4helpers · Jul 2, 2011

I will be doing it, but I don't have a choice. I attend a University and this University has 7 branches; I am attending two of the branches. Only one of the two branches offer the ADN, which I start this fall. The other branch only offers the BSN. I have no idea why, but if you go the BSN route, you do not need the lab part of Micro, just the lecture, but for the ADN, you need both lab and lecture. I am currently taking Micro right now, but not lab because it is not offered at the BSN branch. So I am signed up to take the lab this fall, but considering it will be my first semester of nursing school, I might have to take it in the spring of 2012. One of my friends took the lecture part of micro this past spring and she is not able to take lab until spring of 2012 as well because they only have 25 spots and it was filled.

Twinmom06, ASN, APN · Jul 2, 2011

I know of several people that took Micro lab separately from the lecture due to class size/work constraints...

breezy7, BSN, RN · Jul 2, 2011

I would check with the school or the department and see if this is feasible. I would be surprised if you were allowed to take them in separate semesters.
Personally, I wouldn't advice it since labs normally go hand in hand with the class associated with it.

They're offered separately; the lecture is a pre-req or co-req for the lab, but the lab cannot be taken before the lecture. There are only 125 lab spots and over 400 lecture spots, so it is impossible for everyone taking the lecture to also take the lab simultaneously. This is the only lecture+lab combo that is set up like this at Georgia State... it seems odd.

GoldenDomer63 · Jul 3, 2011

At my school all science classes (biology, chemistry and microbiology) had separate lecture and lab components with the exception of my A&P I/II classes, which were integrated. Lecture and lab sections must be taken during the same semester as the lab and lecture represented 25% and 75% of the overall course grade, respectively.

I thought micro lab was very technical compared to chemistry and A&P, I don't know if I would want to spread it out over two semesters. Quite unusual.

IUstudent · Jul 3, 2011

at my school the lab and lecture are separate classes but i took them together.. i would recommend doing this because there were things that coincided with eachother or i would learn in one before the other making the material easy.. ended up with an a

NorCalKid · Jul 4, 2011

I took micro last semester(5 units). The lect. and lab did go together and IMO it would have been harder FOR ME if I took them separate semesters. Some people in the class were on their 3rd attempt at getting the class, that’s how impacted these classes are here. I’m sure they would have done it however possible. The class wasn’t that difficult for me. Well not from a understanding standpoint. It was the most work out of the “sciences”.

ThegIrl · Apr 15, 2021

Does anyone know any colleges/universities in New York that offers the stand-alone Microbiology lab? I’m hoping to take it this Summer.