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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The Virology certification course helps candidates gain knowledge about the fundamental aspects of viral diseases such as their causes and designated treatments. Viruses are the reason behind numerous infectious diseases in animals and plants. While this may sound common, most viruses are not curable and are challenging to treat.
The Virology training course online will also help you to dive deep into the structure, mode of transmission, replication, and cultivation methods of these viruses, which will ultimately help you to find an effective cure. The curriculum also covers virology’s current developments so that candidates are aware of pathogenicity and the drug development targets.
The Virology programme is taught by Dr. Raghavendra M.P, an expert in the field of microbiology and with numerous research papers to his name. The course also covers the virus's beneficial aspects, along with its long-term usage in the field of medicine and agriculture. Therefore, it is highly beneficial for candidates who want to help in the area of drug development.
The Highlights
- Weekly multiple choice quiz
- Final examination
- Certificate of completion
- Credit transfer
- Weekly Assignments
- Proctored exam
- In-term assessment
- Downloadable reading material
- Discussion forum
- 12-week programme
- Undergraduate level
- Elective course
- Professional faculty
- Video lecture
Programme Offerings
- completion certificate
- credit transfer
- Online Video Lecture
- Reading Materials
- Final Proctored Assessment
- Weekly Assignments
- Trained Faculty
- discussion forum
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Maharani's Science College for Women, Mysore |
Eligibility Criteria
Anybody who wants to attend the Virology course can apply for the same irrespective of their study or work background.
To avail of the government certificate and credit transfer, all candidates should pay the respective fee and give the final assessment at designated centres allotted by Swayam. The only prerequisite for this being, all candidates have to secure 40% in the final examination and 40% in the in-course assessment, which carries 30% of their overall result.
What you will learn
Once you finish the course Virology, you will learn the following:
- Understanding aspects of viral infections
- All about the structure of viruses
- All about the evolution of viruses
- Understanding the types of viruses
- All about the treatment of viruses
- Using viral vectors for expression and cloning
- Understanding Phage display and Gene therapy
- All about the history of vaccines
- All about the viruses and future
- Understanding drug development
Who it is for
Candidates interested in the study of viruses and pursuing a career in virology research and development will gain immense opportunities through this course. Moreover, Candidates from any background can apply for the Virology programme by Swayam.
Admission Details
Candidates who wish to pursue the Virology online programme by Swayam should follow the steps given below:
- Visit the website of Swayam: https://swayam.gov.in/.
- Type ‘Virology’ in the search option and read go to the course detail page by clicking on it.
- On the top right corner, choose the ‘Join’ option to go to the login/sign up page. Here, you can register through your Google, Facebook, Microsoft account, or create a Swayam account.
- Further, an email will be sent for verification. After the verification is finished, you will be ready to start the programme.
Application Details
All candidates who wish to attend the Virology online course must register on Swayam using their Google, Facebook, Microsoft account. Alternatively, they can create their SWAYAM account to proceed. Once the registration process will be completed, the candidates will receive a verification code at their email address. After confirming the code, they will receive the comprehensive reading material for the course and can start learning immediately.
The Syllabus
- Discovery, nature, origin, and evolutionary importance of viruses
- Viral taxonomy: Classification and nomenclature of different groups of viruses
- Structure of Viruses
- Isolation, purification, and cultivation of viruses
- Regulation of transcription in lambda phage
- Diversity, classification, and one step multiplication curve
- Phage phenotypes, phenotype mixing, and phage therapy
- Lytic and lysogenic phages
- Intracellular trafficking, assembly, maturation, and release
- Principal events involved in replication: Adsorption, penetration, and uncoating
- Host response to viral infection
- Viral nucleic acid and protein synthesis
- SV40 and Adenovirus, Poxviruses
- TMV and BBTV
- Hepatitis and Retroviruses
- Herpes, Polio and Influenza virus
- Characterization of a viral product expressed in the infected cells
- Physical and biological methods of detection of viruses
- Visualization and enumeration of virus particles
- Immunological and molecular methods detection of viruses
- Purifying plant viruses using chromatography, centrifugation, and electrophoresis techniques
- Viruses as biopesticides
- Methods employed in identifying plant viruses
- General methods of propagation of plant viruses
- Herpes, Polio, Rabies, Smallpox
- Common cold, SARS, Influenza
- HIV, Hepatitis, Dengue, Yellow fever
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Human papilloma
- Understanding human carcinogenesis by using tumor viruses as experimental tools
- Introduction to oncogenic viruses
- Prevention and treatment of virus-induced cancer
- Concepts of oncogenes and proto-oncogenes
- Viral Chemotherapy: Nucleoside analogs, reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors
- Host nonspecific and specific defense mechanisms involved in resistance to and recovery from virus infections
- History of vaccines, especially polio and smallpox. New methods: subunit vaccines, DNA vaccines, and anti-idiotype
- Role of interferon in viral infections
- Emerging and re-emerging viruses
- Use of viral vectors in cloning and expression
- Viruses and future
- Gene therapy and Phage display
Exam preparation and assessment of assignments
Assessment at the end of the course, which comprises of 40% of Online or In-term assessment and 60% Proctored end term exam.
Evaluation process
The candidates have a choice to opt for a certificate. In case you want it, you have to pay for and attempt the final examination. This proctored test will take place at a designated centre allocated by SWAYAM. The exam will have 100 questions and will carry a weightage of 70 percent in the overall result. The candidates need to secure a passing percentage of 40 in the same.
Instructors
Maharani's Science College for Women, Mysore Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
The commencement date of the course was 6th July 2020.
This course is designed for the undergraduate level.
Yes. The in-course weekly assessments 30 percentage weightage in the overall score.
All candidates have to secure 40 percent to pass the final assessment.
The final assessment will comprise 100 questions, and there will be negative marking.