Undergraduate Foundation Program + Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

Program Description

The Academic English program helps students learn the English language and academic skills needed to study successfully at U.S. colleges and universities. The main program offers 6 levels of language instruction, from beginning to high advanced. Instruction focuses on building the speaking, listening, and writing skills that are essential to academic success.

WSU's Undergraduate Bridge program combines English language support with credit-bearing classes and personalized advising to help students smoothly transition to full university study. In most majors, Bridge students will graduate in the same amount of time as Direct Entry students.

Undergraduate Bridge programs are available in the following areas:

• Agricultural Sciences
• Architecture
• Business
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Fine Arts
• General Studies
• Journalism and Communication
• Mathematics
• Science

Microbiology is the study of organisms and viruses too small to be seen by the unaided eye. Microbiologists study all aspects of these organisms, including what they are, their lifecycle and metabolic capacity, their distribution in nature, and their relationship to each other and to other living things. Microbial engineering uses the current understanding of these organisms to develop new species with applications in (for example) bioremediation, alternative energy production, or pharmaceutical science.