Microbiology literacy is essential for any world citizen, considering the major impacts that microorganisms have on our daily lives and health. Consequently, we have created a complete microbiology course available to the non-microbiology students at our university. This course, entitled "Microbes and You" is fully accessible online (in French only) and helps students advance their knowledge of microorganisms in a fun way. Before the course, most students are only aware of the negative role of microorganisms on our health, and this course teaches them that our relationship with microbes is more complex and possesses many advantages. In this article, we share our experience and the extremely positive response of the students. We hope to encourage other microbiologists to set up basic courses in microbiology for non-scientists, or scientists without basic knowledge in this science.

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“微生物与您”课程：解决社会对微生物学素养的迫切需求的具体例子†

考虑到微生物对我们日常生活和健康的重大影响，微生物学知识对任何世界公民都是至关重要的。因此，我们创建了完整的微生物课程，可供我们大学的非微生物学学生使用。该课程名为“微生物与您”，可以在线完全访问（仅法语），并以有趣的方式帮助学生提高对微生物的了解。在学习本课程之前，大多数学生仅了解微生物对我们健康的消极作用，并且本课程告诉他们我们与微生物的关系更加复杂并且具有许多优势。在本文中，我们分享了我们的经验以及学生们非常积极的回应。我们希望鼓励其他微生物学家为非科学家开设微生物学基础课程，