LAB - 100% Online

INSTRUCTOR: Michael Kolitsky, Ph.D.

• Virtual Office Hours - any time via course e-mail or Blackboard Course Discussion Board
• e-mail: makolitsky@utep.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Computer simulations and laboratory exercises in human anatomy and physiology with emphasis on the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. Prerequisite: BIOL 2311 with a grade of "C" or better. BIOL 2311 may be taken concurrently with BIOL 2111.

CREDIT HOURS: 1.0

IMPORTANT DATES

Aug. 26 -	Biography & Scavenger Hunt Results Due (2% of final grade)
Sept. 13 -	Lab Report 1 due (5% of final grade)
Sept. 19 -	Lab Exam 1 (23%)
Oct. 12 -	Lab Report 2 due (5% of final grade)
Oct. 17 -	Lab Exam 2 (25% of final grade)
Dec. 1 -	Lab Reports 3 & 4 due (10% of final grade)
Dec. 5 -	Lab Exam 3 (30% of final grade)

REQUIRED TEXT

1. 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology is sold by Primal Pictures and must be purchased by using a credit card online at the student purchase page. You may want to contact your credit card company to let them know you will purchase the etext for $50.00 as Primal is located in England and some credit card companies require a notice to charge items purchased outside the U.S.  The online student purchase page contains a Promo Password that should be used to get the $50.00 purchase cost and be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of the purchase page as that is where the Promo Password input space is located. If you do not see a cost of $50.00 for a four-month subscription, get back to me.

2. PhysioEx 9.1 for A & P, Laboratory Simulations in Physiology by Zao, Stabler, Peterson & Smith, published by Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2012 for laboratory exercises.  Version 9.1 CD-ROM should come with PhysioEx 9.1 version lab manual.

COURSE GOALS

• Students will study the basic microanatomy of human cells, tissues, and organs, focusing on the linkage between structure and function.
• Students will study the gross anatomy of human skeletal, muscular and nervous systems to better understand the mechanics of human movement and function.
• Students will perform laboratory experiments to study phenomena related to human physiology and submit lab reports on their findings.

STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY

Students will be expected to complete course assignments by the deadlines indicated on the course syllabus. If a student misses a scheduled exam or a deadline for an assignment such as a lab report, only a serious personal emergency will be considered as an excuse and you must apply in writing (e-mail O.K.) to the instructor to explain why an exam or assignment was missed. If an exam or assignment deadline is missed without an instructor approved excuse, one/half credit for the missed assignment can be obtained by completing the exam or assignment within one day following the deadline. After one day has passed beyond the deadline for an exam or assignment, no credit will be able to be earned for that assignment.

The College of Science deadline for dropping this class is Oct. 28, 2016. After that date, the College of Science will not approve any course withdrawals unless a student withdraws from all courses for medical or other serious reasons.

A grade of Incomplete is only used in extraordinary circumstances confined to a limited event such as a missed exam, project, or lab.  If the student has missed a significant amount of work (e.g. multiple assignmnets or tasks), a grade of Incomplete is not appropriate or warrented.

TESTING CONDITIONS

All exams will be taken using Respondus, a video-based proctoring tool in Blackboard. You must download the Respondus software to your computer in order to take the lecture exams. You may download the Respondus software by going to http://www.respondus.com/lockdown/download.php?id=586140509. No other books, notes, other computers or anything else that can be considered as providing help in taking the lecture or lab exams should be available during testing. You should also take the exam in one sitting and not leave the room while the exam is being taken. A practice short exam using Respondus has been set up to give you some experience taking exams using the video proctoring software.

The computer you use to take lecture exams must have a video camera available. If your own computer does not have a video camera, then you should take exams in the library computer lab where there are video cameras for many computer stations.

If any assignment deadline or exam is missed without an instructor approved excuse, one/half credit for the missed assignment can be obtained by completing the assignment within one day following the deadline. After one day has passed beyond the deadline for an assignment or exam, no credit will be able to be earned for that assignment or exam.

All exams listed in the syllabus must be taken on the days indicated for full credit. You will have one day to take each lecture or lab exam. An exam will be posted in the exam folder at 12:30 AM MT on the day of the exam indicated in the syllabus and must be completed by 10 PM MT on that same days. Note that 10 PM MT corresponds to midnight ET where the instructor resides.

Check out the Discussion Board posting titled "Study Advice for Exams" for information about how best to study for lab exams.

INSTRUCTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY

To provide students with a challenging environment for learning that also encourages questioning and respects individual opinions.

SELF TESTING OPPORTUNITIES

A special effort has been made to modularize this online material with self-testing opportunities that I call Quizlets to provide you immediate feedback about your understanding of the material covered. The questions in these quizzes are designed to give you an understanding of the types of questions that you will see on the scheduled lab exams and should also provide you with feedback to let you know your level of mastery of the material covered. Data from other courses in which I have used Quizlets (see http://www.e-mentor.edu.pl/artykul/index/numer/26/id/582) has shown that students who do more Quizlets get better grades than students who do fewer or no Quizlets. The Quizlets are a type of formative assessment which means using assessment for learning. The amount of time you spend on the Quizlets is an estimate of study time and pays off in several ways. First, they are timed so they give you experience in taking timed exams and second, the quizlet questions utilize the same images you look at and study in the labs and provide you with feedback about how well you know the material. Remember, past experience has shown that students who on average do more quizlets and get good scores on these timed quizlets get better grades than students who do fewer quizlets or do not get higher scores on the practice quizlets. And, furthermore, the last five Quizlet scores have been shown to be related to how well a student will perform on the lecture exam.

The Quizlets will not be counted for a grade or points in this course but are there to assist you in your study of the lab material and to provide you with a way to get experience taking timed exams.

LAB REPORT INSTRUCTIONS

Lab reports must be submitted by the deadline indicated in the Important Dates section at the beginning of this syllabus. There will be four lab reports to be submitted to the instructor. Insert the PhysioEx 9.0 CD-ROM into your computer CD-ROM drive and wait for the icon to appear on your desktop. Click on the CD-ROM icon and in the window that appears, click on the StartHere.html file. This will take you to the opening page, then click on Access PhysioEx 9.0. Now choose the lab exercise for a particular lab from the menu list and follow the directions given in the lab instructions for each lab and for the lab report, do the Pre-lab Quiz, then the Experiment, then the Post-lab Quiz, Review Sheet and finally click on Lab Report. The Lab Report will be saved as a PDF file which you should submit to me by attaching the file to an e-mail using the Blackboard e-mail tool. Each activity will likely have its own PDF file but the Blackboard email tool permits sending of only one attached PDF files at a time so you will have to send me multiple emails for each lab assignment. If you have any questions about this, be sure to send the instructor an e-mail for clarification.

USE OF 3D Glasses

Students taking this laboratory course in Human Anatomy and Physiology will have the opportunity to study portions of the skeletal, muscular and nervous system using 3D red-blue glasses to simulate a more authentic dissection experience. Stereo images have been obtained from the Stanford University Medical School Lane Medical Library which were first used by medical students in the late 1940's and '50's with Viewmasters. Viewmasters are no longer available but permission was granted to the instructor to create anaglyph images from each stereo image pair which when viewed with red-blue glasses produces a 3D image of the cadaver dissection. Other 3D anaglyph images were also able to be produced from QuicktimeVR movies from a collection made available by the Wright State Medical School. The bookstore at UTEP has said they would have 3D red-blue glasses available for purchase or you may wish to go online to purchase your own pair. These are not the same type of 3D glasses purchased when viewing a 3D movie in a theater. And, because one must have two functional eyes to view 3D with red-blue glasses, students who may only have one eye or who may have strabismus or another eye problem leading to inability to see in 3D, all images that are in 3D are also present in non-3D mode so you can decide which route is better for you when studying the lab material. The first three labs are not in 3D and the 3D option begins with Lab 5 - The Skeletal System. I am very interested in hearing your thoughts after using red-blue glasses in the study of human anatomy so I will from time to time ask you for your opinion but please feel free to pass along to me your thoughts about the use of 3D images for the study of anatomy.

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