Marine Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory: Biology 332
Syllabus
Biology 332 is a 1-credit laboratory course to be taken concurrently with Biology 333.
Meeting time: M or W 1:00-4:00pm, McCormack, 1st floor, Natural History lab (Room 313)
Prerequisites: Biology 111,112, 252,290.
Corequisite: Biology 333 or permission of instructor.
Instructors: Michael Rex and Lynn Ficarra
Textbook: Sherman, IW. And V.G Sherman, The Invertebrates: Form and Function. Macmillan, London.
Contact Information:
Michael A. Rex, Professor of Biology
Office: Wheatley 3/027
Office hours: MWF 10:00 - 11:00 AM
michael.rex@umb.edu
Ph. 617 287-6678
Lynn Ficarra, Graduate Student TA
Office: Wheatley 3/92
lynn.ficarra001@umb.edu
Office hours: MWF 12:00-1:00
Course Description: This is a laboratory course that accompanies Marine Invertebrate Zoology
(BIOL333), an upper division undergraduate course. The laboratory exercises consist of observations,
microscopic examination, experiments, and dissection of common marine invertebrate animals. The
laboratory complements the lectures, and reinforces your understanding of invertebrates. You will take
detailed notes on the laboratory exercises and annotate your laboratory notebook. There are two lab
practical exams in which you are expected to identify organisms, identify larval stages, identify organs
and give their function, and to provide information on life styles, feeding and reproductive modes, and
parasitic relationships. Each lab practical exam covers half the course. Your performance on the two lab
practical exams will determine your grade. Grades are awarded competitively. The course provides
basic information on the lives of invertebrates that is crucial to understanding ecology, evolution and
environmental science.
Laboratory Schedule, Fall 2013
Date (week )
September
10
17
24
Topic
Protozoa
Porifera
Cnidaria, Ctenophora
Readings
(Sherman and Sherman)
1-42
43-58
59-91
October
1
Platyhelminthes
Lesser Protostomes & Lophophorates
93-116
8
15
22
29
Aschelminthes/Pseudocoelomates
Annelida
Lab Practical I
Mollusca
117-135
137-166
November
5
12
19
26
Arthropoda I
Arthropoda II
Echinodermata I
Echinodermata II
167-225
167-225
273-305
273-305
December
3
10
Chordata
Lab Practical II
307-327
227-272
Student Feedback/Communication
Students are expected top attend all labs and to participate. I welcome all feedback on the course. My
preferred method of communication with individual students is via email. Please send your email to
michael.rex@umb.edu. I will respond to email within two week days (Monday – Friday).
If you experience a legitimate emergency (according to my standards) that prevents you from
completing required coursework on time, I expect you to communicate with me at the earliest
reasonable opportunity. Please state the nature of the emergency, and when you expect to turn in the
coursework.
Disabilities: If you have a disability and feel you will need accommodations in order to complete
course requirements, please contact the Ross Center for Disability Services (M-1-401) at (617) 2877430.
Academic Honesty:
The course will strictly adhere to the University’s academic honesty policy. See:
http://www.umb.edu/ life_on_campus/policies/code/
Academic Honesty. It is the expressed policy of the University that every aspect of academic life—
not only formal coursework situations, but all relationships and interactions connected to the
educational process—shall be conducted in an absolutely and uncompromisingly honest manner.
The University presupposes that any submission of work for academic credit indicates that the
work is the student’s own and is in compliance with University policies. In cases where academic
dishonesty is discovered after completion of a course or degree program, sanctions may be
imposed retroactively, up to and including revocation of the degree. Any student who reasonably
believes another student has committed an act of academic dishonesty should inform the course
instructor of the alleged violation.
Honesty Violations. The University defines violations to include, but not be limited to, the
following:
1. Submitting as one’s own an author’s published or unpublished work (e.g. material from a journal,
Internet site, newspaper, encyclopedia), in whole, in part, or in paraphrase, without fully and
properly crediting the author.
2. Submitting as one’s own work or materials obtained from another student, individual, or agency
without full and proper attribution.
3. Submitting as one’s own work material that has been produced through unacknowledged or
unauthorized collaboration with others.
4. Submitting substantially the same work to more than one course without prior approval from all
instructors involved: i.e., dual or multiple submission.
5. Using any unauthorized material during an examination, such as notes, tests, calculators, cell
phones, PDAs, or other electronic or mechanical communication devices. Abuse of cellular devices
with photographic capabilities and use of devices for purposes of photographing test questions or
other notes and materials are also prohibited.
6. Obtaining answers to examination questions from another person with or without that person’s
knowledge; furnishing answers to examination questions to another student; using or distributing
unauthorized copies of or notes from an examination.
7. Submitting as one’s own an examination taken by another person; or taking an examination in
another person’s place.
8. Gaining or seeking to gain unauthorized access to, or altering or destroying the paper or
electronic files of a student, faculty member, or staff member for the purpose of gaining better
academic standing and success.
9. Failing to adhere to professional standards or ethics of a discipline and/ or violating the rules of
an agency in the course of completing field work, internship, practicum, student teaching, or
clinical placement.
10. Interfering with an instructor’s ability to evaluate accurately a student’s competence or
performance; misleading any person in connection with one’s academic work.