TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Prefix & Number: BIO 210
Course Title:
Anatomy and Physiology I
Class Hours
Per week: 4
Lab Hours
Per Week: 3
Credits
Awarded: 4
Catalog Description: This is the first in a sequence of courses, including an intensive
coverage of the body as an integrated whole. All body systems are studied. Topics
include terminology, biological chemistry, cells, tissues, and the following sytems:
integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and special senses. Lab requirement
supplements lectures.
Entry Level Skills: The student should have developed the reading, writing, and study
skills required to begin sophomore-level course work in biology. College-level biology
and chemistry knowledge are required. This course requires demonstrable critical
thinking skills.
Pre-requisites: BIO 101 OR BIO 100 and CHM 100. A grade of C or above must be
earned in each course used to meet this prerequisite.
Co-requisites: none
Text(s)/Required Materials: Hoehn, Katja and Marieb, Elaine N. Human Anatomy
and Physiology. 8th edition. Pearson Benjamin Cummings: San Francisco, 2010.
Marieb, Elaine N. Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual-Custom
Version. Pearson Benjamin Cummings: Boston, 2009.
MasteringA&P. Benjamin Cummings: 2011.
Major Course Topics:
Lecture Topics
The Human Body: An Orientation
Chemistry Comes Alive
Cells: The Living Units
Tissues: The Living Fabric
The Integumentary System
Bones and Bone Tissue
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Skeletal Anatomy (lab coverage and examination)
Joints (lab coverage and examination)
Muscles and Muscle Tissue
The Muscular System Anatomy (lab coverage and examination)
Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue
The Central Nervous System
The Peripheral Nervous System and the Reflex Activity
The Autonomic Nervous System
The Special Senses
Lab topics
Miscellaneous first day activities; The Language of Anatomy
Organ Systems Overview; The Microscope
The Cell--Anatomy and Division; Transport Mechanisms; PhysioEx Mitosis; Cell
Transport Exercise from PhysioEx Laboratory Simulations
Classification of Tissues; The Integumentary System; Classification of Body Membranes;
PhysioEx Histology
Overview of the Skeleton -- Classification and Structure of Bones and Cartilages;The
Axial Skeleton; PhysioEx Histology
The Appendicular Skeleton; The Fetal Skeleton; Articulations and Body Movements
Microscopic Anatomy, Organization and Classification of Skeletal Muscles; Begin
Identification of Human Muscles; PhysioEx Exercises on Muscle Physiology
Continue Identification of Human Muscles; Interactive Physiology Muscular System
Continue Id. of Human Muscles; Histology of Nervous Tissue; Interactive Physiology
Nervous System; PhysioEx Histology; Interactive Physiology of the Neuron
Gross Anatomy of the Brain and the Cranial Nerves
Spinal Cord, Spinal Nerves, and the Autonomic Nervous System; Parts of Human Reflex
Physiology
Special Senses: Vision; Special Senses: Hearing and Equilibrium; Special Senses: Taste
and Olfaction
Evaluation Criteria and Grade Calculation Method
During the course of the semester a minimum of four in-class lecture tests will be given.
Please review the makeup policy if you miss a lecture test. A final test (5th test) will be
given during the scheduled final examination period. The final test is not cumulative. In
addition, fourteen laboratory quizzes will be given usually at the rate of one each week.
Please review the makeup lab policy if you miss a lab.
Homework is an integral component of this course. Homework is offered online only
using Mastering A&P. Mastering A&P is packaged with your textbook. If you purchase a
used text, you must purchase Mastering A&P separately. The homework grade counts
10% of the final course grade. Late homework incurs a penalty which is posted online.
The average of the lecture tests and homework grades will constitute the lecture average.
The average obtained from the lab tests and other graded lab activities will constitute the
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lab average. A final test will be given during the scheduled examination period. The final
exam will count thirteen percent (13%) toward the final grade. The final average will be
determined by adding the following: sixty-five percent (65%) from the lecture test
average, 10% from the homework average, and twenty-five percent (25%) from the lab
average. A final letter grade will be assigned using a 10-point grading scale: A=90-100;
B=80-89; C=70-79; D=60-69; and, F= below 60.
In-class test average
____ x 0.65
Homework average
____ x 0.10
Lab grade
+ ____ x 0.25
Final course grade
= ____
Additional Policies
1. Tri-County Technical College Policies and Procedures (3-2-1053.1) state: “any
student who accumulates more absences during the semester than the class meets in a
two-week period OR who misses more than 10 percent of the total number of class
meetings in the summer is subject to being withdrawn from the class by the
instructor.” Laboratory courses consist of both lecture and laboratory components that
are carefully and meticulously integrated for the internalization of lecture and
laboratory learning and skills. Excessive absenteeism severely and negatively
impacts the student’s exposure to and internalization of both learning and requisite
skills. It is the policy of the science department of Tri-County Technical College that
any student who exceeds the allowable absences in lecture or laboratory, in any
semester, will be administratively withdrawn from the course if on or before the
established “Last day to withdraw” date. If the student exceeds the allowable
absences after the “Last day to withdraw” has passed, that student will be withdrawn
from the course and awarded a “WF” (withdrawn failing) regardless of the student’s
current average in the course. The student should be acutely aware that a “WF”
affects one’s GPA.
Exceeding the allowable absences in laboratory will result in the student being
withdrawn from the course according to one of two protocols: Withdrawal with a
“W” if the excessive laboratory absence occurs on or before the published last date to
withdraw or withdrawal with a “WF” if the excessive laboratory absence occurs after
the published last date to withdraw. Extenuating circumstances may be considered on
a case-by-case basis.
2. Items from lab reports in the lab manual may appear on a lecture test.
3. Lab tests are usually given at the rate of one per week on material covered during the
previous week's lab. Lab tests are usually of the practical type involving identification
of anatomical and physiological features of the system previously under study.
4. Policy on Makeup Testing You will have an opportunity to take a makeup for the
first test you miss without providing documentation as to why you missed the test.
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You must complete the makeup test within 2 weeks of the in-class test date. If you
don’t complete the makeup test within 2 weeks of the in-class test date, you will
receive a grade of 0 for the test. Unless otherwise noted, makeup tests will be given in
the Assessment Center. If you miss subsequent lecture tests, you must provide
written documentation to your lecture instructor detailing why you missed the lecture
test. You may be given a makeup exam if the instructor determines your
documentation warrants a makeup exam. Otherwise, you will receive a grade of 0 for
the test.
5. Policy on late homework You must complete your homework on time, even if you
miss a class or test. Late homework results in a grade reduction as posted in the
online homework program. If it is impossible for you to complete your homework on
time, you must provide the instructor with written documentation if you want your
instructor to consider not assessing you a late homework penalty. At the instructor's
discretion, he/she may choose to accept your late homework with no penalty.
6. The lab grade is calculated from the average of your weekly quiz grades. If you take
all 13 quizzes, then the lowest lab quiz grade will be dropped. If you miss a
laboratory quiz, you are required to schedule a makeup quiz with your lab instructor.
If you do not complete a makeup quiz, the lab grade for any missed quiz will be
recorded as a 0 and it cannot be dropped. Additionally, if you don’t make up a quiz,
your lab grade will be calculated from 13 quizzes, meaning you will not be allowed to
drop a lab quiz grade.
Prepared by the Science Department
Date revised: 2-2010
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