Departmental Syllabus General Biology II and General Biology II Lab: BIOL1307/1107 The current delivery of BIOL1307/1107 consists of face to face lecture and laboratory sections. The classes are co‐requisites and are taken the same semester. The lecture is presented in 3 ‐ 50min sessions or 2 ‐ 75min sessions per week. Lab is 1 ‐ 3hour session per week. Course Description BIOL 1307/1107 General Biology II lecture and lab is an introduction to the biological sciences, with emphasis on the biology of organisms, their evolution, and the environment. It is the second of the two semester freshman biology sequence for Biology majors and minors, and all disciplines that require the majors Biology sequence. Laboratory methods for the study of the structure, function, and the environment of organisms are pursued in the lab. Course Prerequisites Successful completion of BIOL1306/1106 with a C or better. No remedial English or Math courses. Overview of the Course Purpose: Biology is the study of life. This course is a basic study of the diversity across all living things. You will be able to recognize structure and function within the natural world. You will be better able to understand yourself and the natural world. We will examine many of the differences among organisms that guide current issues in medicine, health, heredity and the environment. Outcomes/Objectives: By the end of the course students will: 1) Understand the broad diversity of organisms: especially how structure and function adapt each organism to a habitat such that individuals of a population survive, grow, and leave viable offspring. 2) Learn the natural histories of representative phyla; e.g., how individuals of a species make their living. 3) Understand behaviors and ecology at species, community and ecosystem levels. 4) Understand the biology of the human species and man’s impact on the biosphere. 5) Develop critical thinking skills by being able to apply scientific method in experimental design, interpretation of data, problem solving. 6) Demonstrate communication, empirical and quantitative skills in written and visual presentation of experiments, data presentation in tables and graphs, and results explanation. 7) Foster teamwork in collaboration with group work in inquiry experiments, observations and presentations. Learning Resources: Lecture: Reece, Campbell Biology, 9ed. Pearson – Benjamin Cummings Lab: Morgan & Carter, Investigating Biology: Laboratory Manual, 7th edition, Pearson – Benjamin Cummings 2
Schedule ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Lecture Lecture Lab Lab Topics Reading in Text Topics Activity in Text ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Diversity & Classification p534 ‐ 555 Biological Diversity Prokaryotes p556‐574 Bacteriology p317‐350 Protists/Fungi p575‐599, 636‐653 Protists & Fungi p351‐388 Plant p600‐635 Plants p389‐442 Animal p654‐735 Animal Diversity p461‐518 Form and Function Plant p736‐849 Plant Growth p519‐572 Animal p850‐1141 Vertebrate Anatomy p573‐644 Animal Behavior p677‐698 Ecology p699‐738 Ecology p1142‐1263 Course Assessment Grading: Every student will receive separate grades for the lecture and lab parts of the course. The lecture grade will be worth 3 semester credit hours, the lab 1 sch. Lecture: The lecture grade will come from the following: Exams, quizzes, homework. Exams: The exams cover all relevant material not specifically excluded from consideration. The format will be mixed, varying somewhat from exam to exam depending on what seems appropriate, with multiple choice with some matching, interpreting, labeling diagrams, and short answer. There will a final exam at the end of the course. Quizzes: Short quizzes over smaller amounts of material will be administered throughout the semester. Homework: Homework will be assigned with the different topics covered in the lecture. Lab: The lab grade will come from the following: Worksheets, quizzes, practicums, and a lab report Worksheets: The worksheet covers the topic, information and experiments of the lab that week. Some worksheets may include a write‐up of the lab data. Quizzes: Approximately 60% of the quiz will cover material from the previous lab and 40% will cover the upcoming lab. Questions on the upcoming lab should cover broad concepts so that reading over the lab objectives and introduction prior to class should be sufficient. Practicums: Three practicums will be administered in the semester which will have specimen, slides and diagrams with short answer responses required. 3
Lab report: Once in the semester a formal lab report is due. The data generated in class will be presented in a format following scientific writing. The report must be word processed or typewritten. The individual student must independently write the lab report. CATME Teamwork assessment: Students work in groups within the laboratory with shared responsibility to complete observations and experimental design and execution. Laboratory scientific inquiry will be a group experience both in collecting and interpretation of data. Students will evaluate their own contributions to the group and the contributions of the other members of the group using the online Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) tool developed at Purdue University. Group member effectiveness will be graded using the numerical scores reported by CATME tool. Grading scheme: The laboratory grade is based on the graded lab assignments you will hand in from each weekly lab, the lab quizzes, and the lab report, and attendance. The breakdowns by percentage of the grades are: Weekly lab assignments 50 % 1 drop Lab Quizzes/ 10 % 2 lowest replaced by notebook checks Practicums 15% no drop Lab Report 20% no drop CATME Teamwork assessment 5% no drop The actual “lab experience” is regarded as a highly important part of the course, thus attendance allows you to receive a worksheet grade. Attendance is taken in lab on a sign‐in sheet. It is your responsibility to make sure that you sign. You must stay in lab until all activities, experiments and data have been collected. You are responsible for all the data generated in the lab regardless of which group did the specific experiment. If you must miss your scheduled lab in the event of an emergency or a university excused absence, you may make it up by attending another scheduled section that week with the permission of the instructor. You are not allowed to make up a lab after the last lab of the week. The lab room is converted to set up for another lab. If you miss a lab for the week, you may not turn in your weekly lab worksheet because you did not do the lab; so attendance affects the 50% component of your grade from weekly lab worksheet. Lab worksheets are accepted late (penalty ‐30) In the event of a university excused absence extending through the week the worksheet is due there is no penalty. In the event of emergencies, lab worksheet may be turned into the instructor’s mailbox through the end of the week the assignment is due. Arrangements to make up university excused absences must be made within one week of return to lab. Disability Accommodations – To request academic accommodations for a disability, contact Leticia Madrid, Director of the PASS Office in the Mesa Building Room 1160, 432‐552‐2631, madrid_l@utpb.edu . Students are required to provide documentation of disability to the PASS Office prior to receiving accommodations. The PASS Office refers some types of accommodation requests to the University Counseling Center which provides diagnostic testing for learning and psychological disabilities. For information about testing contact Suzanne Rathbun, Director of the University Counseling Center, 432‐552‐2365, rathbun_s@utpb.edu . Acceptable Student Behavior: Classroom behavior should not interfere with the instructor’s ability to conduct the class or the ability of other students to learn from the instructional program (Code of 4
Student Life). Unacceptable or disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. Students engaging in unacceptable behavior may be instructed to leave the classroom. Inappropriate behavior may result in disciplinary action or referral to the University’s Behavioral Intervention Team. This prohibition applies to all instructional forums, including electronic, classroom, labs, discussion groups, field trips, etc.