BIOS 240 (CRN # 40318) Principles of Animal Physiology Fall 2017 Class meetings Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 pm LC C3 Instructor: Dr. Robert Paul Malchow paulmalc@uic.edu (312) 413-1552 ; lab 4083 SEL Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30-12:30 at the Commuter Center, room 245 SCE, and Wednesdays 8:30-11 at the African American Cultural Center Library, 2nd floor Addams Hall. No appointment needed! TA: TBA Course Goal: To present students with a foundation in the basic principles of cellular and systems animal physiology. The course focuses on the mechanisms by which organisms adjust and respond to changes in their environments using external and internal cues and uses a comparative approach to understand how these challenges have been met by living organisms. The physical challenges posed on organisms by their environment, how cells and tissues work together to optimize the physiological processes that enable animals to succeed in diverse environments, and how these processes shed light on human physiological functions will be emphasized. Biological problem solving is emphasized with the goal of having students learn how to think like a physiologist. Textbook & needed material: Text: Animal Physiology, 4 th ed. Hill, Richard W., Wyse, Gordon A., & Anderson, Margaret. Sinauer Press: 2016. ISBN-10: 1605355941 (3 rd edition works too). Mastering Anatomy and Physiology by Pearson (specifically, the version associated with our UIC course!). Access to the Mastering Anatomy & Physiology will be through a link on Blackboard. Students Must purchase access to Mastering through our Blackboard link you cannot purchase the correct version at masteringbiology.com, mastering Anatomy & Physiology.com, or any other web site! - iclicker, available at the UIC Bookstore. Register your iclicker through the course Blackboard web site (more below). - Access to Packback, purchased separately, $18 Supplementary materials: Will be put on the Bios 240 Blackboard website. Course Format: Much of this course will be presented in a flipped format, an instructional arrangement where students will be expected to view video materials and read selections from the book prior to class. During class time, students will engage in interactive exercises such as answering iclicker questions, drawing graphs and answering problem sets under the guidance of the instructor.
Lecture Capture (Echo 360): A video/audio lecture capture system to capture instructor presentations and make them available to students will be used; this will be available via Blackboard. Grading: There will be 1000 points total available in the course. 600 of these points will come from exams. 300 points will be associated with Mastering Anatomy & Physiology responses and associated separate worksheets. 50 points will be associated with the use of Packback, and 50 points will be associated with iclicker responses in class. Grading scale: 900-1000 A 800-899 B 700-799 C 600-699 D 0-599 F Grades for exams and clicker points will be posted on the UIC Blackboard course site. Mastering Anatomy & Physiology will have its own grade book. Make sure to check the accuracy of your grades in the grade book on a regular basis. The point levels above are guarantees - for example, if a student earns 900 points, they are guaranteed an A. The grading scale will never be raised. However, at the end of the semester, it may be lowered a bit. Please don't pester the instructor too much about this - I won't know if the scale will move or not until after the final exam is graded at the end of the semester I don t expect it to change at all! Exams: Each examination is comprised of a mixture of multiple choice and short answer/draw the graph questions and is worth a total of 150 points. There are a total of 5 exams 4 during the course, and the final exam. If one of the 4 initial exams is not taken, the score for that exam will be counted as a zero. In calculating grades, the score for the exams taken in class that has the lowest score will be dropped. This policy is in place to allow students who must miss one exam due to circumstances beyond their control (for example, illness or an accident) to do so without penalty - the score for that exam will be dropped. To be clear, there will be NO MAKE-UP EXAMS we simply drop one of the exam scores. Students will take each exam twice. Exams will first be taken as usual, in the classroom by the student working along without the aid of any ancillary material. This will count for 80% of the 150 points for the student s exam grade. Students will then take the same exam (with the same questions) with a small group of other students, and may discuss potential answers together. Students may also consult any other ancillary materials that they chose. The exam retake will be worth a maximum of 20% of the 150 points possible for each exam. There will be a retake for the final exam as well on the day the final exam is given; the solo exam will take the first hour of the exam period, then followed directly after by a one hour retake of the final exam.
There will be a total of 600 possible points available for exams. Mastering Anatomy & Physiology exercises: There will be a number of Mastering Anatomy & Physiology exercises to perform, as well as several assignments whose point value will be added in with the Mastering Anatomy & Physiology scores. The Mastering Anatomy & Physiology assignments will be done on the Mastering Anatomy & Physiology web site. A score for each Mastering Anatomy & Physiology assignment will be given (students get two chances to answer the question correctly before it is marked as incorrect), which will be stored on the Mastering Anatomy & Physiology website and not on blackboard and will likely show a much larger total score. The Mastering Anatomy & Physiology total score, coupled with ancillary additional assignments for the semester, will be scaled down to a total score out of 300 points at the end of the semester. Mastering Anatomy & Physiology assignments will have specific due dates throughout the semester, listed on Blackboard and on the Mastering Anatomy & Physiology web site; assignments not completed by the due dates can still be submitted until the final day of class (that is, 11:59 pm on the Friday before final exam week), but students will only receive ½ credit for their responses. A number of these exercises will be reading quizzes, designed to ensure that students read the appropriate material prior to attending the class lectures on these topics. Thus, students will be expected to read some material from the textbook and answer some basic questions about the material before it is covered in depth in class. Mastering Anatomy & Physiology assignments will be structured so that students have two chances to get an answer correct during the session. IClickers: An iclicker, available at the UIC Bookstore, is required for this course. iclicker is a response system that allows you to respond to questions posed in class. Students receive participation points for using the iclicker in class. iclickers need to be registered within the first 3 (three) weeks of class. To register your iclicker, log in to Blackboard, select the Bios 240 course, and click on the link that says iclicker registration. Note: no other way of registering the iclicker will work; students MUST register it through the Blackboard website. The remote ID is the series of numbers and letters on the back of the iclicker. If you cannot read the number on the clicker, the UIC Book store has a means to determine the number. iclickers will be used every day in class, and you are responsible for bringing your remote daily. No clicker, no points if you forget your clicker, you lose that day s point. There will be points associated with using iclickers during the lectures. A total of 50 points for their use during lecture are possible. We anticipate using the clickers almost every class. Students will need to answer 75% of the clicker questions asked in class in order to receive clicker credit for the session (the actual number of clicker questions asked per session will vary from one session to another). Students will receive 1 point per class session. Whatever the number actual sessions in the class, we will normalize the number of points to 50 points when calculating grades. The score from two clicker sessions will be dropped when calculating the grades.
If a student is in class but has forgotten to bring their clicker, the student misses picking up that day s clicker point remember to bring your clicker with you. Check your clicker points on a regular basis they will be posted on the Blackboard grade book. If there seem to be problems, come to office hours to straighten them out. Clicker points must be checked on the Blackboard grade-book by the end of the third week of the semester to make sure they are being input correctly. Students failing to check their clicker grades have the potential to lose clicker points. Students may only use one clicker in class (their own) please do not bring clickers for friends who are not in the class or discussion. A student seen with multiple clickers will be asked to leave the lecture/ discussion section and may be referred to the Student Judicial Affairs Committee. Remember that you must register your iclicker through our Blackboard course site to have points automatically uploaded to the grade book. Registering over the web through the iclicker web site will NOT work. Packback: Participation is a requirement for this course, and the Packback Questions platform will be used for online discussion about class topics. Packback Questions is an online curiosity community where you can be fearlessly curious and ask BIG questions about how what we re studying relates to life and the real world. There will be a Sunday 11:59 PM deadline for Packback submissions each week. Each week, you should ask at least one question and provide comments and input on two different questions. 50 points are associated with Packback participation. In addition, if the questions asked and answers posted are rated of the highest quality by the PackBack algorithm, students will receive an additional 15 extra credit points. This is the ONLY extra credit permissible and possible in the course! Counting up the points: Do NOT rely on Blackboard to give an accurate total for the sum of all your points. As noted above, we drop one exam and two clicker sessions. Blackboard does not consider these drops when it calculates the scores. Thus, the column of Total Points in Blackboard will Never give a correct account of what your final points for the course will be! Policy for Missed or Late Work not in Mastering Anatomy & Physiology & Packback: Unless prior arrangements have been made with the instructor, assignments handed in past a due date will receive 50% credit if submitted up to one week late. DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION The University of Illinois at Chicago is committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment so that students with disabilities can fully access programs, courses, services, and activities at UIC. Students with disabilities who require accommodations for access to and/or participation in this course are welcome, but must be registered with the Disability Resource Center (DRC). You may contact DRC at 312-413-2183 (v) or 773-649-4535 (VP/Relay) and consult the following: http://drc.uic.edu/guide-to-accommodations.
Academic Dishonesty Policy: Any student caught copying others' work on an assignment or exam or cheating in any other way will receive a zero for that assignment or exam and will be referred to the Student Judicial Affairs Committee, the Department Chair and/or Dean. RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS Students who wish to observe their religious holidays shall notify the faculty member by the tenth day of the semester of the date when they will be absent unless the religious holiday is observed on or before the tenth day of the semester. In such cases, the student shall notify the faculty member at least five days in advance of the date when he/she will be absent. The faculty member shall make every reasonable effort to honor the request, not penalize the student for missing the class, and if an examination or project is due during the absence, give the student an exam or assignment equivalent to the one completed by those students in attendance. If the student feels aggrieved, he/she may request remedy through the campus grievance procedure. http://oae.uic.edu/docs/religiousholidaysfy20152017.pdf GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES UIC is committed to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity involving students and employees. Freedom from discrimination is a foundation for all decision making at UIC. Students are encouraged to study the University's Nondiscrimination Statement. Students are also urged to read the document Public Formal Grievance Procedures. Information on these policies and procedures is available on the University web pages of the Office of Access and Equity: http://oae.uic.edu/. COURSE EVALUATIONS: Because student ratings of instructors and courses provide very important feedback to instructors and are also used by administrators in evaluating instructors, it is extremely important for students to complete confidential course evaluations online known as the Campus Program for Student Evaluation of Teaching evaluation. You will receive an email from the Office of Faculty Affairs inviting you to complete your course evaluations and will receive an email confirmation when you have completed each one. For more information, please refer to the UIC Course Evaluation Handbook: https://faculty.uic.edu/course-evaluations/ Note: We reserve the right to make changes on this syllabus. Any changes will be announced in lecture and/or posted on Blackboard. Please check Blackboard often.
Date Speaker and Topic Animal Physiology by Hill chapters Aug 29 Malchow Introduction to Course & 1, 2 Physiological Principles & Enzymes Aug 31 Malchow Enzymes and metabolic control Sept 5 Malchow Water & salt regulation I 5, 27, 28, 29 Sept 7 Malchow Water & salt regulation II Sept 12 Malchow Digestion/Nutrient Uptake I 6, 7, 8 Sept 14 Malchow Digestion/Nutrient Uptake II Sept 19 Exam 1 Solo Sept 21 Exam 1 Retake Sept 26 Malchow Membrane transport, Nernst 12 Potentials Sept 28 Malchow Transmembrane Voltages Oct 3 Malchow Transmembrane Voltages & Action Potentials Oct 5 Malchow Synaptic Transmission 13 Oct 10 Malchow Sensation 14 Oct 12 Exam 2 solo Oct 17 Exam 2 retake Oct 19 Malchow Respiration 22, 23, 24 Oct 24 Malchow Respiration Oct 26 Malchow Regulation of ph 26 Oct 31 Malchow Regulation of ph Nov 2 Malchow Muscle & Movement 19, 20, 21 Nov 7 Malchow Muscle & Movement Nov 9 Exam 3 solo Nov 14 Exam 3 retake Nov 16 Malchow Cardiac Physiology 20 Nov 21 Malchow Circulation 25 Nov 23 Thanksgiving (no class) Nov 2228 Malchow Thermoregulation I 10 Nov 30 Dec 5 Malchow Thermoregulation II Malchow Open Topics Dec 7 Exam 4 Solo (retake done on your own, handed in prior to final exam) TBA FINAL EXAM