Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

Instructor: Jennifer Swann
Office: Iacocca Hall, Room D215
Telephone: 610-758-5484
FAX: 610-758-4004
Email: jms5@lehigh.edu

Office hours: Tuesday afternoon and by appointment

Text books:

Grades will be based on the following measures:

  • Class exams (50 points) There will be 4 in class exams (and a comprehensive final during finals week). The final is optional. If you miss an exam the final will replace the exam.
  • Practical exams (20 points) There will be 4 exams in which you are required to identify anatomical structures in the lab. Each of these is worth 5 points.
  • Lab reports (20 points) There will be 4 lab reports worth 5 points each. These reports will summarize 4 experiments that are designed and conducted by lab groups. Each lab report must include the following sections: Introduction, methods, results and discussion.
  • Group projects (10 points total)
    • Work on 4 lab projects (crime lab, special senses, immunology and digestion) will be prepared in groups and will be worth 1 point each.
    • A class debate will be held in the middle of the semester on a controversial topic (2 points).
    • Each group will design and execute a project on behavior 2 points for the presentation and 2 points for the paper.
  • Thanksgiving report This is an optional report on digestion to be done over the Thanksgiving holidays. It should be written as a lab report (hypothesis is optional and can be replaced with a scholarly description of the history of choice of traditional thanksgiving foods. Include all the foods eaten at the thanksgiving meal and estimation of their caloric content and a description of the digestive processes involved in their utilization. The discussion should include a description of how and why the foods were chosen for the holiday at your house with reference to more traditional foods described in your introduction. 
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    Course Syllabus

    Week

    Topic

     Text

     Lab Exercise

    Week One

    Introduction, Skin

    4, 1

    Crime lab

    Week Two

    Bones and joints

    5

    Experiment results, Bones and joints

    Week Three

    Muscle physiology

    6

    Practical (Mon), Muscle gross anatomy, Practical (Wed), EMG experiment

    Week Four

    Neurons

    7

    EMG experiment, Lab report due (Wed), begin sheep brain (review)

    Week Five

    Spinal cord, reflexes

    7

    Sheep brain Practical (Wednesday) Reflexes, Special senses

    Week Six

    Special senses

    8

    EEG experiment

    Week Seven

    Stem cell research debate

     

    Lab reports due, debate (Wed)

    Week Eight
    Second exam (Thurs)

    Endocrine

    9

    Endocrine project, review

    Week Nine

    Circulatory system and blood

    10 and 11

    Cow heart, circulatory anatomy, Practical (Wednesday) EKG experiment

    Week Ten

    Immune system Respiration

    12 and 13

    EKG exp. Lab report due (wed), Blood typing, HIV lab

    Week Eleven

    Digestion

    9

    Respiration experiment, Digestion anatomy and physiology

    Week Twelve

    Kidney function
    Reproduction

    12 and 14

    Respiration lab due (Mon)

    Week Thirteen

    Third exam (Tues)

    14

    Review prepare for behavioral experiments

    Week Fourteen

     

    15

    Thanksgiving report due (optional) Presentations Review

    Week Fifteen

    Behavior

    Handout

    Behavior