This laboratory course accompanies BIOL 2320 (Anatomy lecture) and is designed to reinforce material learned in lecture. You are expected to learn anatomical relationships and identify structures using figures, models, microscope slides, cadaver observation, and other materials. These resources will allow you to view structures and relationships in several dimensions. These same resources will be used for laboratory exams, so please be sure to observe assigned structures on all available resources.

Lab manual: BIOL 2325/Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual, Mary Jo Tufte, Hayden McNeil Publishing, 2024. The Print edition ISBN is: 978-1-5339-3634-9 and must be purchased at the SUU bookstore.

Learning Outcomes

GOAL 1: Gain Factual Knowledge (terminology, classifications, and trends) in beginning human anatomy. Students will develop an understanding of the relation between structure and function in organismal vertebrate biology. These principles will be applied to an understanding of the systems of the human body.

GOAL 2: Learn fundamental principles and theories important to beginning human anatomy. This course will provide introductory level learning opportunities for students interested in pre-professional and health science programs, basic information necessary for those students interested in teaching at the pre-college level, basic information important for informed decision making as a citizen and/or employee in biologically related programs that impact human health and human biology.

GOAL 3: Apply course material (critical thinking and problem solving), in the study of human form/function. Students will gain proficiency in the analysis and interpretation of two and three-dimensional images of the human body from various planes of view. Skills include regional and structural identification, comparison, and interpretation using prosected cadavers and sectioned images/models. Students will be able to interpret variable or anomalous structural patterns. Since these patterns are quite common, analytical skills must include an awareness of the degree of variation in human morphology and its relevance to understanding human structure and function.

Assessments/ Grading

• Lab Participation: (10 @ 10 pts. ea.): 100 pts.- Attending lab and contributing to activity ensures participation
• Pre-lab Assignment: (12 @ 5 pts ea.): 60 pts.- These are found in your lab manual. These should be completed by hand and turned in person at the start of each lab period. If you are missing the lab, it assumed you have already communicated with your professor and have coordinated when to turn this assignment in.
• Pre-lab Quizzes: (7 @ 35 pts ea.): 245 pts.- These will be done in person. Use of models, images or verbal questions could all be seen in a pre-lab quiz. The content will always be covering previous weeks material, so you have a week to study and prep. An outline for the quiz will be given. Closed note.
• Post-lab Checkout: (9 @ 5 pts ea.): These are extra credit points. The extra credit may only be applied to pre-lab quizzes. This is a closed note short check designed to make sure you utilized your lab time properly and help guide you for potential questions on the next weeks pre-lab quiz. You may not leave the lab for the day until completing this checkout. IF YOU DON’T complete it, you will also lose your participation points. It will only help you so take it seriously.
• Practical Exams: (2 @ 100 pts ea.): 200 pts.- These are taken in person during lab time. You will need a pencil. More details as they approach in the semester.

For lab 10 you will be asked to turn in the lab activity via canvas. This will count as pre lab quiz: 35pts.

Supplemental Materials:

• In your lab manual there are post lab pages. These are not graded but why not test yourself but completing them. These are different from my post-lab checkouts, but I may grab a question or two from there so be sure to take a look. These could also be seen on lecture or practical exams. Anytime you are given written questions, practice, practice, practice.
• On canvas, I will provide extra material for each lab. This material is meant to give you different imagery outside from textbook and lab manual to help further concrete your knowledge of terms and structures. This work is optional. HOWEVER, if you complete it all before the practical that lab falls under, you will receive 10 bonus points on the practical exam. No partial credit given.

Tentative Lab Schedule

Policies on Late Assignments and Lab Absences

• Late policy: All quizzes and other assignments are due by the due date indicated on the assignment. If you require an extension past the due date, please contact me via Canvas messages or e-mail. I will not accept assignments past the due date (except for extenuating circumstances, such as hospitalization or other documented reasons evaluated by me on a case-by-case basis).
• If you absolutely must miss lab, you are responsible for contacting me ASAP and before the missed lab. You may only make up a missed lab activity by attending another BIOL 2325 lab section during the week and taking the pre-lab quiz in my office before the next lab period. If you do not contact me and make up the lab by attending another section, you will not receive participation points, turn in pre-lab assignment, or be able to make up the pre-lab quiz/ post-lab check. Accommodations for extenuating circumstances, such as hospitalization or other valid, documented reasons, will be evaluated by me on a case-by-case basis.
• There are no practical make ups. If a situation arises where you need to miss your practical, it needs to be addressed well before the missed practical and can only be made up in one of my other sections. If you’re in my last section of the week (Thursday), don’t tell me your missing on Wednesday because your chances of make-up have passed. That being said, a make-up practical is not always guaranteed and will be granted by case by case so do your best to be there on your lab day.
• Lab floating between my lab sections is allowed unless there are no open seats. You can visit other lab sections to help review but you will need to contact and ask permission. Permission may not always be granted, and you may be asked to leave if you show up unannounced.

Attendance Policy

Class Attendance is mandatory: You are expected to attend all labs. Excessive absences WILL lower your grade. There will be significant out of class time needed to master this course’s essential material.

2 or more unexcused labs will result in an automatic F for this course.

Instructor Information

Professor: Dr. Gina Profetto, ginaprofetto@suu.edu
Office: Science Center (SC) Room 115
Office Hours: M:10-3pm W:8-10am, 12:30-1:30am F:8-11am
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