Southeastern Community College                                                                                    BIO 177 Human Anatomy
Syllabus and Course Outline 6/04/07

Summer, 2007                                                                                                                                      
Lecture: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m., M, W, R, Rm. 511 Bowles Hall                                                                        
Lab #1: 10:10 - 12:10 p.m., M,W, Rm. 505 Bowles Hall                                                                           
Lab #2: 10:10 - 12:10 p.m., T, R, Rm. 505 Bowles Hall

Instructor: J. Michael Sallee

866-722-4692 ext. 1991 

jmsallee@scciowa.edu

Rm. 507, Bowles Hall

Course Description:
This course is designed to be a systems approach to the study of the human body. The course covers cells, histology and various organ systems of the human body, e.g., nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, reproductive system.  Lab covers cells, tissues, bones, muscles, and other organ systems and includes dissection of selected organisms.  An introduction to the function of each system is also included. This course is designed for students who will be entering the health care professions, particularly nursing.

Required Texts and Materials:                                                                                                                                     

Human Anatomy, 1st Ed., by McKinley & O’Loughlin.  McGraw-Hill. 2006. ISBN 0-07-319169-8.      

Human Anatomy  Laboratory Manual with cat dissections, 5th ed., by Elaine M. Marieb.  Pearson Benjamin Cummings. 2008.  ISBN 0-8053-3856-X

Latex gloves – student’s choice – for dissections.

Course Objectives:                                                                                                                                                 

1. To identify the significant concepts concerning the basic anatomy and structure of the human body.

2. To prepare the student adequately for continued study for an occupation in the medical field or advanced biological sciences.

3. To aid the student in becoming knowledgeable about cell structure and function, histology, the various organ systems, and some diseases and disorders related to human anatomy.

Class Attendance:
It is expected that each student will be responsible in attending class lecture sessions. Due to the great amount of subject matter normally covered in a given class session, the student who does not attend class faithfully will be at a great disadvantage.

A laboratory session will usually involve the use of normal skills along with visual perception of results obtained from experimentation, microscopic viewing and dissection. It is therefore expected that the student’s participation be 100%.

Evaluation:
Each student will be assigned a letter grade consistent with their combined success on major exams, lecture and laboratory quizzes, and class hand-ins. There will often be points awarded for various activities for which the student must be present. Students who miss class, or are tardy, or leave early will miss those points. The final course grade assigned to each student will be based on the total number of points accumulated during the semester according to the following scale:

A 90 - 100%

B 80 - 89.9%

C 70 - 79.9%

D 55 - 69.9%

F 0 - 54.9%

Each student will be allowed to drop one test score and one hand-in score or quiz score prior to the Final Exam. Class assignments that are late will receive a zero grade. A Comprehensive Final Exam and a Comprehensive Lab Final Exam will be required of all students. The instructor reserves the right to modify evaluation procedures for students who experience extensive medical problems but advance notice is required unless the student is incapacitated. Students hoping for consideration of make-up work must speak with the instructor in advance or leave their name and excuse on the telephone answering machine in advance at the number listed previously.

SCC Board Policy #523: Code of Academic Conduct.

 

Academic honesty is a fundamental attribute of higher learning.  Evaluation of each student’s level of knowledge and understanding is a vital part of the teaching process, and it requires a variety of methods of assessment.  Any act that interferes with the process of evaluation by misrepresenting the relationship between the work being evaluated and the student’s actual state of knowledge is an act of academic dishonesty.  These acts of dishonesty include, but are not limited to:

 

  1. Fraud:  Acts of dishonesty, which include falsification of documents, fabrication of data and altering solutions to be resubmitted for a grade.
  2. Cheating:  Any deceptive act that involves the submission of academic work purported to be one’s own when in fact the work was obtained from someone else.  These acts may include copying or attempting to copy from another person’s test or assignment, allowing someone else to copy from a test and/or assignment, attempting to use unauthorized aids to complete an assignment, and multiple submission of the same work to be graded as different assignments.
  3. Plagiarism:  Misrepresenting someone else’s words, ideas, or data as one’s own original work.  Students may avoid plagiarism by fully and consistently crediting the person or person’s responsible for the original work, including paraphrasing.
  4. Forgery:  Any attempt to misrepresent another person’s signature, initials, computer login, or other identifying mark.
  5. Facilitating Dishonesty:  Actions that assist another person in committing a dishonest act.

 

SCC Administrative Guideline #101 will be used to deal with violations in the Code of Academic conduct.

Tentative Class Assignment Schedule

There may be adjustments to this schedule, but these will be announced in class.

M: 6/04   - Ch. 1: A First Look at Anatomy; Ch. 2: The Cell 

M/T:       - Labs 1, 3, & 4

                W:           - Finish Ch. 2; Ch. 4: Tissue Level of Organization

W/R:       - Labs 5, 6, & 7

R:            - Finish Ch. 4; Ch. 5: Integumentary System

 

                M: 6/11   - Finish Ch. 5; Ch. 6: Cartlilage and Bone

M/T:       - Labs 8, & 9

W:           - Ch's. 1, 2, 4, & 5 Exam; Ch. 7: Axial Skeleton

W/R:       - Labs 10 & 11

R:            - Ch. 8: Appendicular Skeleton                         

 

M: 6/18   - Ch. 9: Articulations

M/T:       - Lab 12 & Activity 9 of Lab 14

W:           - Ch's. 6, 7, 8 & 9 Exam; Ch. 10: Muscle Tissue and Organization

M/R:       - Labs 13, Lab 14 Activities 1-5-6-10-12

R:            - Ch. 10: Actions of Skeletal Muscles; Ch. 11 Axial Muscles 

 

M: 6/25   - Ch. 11: Muscles of the Neck; Ch. 12: Appendicular Muscles

M/T:       - Finish Lab 14

W:           - Ch. 13: Surface Anatomy; Ch. 21: Blood

W/R:       - Labs 23 & 24

R:            - Ch's. 10, 11, 12, & 13 Exam; Ch. 22: Heart       

 

M: 7/2     - Ch. 23: Vessels and Circulation; Ch. 24: Lymphatic System

M/T:       - Labs 25 & 26

               W:            - Independence Day Holiday – not in session

R:            - Ch. 25 Respiratory System; Ch. 26 Digestive System

 

M: 7/9     - Finish 26; Ch. 14: Nervous Tissue

M/T:       - Lab 27

W:           - Ch's. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, & 26 Exam; Ch. 15: Brain

W/R:       - Labs 15, 16, & 17

                R:            - Ch. 15: Brainstem; Ch. 16: Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves                           

 

M: 7/16   - Ch. 17: Pathways & Integrative Functions; Ch. 18: Autonomic N. S.

M/T:       - Labs 18 & 19

W:           - Ch. 19: Senses: General and Special; Ch: 20 Endocrine System

W/R:       - Labs 20 & 21

                R:             - Ch. 14-20 Exam; Ch. 27: Urinary System 

 

M: 7/23   - Ch. 28: Reproductive System; Ch. 3: Embryology  

M/T:       - Labs 28, 29 & 30

W:           - Comprehensive Lab Practical Exam

                R:            - Comprehensive Final Exam

M: 7/30   - Contingency Day                             

 

 

 

Administrative Guideline #101

The primary responsibility for managing the classroom environment rests with the faculty.  SCC strongly urges that syllabi contain the instructor’s policies on plagiarism, fraud, cheating, forgery, and other acts of dishonesty.  If the student and faculty member fail to resolve the issue, the steps below will be followed:

 

  1. The faculty member in whose class the offense occurs, informs his/her division dean. 
  2. The dean and faculty member agree on the severity of the infraction and prepare a written report signed by both.  A master file of student academic misconduct will be kept in the office of the dean.
  3. The faculty member may then recommend one of the following discipline choices:

a. The student will be given a failing grade for the assignment

b. The student will be given a failing grade for the course

4.    If the faculty member feels the offense warrants further discipline, the Vice President of Educational Services will be consulted.  The result of this action could be either possible dismissal from a program of study, or dismissal from SCC.  A record of the action taken will be added to the student’s file.

 

It is the policy of Southeastern Community College to create an atmosphere of academic rigor, free from acts of dishonesty.  The process governing discipline, grievances and complaints, appeals and remedies are outlined in Administrative Guideline #101 and the college’s Judicial Code.