INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
ZOO 4125 /ZOO 5125
Course Syllabus – Fall 2012
Credit hours: 4
Prerequisite “C” grade or above in Zoo/Kin 3115 Human Systems Physiology (or equivalent); or P1 standing
Course Coordinator Dr. Brian Cherrington, Bioscience Building Room 416A, , 766-4200
Instructors: Professor Meg Flanigan Skinner, Professor Donal Skinner, Professor Michael Dillon
Office: Professor Meg Flanigan Skinner: Coe Library 510-D
Professor Skinner: Bioscience Building Room 316B
Professor Dillon: Bioscience Building Room 408
Phone/E-mail: Professor Flanigan Skinner 766-4846/
Professor Skinner: 766-4922 /
Professor Dillon: 766-5631 /
Email Policy Email should be used to set up an appointment with the instructor, or to contact the instructor in the event of an emergency. Emails will be answered within 24 hours, if at all possible. Quick questions pertaining to course material may be posed. However, questions that require a lengthy answer, or complaints and/or concerns about the course/exams, etc, must be addressed in person during Office Hours. Questions pertaining to course content should be addressed to the instructor who teaches the relevant material. Please note that emails should be written in a polite manner, using formal English. Unless otherwise invited, instructors should be addressed by their official titles (i.e. Dr. or Professor). Please do not address your instructors by their last names.
Office Hours: Dr. Flanigan Skinner: By appointment
Dr. Skinner: By appointment
Dr. Dillon: By appointment
Optional Help Sessions: Starting in the second week of classes, all instructors will also offer weekly “walk in” sessions in BS219, for any students who would like to discuss general points of confusion from the week’s lecture. This session is entirely optional and will begin in the second week of the semester. The time will be determined by a poll.
Tutor Groups: Again, this is an optional service available to students who may be forced to miss classes (athletes, etc), students who are repeating the course, and any student anxious about the material. Students may sign up on sheets outside BS219. Note: these help sessions do not replace obligatory Lab and Tutorial sessions (see details below )
Lecture Text: Cindy L. Stanfield, Principles of Human Physiology, 4th edition,
Benjamin Cummings, 2009
Laboratory/Tutorial handbook is also required. It will be available for purchase in the UW Bookstore
Course Hours
Lectures: Monday/Wednesday/Friday: CR 310, 12:00-12:50pm
Labs and Tutorials: See attached Laboratory and Tutorial Schedules.
Teaching Assistants: Brian Edwards, Diem Pham, Jeff Dunning
Course Description:
This course expands on the physiological principles founded in Human Systems Physiology 3115. Its main objective is to establish the concept that physiology is not simply a set of individual biological components and functions, but that systems work together as an integrated unit to maintain health and well-being. Examples will be taken from a variety of mammalian species. Please be aware that we will expect you to transfer and apply knowledge of the basic principles of physiology established in Human Systems Physiology 3115 (please see your “Need to Know List” in the Laboratory Manual; those topics will not be re-taught.) Please note that a brief Assessment test will be given to evaluate students’ current knowledge. This test is obligatory and will be worth up to 3% Extra Credit.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- describe the physiology of sensory perception;
- describe some higher CNS functions such as language, memory and sleep;
- describe the principles and applications of endocrinology;
- describe the basic hormonal control of growth, reproduction and metabolism ;
- describe the physiological mechanisms underlying nutrition
- describe the physiology of temperature regulation and exercise;
- apply all such knowledge to the interpretation of clinical data
eCompanion Website
On this website, you will find outlines of lecture notes that should be printed (3or 4 slides per page is best) and brought with you to lectures. Please be aware that these notes serve only as guidelines, and that attendance at lecture is necessary to receive full factual information. Study guides, interesting articles, quizzes and exam results can also be accessed here. .For help with this website, please go to http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/ctl/online_courses/student.htm
We have also made Zoo/Kin 3115 notes available on the website (for reference/revision).
WyoCast
In order to facilitate student learning, we have requested that our lectures be recorded; they will be available onWyoCast. To access these lectures, please search for “WyoCast Catalog”. Open the folder named Fall 2011, and look for Zoo 4125. You will then need to login with your UW username and password. Please note that WyoCast is unable to capture the images from most of the blackboard. If you miss a lecture, you will not be able to see what the instructor has written on the board. We intend that the WyoCast facility be used as a review/study aid only – it will not serve as an alternative to attending lectures.
Attendance:
Attendance at lectures is strongly advised and will be monitored. Should a lecture be missed, it is the responsibility of the student to establish the content and make the necessary notes. Instructors will not provide students with individual replacement lectures. As mentioned, when used by instructors, course handouts are designed to assist you by highlighting and summarizing the main points of the lectures; they are not designed to replace the students own notes. Note-taking at lectures, labs and tutorials is necessary for students to obtain the full factual content and skills necessary for exams.
Attendance at tutorials and laboratories is obligatory. Be advised that Exam performance is strongly correlated to attendance and active participation in lectures, labs and tutorials. Students who have a University-Approved Excuse, and who must miss their regularly scheduled lab or tutorial may arrange another lab/tutorial time in the same week. In the event that you cannot switch to another lab, you should arrange to review the missed material with one of the teaching assistants during the TA’s office hours.
Important note: remember that this is a 4-credit hour course; attendance at labs and tutorials is necessary to complete course requirements. If three or more laboratory/tutorial sessions are missed without a Dean’s-Approved Excuse, the student will be penalized by the loss of a full Grade.
Reading material:
Your lecture notes should be used as your most important source of information. The following textbooks are recommended for fundamental physiological information, and may be found in Coe Library if you do not own a copy:
Germann and Stanfield, Principles of Human Physiology, Pearson Pubs
Silverthorn, Human Physiology, Pearson Pubs
Ganong, Review of Medical Physiology, McGraw-Hill.
If you have a different physiological textbook, please check with Dr. Skinner that the material is covered at a sufficiently high level for this course.
Please note that as you move into senior level undergraduate classes and graduate classes, textbooks will remain useful as sources of fundamental physiological information. Textbooks are, however, approximately 5( plus) years behind current scientific research , and lecture material will often be more in-depth than that found in such textbooks. To keep up to date with ever-increasing scientific knowledge, you must become increasingly reliant on peer-reviewed scientific articles. Students wishing to obtain current and detailed information on any topic covered in this course may make use of, among others, the following journals:
Journal of Applied Physiology
American Journal of Physiology
Journal of Memory and Language
Endocrinology
Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Journal of Exercise Physiology
From time to time, your instructor may choose to assign specific readings from these (and other) journals. It is your responsibility to keep up with any such assignments.
Tutorials:
Students of Human Physiology should be able to use basic physiological facts to interpret physiological data. To aid you with the acquisition of this skill there will be a series of tutorial sessions; these sessions will encourage you to think in logical and lateral ways and will reinforce the material already obtained in lectures. Each tutorial will be based on multiple choice questions (MCQ’s) and data analysis questions (DAQ’s). Students are expected to have prepared answers to these questions before attending the tutorial, and to discuss their answers during the tutorial sessions. Exam questions will be similar to tutorial questions. As an additional study aid, examples of Past Papers are included in the tutorial manual. As you work your way through lecture topics, relevant past paper questions should also be attempted, and brought with you to tutorial for discussion. Students who do not attend tutorials, or approach them in the manner recommended (please see “What is the Purpose of Tutorials?”) are unlikely to pass the exams.
Assessment
Exam Scheduling:
The date and time of each exam is listed at the end of the semester syllabus. Students have 2 weeks from the start of the semester to point out clashes with athletic schedules or other formal University arrangements. Formal evidence of a clash (note from the Coach, Professor, etc) must be provided. Please note that no one will be allowed to take an early exam, for any reason. If this class or its exam times clash with any other commitments, you are advised to drop this class.
Exam results will be posted as soon as possible on the course web-site.
Exam Attendance:
There will be three equally-weighted in-course exams, as well as a comprehensive final. The three in-course exams are obligatory for all students. If a student submits a valid University -Approved excuse for missing a scheduled in-course exam, he/she will be allowed to take the appropriate section in the final exam (see below). Valid excuses include written verification of personal illness, death in the immediate family or an official unexpected University sporting event which clashes with an exam (for which an official note from the Coach is required). There will be no make-up exams for in-course exams missed. Important note: Be advised that students who miss an in-course exam, and who do not have a University -approved excuse, will be awarded 0% for that exam and will not be allowed to “replace” that result by taking the appropriate section in the Final exam.
YOU are responsible for bringing your student-identification card, a calculator (cell phones may not be used), bubble-sheets and #2 pencils for answering MCQs. Preprogramming of calculators is forbidden. Written answers should be legible and grammatically correct. If we cannot read your answers or make sense of them, we cannot mark them. There will be penalties for ambiguity.
Exam Questions:
Questions in examinations will be based on information provided in the lecture, labs and tutorials. The in-course exams will consist of Multiple Choice Questions (50%) and Data Analysis/Interpretation questions (50%)
Each in-course exam will have a 100-point base. Grading will be based on the following percentages (90-100% = A, 80-89% = B, 70 -79% =C, 60-69% = D, <60% =F). Each exam question will be statistically evaluated after grading. Any questions found to be inappropriate (for example, because they contain errors) will be dropped from the exam, and an appropriate adjustment will be made to grades. There will be no general curving of grades.
Overall grade will be calculated as follows:
Exam 1: 33.3%
Exam 2: 33.3%
Exam 3: 33.3%
Extra Credit (retention quiz): up to 3%
Final Examination:
The final exam will consist of three sections, each section covering the work of an in-course exam. Students with University excuses who have missed an in-course section exam will be required to answer the questions in that section of the final exam. They will have the option of answering questions relating to other the sections.
For all other students, we recommend the following:
Students whose average grade from the 3 in-course exams is “A” are exempt from the Final.
Students whose average grade is either “B” or “C” have the option of taking one or more sections of the Final.
Students whose average grade is “D” or “F” are strongly recommended to take one or more sections of the Final.
Students who are taking the Final to try to improve their grades may choose to answer the questions in one or more of the sections. Again, please note that any student who chose not to take an in-course exam but who did not have a University Approved excuse, will be awarded 0% and will not be allowed to replace that grade by taking that section in the exam.
As before, grading of each section in the Final will be based on the following percentages (90-100% = A, 80 -89% = B, 70-79% =C, 60-69 = D, <60%=F). Each exam question will be statistically evaluated after grading. As before, questions found to be inappropriate because, for example, they contain errors, will be dropped from the exam, and an appropriate adjustment will be made to grades. There will be no curving of Final Grades.
Final Grade:
Final grades will be based on the same percentages (i.e.90 – 100 % = A, 80- 89% = B etc.) Students who take the final exam or one or more sections of the final exam will have their final percentage calculated from the highest percentage they have received for each section in either the in-course exam or the final exam. The final exam is therefore an opportunity for students to improve specific as well as overall grades.
Grade Corrections:
Students not satisfied with their grade in an in-course or final exam can petition for a re-mark, within 3 days of the result being released. After a full re-mark of the paper, students can discuss their grade with Dr Skinner
Hank Gardner and Marilyn Fiske Prize: The student with the highest aggregate score from ZOO/KIN 3115 and ZOO4125 will be awarded the Hank Gardner and Marilyn Fiske Prize in Physiology ($500)
Policy on Academic Dishonesty
University Regulations (UniReg 802, Rev. 2) prohibit:
“…an act or attempt performed which misrepresents one’s involvement in an academic task in any way, or permits another student to misrepresent one’s involvement in an academic task by assisting the misrepresentation”.
Amongst other things, this means:
- When a grade is given to an individual, it is expected that the grade will reflect that individual’s knowledge or work.
- Unless specifically approved, use of notes or any other kinds of memory aids in tests and examinations is forbidden.