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Welcome to 232!  I am so glad you are joining me! Everyone in the class should feel valued, included and welcome.  I can't wait to meet you and learn with you!!!! Here are a few pictures of me and welcome videos

Lecture & Lab Materials:

Textbooks

It is important to have a lecture text for A&P (and a lab manual is important as well), but there is not a single "required" textbook assigned to the class.  Please buy a textbook (and a lab manual if possible) because you will use it! Used and older versions are great and they are less $. Avoid "concepts of" type texts because they are usually written for 100 level courses. You will want something with descriptions and good labeled images. Below are what I recommend (they are available in the Rock Creek bookstore or online). Whatever you buy will work for all three terms of A&P and they are good to have around for your professional programs.

Optional lecture textbooks:

• "Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology," Martini, Nath & Bartholomew, 12th edition, Pearson. [This has excellent labeled images, and clear text descriptions. Older, used editions are available for much less money and are just fine too].
• " edited by Lindsay Biga for Oregon State University, OER Openstax. [Free OER resource, but does not have as many images, consider pairing this with the optional lab book below.]

Optional lab textbook:

• "Marieb Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual," Smith. 14th edition, Pearson. [Older editions are great too, and can be purchased for much less money, look for: "Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual," Marieb and Smith, Pearson.]

Attendance:

Lecture is hybrid. Please plan to watch lecture videos on your own before the in person portion of lecture meets on Tuesdays. The videos and the in person part of lecture are both important pieces to the lecture.

Lecture and Lab meet in person at RC, building 7, once per week. Can you check your schedule and make sure you can join the in person parts of both lecture and lab? Thank you!

**I will hold study Zoom sessions time TBD that are optional but highly recommended.**

Weekly Routine:

Our class is divided into weekly modules.  All lecture material is recorded and the student should watch weekly videos prior to class.  Each chapter has lecture notes to use and fill in while you watch the video.  During lecture time, we will cover content that was challenging, answer practice test questions together.  During lab time, we will go over lab material together.  We will finish the lab each week with a short, shared, collaborative discussion.  We have homework due each week on Sunday night.    

Tests/Quizzes:

There are two tests, two lab tests and a final exam. In addition, there are 5 low stakes lab quizzes given during the term.  Lab/lecture quizzes and tests are given in person. Don't worry, we will practice the type of questions on the test each week during our time together.

Optional Lab Summary: Everyone has the opportunity to learn something a little deeper in the A&P realm with this summary (3 or 4 paragraphs of research).

Participation: I will have some participation points in lecture and lab. 

I look forward to meeting you! See you in Fall!!!

Grading Criteria:

Lecture is worth 70% of the final grade and lab counts as 30% of the final grade.

Grades are assigned as follows:  90-100% A  80-89% B    70-79% C        60-69% D        <60% F

Please have access to the internet and a computer that can open Google Suite, Word and PDF (have a backup computer plan).  You will need to create documents in one of these formats. You may also need to convert images (gif, jpeg, png) to pdf files.  There are free apps to do this (I use the free Adobe to PDF converter app).