Course Syllabus
Course Overview
Human Anatomy and Physiology is a laboratory based science designed to prepare the student to enter the field of medicine and give an overview of the form and function of the human body. This class provides a strong foundation for students who are considering some of the following career options: Doctor, Nurse, Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy, Radiology, Medical Technician, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sales, and and many others
Even if you do not want to be in a field that directly relates to patient care, I know people who have nursing degrees and use it in the computer software industry. They work in training and developing software for medical records maintenance. It is also a great course to test yourself for college readiness.
Course Materials Students should bring the following to class each day
- •Earbuds / headphones
- •Pen / Pencil
- •Paper
- •Textbook*
A Successful Student
Human Anatomy and Physiology is a rigorous course, yet it mostly relies on the easiest of cognitive skills, repeat and recall. Repeat and recall learning simply means that the student is required to memorize information. A student capable of repeat and recall will generally pass this course.
| The average student scores well on test by staying up late and cramming the night before. The student will pass the test, but not remember anything about what they covered that chapter once they move on. |
You may ask yourself, if anatomy and physiology is based on repeat and recall, why is it considered a rigorous course? The answer to this is simple, anatomy and physiology contains a massive about of new information. In Biology I, you learned about the cell, but more than likely you also learned about the cell in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. The terms you were asked to learn were not entirely new terms. You were only required to learn basic functions of around 10-20 organelles. You were probably only expected to remember little pieces of information, such as "mitochondria is the power house of the cell." You could repeat that statement, but often failed to be able to tell the whole story, "Mitochondria are a membrane bound organelle, which function as the site of cellular respiration in some eukaryotic cells. Cellular respiration is the process that provides these cells with the majority of their ATP, which is the energy currency for the cell." The average student would study hard the night before a test and master these 10-20 terms that they are tested on.
In anatomy and physiology, we are often expected to learn 50-100 new things. You must go home and try to learn 5-10 new things each night. You can not prepare for a test by cramming the night before a test. We are also asked to use memorized information to perform critical thinking. The information learned in each module will be built upon in the next module, meaning the terms we learn in module 1 will be used throughout the course. We must remember the objectives we learn from one chapter to the next. Would you want a doctor or nurse who didn't remember basic anatomy because the only crammed the information to learn it long enough to do good on one test?
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