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Human Anatomy and Physiology Bristol Community College, Fall 2004 Professor: Larry M. Frolich, Ph.D. Description: Biology 33, Anatomy and Physiology : Study of the structure and function of human tissues, organs and organ systems. Topics: introduction; tissues; integumentary, skeletal, muscular systems and the nervous system. Laboratory includes occasional dissections. The course is intended primarily for students in the health sciences. Prerequisites: High school biology and chemistry, preferably within the last five years. This class is designed to familiarize the student with the structures of the human body, the language used to describe it, and the way it works, using human skeletal material and dissection of fetal pigs as a guide to the anatomy and interactive physiology labs to help understand how the anatomy functions in a living person. The information presented is considered a fundamental base, as well as a language, that is universal to the biomedical sciences. Anatomy and Physiology is a 15-week course that meets for three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory. However, expect to spend at least ten hours per week outside of class studying if you expect to pass, more if you hope to excel. You must pass both the laboratory and lecture parts of this course in order to receive a passing grade for the semester. Lecture Text: Marieb, E.N. (2000) Human Anatomy and Physiology, 5TH edition, Benjamin/Cummings Anatomy and Physiology as a Language: In many ways, this course involves learning a new language. To learn a new language, it is essential to have direct experience with the objects or material being described—in this case the human skeleton and fetal pig—and to find ways to ingrain the words involved. It is best to hear the terms, write them down, touch the structures while dissecting, draw the structures, label them, write their definitions, say them out loud and then repeat it all over again. This can get to be a boring and r