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Biology 3408L – Fall 2009

Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory

Alpine: WSB 109 M 1:00 – 3:00pm

Midland: FOX 116 M 1:00 – 3:00pm

Syllabus

Lab Instructor: Dr. Chris M. Ritzi – WSB 216                    Brandi Bell – AHSF 124

                           Phone: 837- 8420                                         685-6454        

                           Email: critzi@sulross.edu                            bbell@midland.edu

Office hours: MW 8:30-9:00   AM                 Tuesday and Thursday

MW 10:00-10:30 AM                          8:00 – 9:30 PM

                                                T 2:00 – 5:00 PM                     or by appt.

                                                or by appt.

Lab Website: http://bbsrsu.sulross.edu/ & http://faculty.sulross.edu/critzi/

Text:  Invertebrates.  Second Edition.  Brusca, R.C., & G. J. Brusca.

Grading: Your grade contributes up to 200 points toward your lecture grade.  Points in labs can be gained through 3 lab practical exams (50 pts each) and 7 quizzes offered throughout the semester (5 pts each - 30 pts total, after dropping the lowest quiz).  The remaining points will be allotted based on participation.  Graduate students taking the course for graduate credit will be required to prepare a presentation/demonstration for their special graduate assignment.  Addition non-credit quizzes may be offered.

Exams: There will be a total of 3 lab practicals, which will focus heavily on visual identification.  Quizzes will be administered in weekly over the previous week’s material, being either text, picture, or practical based.  If you miss an exam or quiz and have a legitimate excuse, contact me within 24 hours.  Quizzes can be made-up up to a week of the original date.  If you do not contact me within 24 hours, you will receive a zero on that exam or quiz. 

Attendance: Students missing 20% of labs (3 labs) shall be dropped from the lab per the SRSU catalog.  Any student dropped for excessive absences will receive an F for the course grade.  Please notify your instructor BEFORE missing class for authorized activities, death in the family, or illness.  Lab practicals will typically not be re-offered, with the exception of a make-up final for excused absences only.

Laboratory courtesy:  The general rules of classroom etiquette are below.

1)                  Please do not talk to others in class while the instructor is talking.  If you have a question, ASK THE INSTRUCTOR!  That’s what we’re here for.

2)                  No food, drink or tobacco in lab.  We will be handling things you might not want to get in your month.

3)                  Please turn cell phones and pagers to silent while in class.  They are disruptive to the entire class, and detract from learning.

Students with disabilities will be provided reasonable accommodations.  If you would like to request such accommodations because of physical, mental, or learning disability, please contact the ADA Coordinator for Program Accessibility at 837-8178, UC 211.

Tentative Laboratory Outline

Date                          Lecture topic                                                         Chapter

Aug 19-21                   No Laboratory                                                                       

Aug 24                                    Introduction and Porifera                                           6

Aug 31                                    Cnidera and Ctenophora                                             8 and 9

Sept 7                          Labor Day (Lab to be made up on a weekend fieldtrip later)           

Sept 14                        Platyhelminthes and Nematoda                                  10 and 12

Sept 21                        Lab Practical I

Sept 28                        Mollusca (Gastropoda & Bivalvia)                             21 part

Oct 5                           Mollusca (Polyplacophora & Cephalopoda)               21 part            

Oct 12                         Annelida, Onychophora & Others                              13, 15             

Oct 19                         Lab Practical II

Oct 26                         Chelicerata, Insecta & Myriapoda                              17, 18, 19

Nov 2                          Crustacea                                                                    16

Nov 9                          Echinodermata                                                            22       

Nov 16                                    Chordata                                                                     23

Nov 23                                    Thanksgiving Break                                                   

Nov 30                                    Lab Practical III                     

Note – This outline is subject to change for reasons of course interest, time constraint, or instructor whim.  The exams will be administered on the dates indicated, so that course flow can be maintained.  Material covered in Laboratory is designed to loosely follow that of lecture, although some differences may exist.

Lab Expectations – This is an Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory, and therefore you will be expected to do a variety of biological activities over the course of the term.  Things you will be expected to do include, but are not limited to, DISSECTION, handling of potential INFECTIOUS material, and care and handling of LIVING organisms.  These activities are a required part of the lab, with everyone expected to take part. 

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Lab Handouts and Supplements

Lab 1 - Porifera

Lab 2 - Cnidaria and Ctenphora

Lab 3 - Plathyhelminthes and Nematoda

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