MCDB 1B Lecture Syllabus Summer Session B, 2021 Instructor: Dr. Seng Hui Low Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Wed 12:30 – 2:00 pm or by appointment. TA: Liam Adsit Email:
[email protected] Office Hours: Thur 6 pm or by appointment. The academic coordinator for this course is Alice Nguyen (
[email protected]). Dr. Nguyen is responsible for handling all administrative matters pertaining to MCDB 1B and 1BZ, like enrollment, adding or dropping the class and extension students. Please email her to make an appointment. The program director is Catherine Drake (
[email protected]). She is responsible for missed exams, incomplete work, grading and exam scores pertaining to MCDB 1B and 1BZ. Please email her to make an appointment. Lectures by Gauchocast All the lectures will be pre-recorded and posted on Gauchocast Exams Exams will be online via Gauchospace at the appointed time and day. Midterm = Monday August 23 (100 Points) 12.30 to 1.30 pm Final = Friday Sept 10 (100 Points) NOT CUMULATIVE 4:00 to 5:00 pm If there are any schedule conflicts with these exam dates, you must contact Catherine Drake within the first week of class. Rescheduling of exams after this time will not occur. If you miss an exam due to illness or emergency, contact Catherine within 24 hours. Makeup exams are permitted only if you can provide written verification of the illness or emergency. DSP students please submit your requests within the first week of class. No early finals will be given under any circumstances – no exceptions. MCDB 1B Text book and study resources: The text is Campbell Biology by Urry, Cain, Wasserman, Minorsky, and Reece (11th Edition) available at the bookstore and is on reserve in the Davidson Library. The course website: can be accessed at http://gauchospace.ucsb.edu/courses/. The website will contain pdfs of the slides presented in lecture. In addition, it will have links to the weekly quizzes, past-year exams and other information that will help you study the material presented in lectures. To access the website, login using your UCSB net id. As long as you are registered, you will have access. Holidays: Sep. 6 is a University Holiday and there is no lecture on that day. Grades Your grade will largely be determined by your performance on exams. However, there will also be an opportunity for you to earn points by taking online quizzes. Please review all of your grades when they are posted. Any concerns that may lead to a grade change must be broached with administration within 7 calendar days. No grade changes will be made after 7 days unless extenuating circumstances arise. Although earning 90% of the total points will guarantee you an A, 80% a B, etc., the final grade scale is generally adjusted to the average performance of the class and will be determined by the instructors at the end of the course. The median grade in this class is typically a “C.” Online Quizzes The online quizzes are intended to help you identify key ideas/facts that were presented in lecture, and, at the same time, give you the opportunity to earn a few extra points. The essential features of these quizzes are: 1. There will be 9 quizzes, but each quiz is only available for one week. 2. In order to see the quiz after it closes, you must take it during the time it was originally offered. For example if you wanted to review quiz 5 right before the final exam, you can do that if you took the quiz when it was open (see "To Review the Quizzes" below). If you did not take the quiz, you may not be able to see it after it closes! 3. The maximum number of points you can earn is 10 points for each quiz. 4. You may take the quiz up to 2 times for credit (while it is open) and we will use your highest score to determine the amount of extra credit you earned. 5. The lowest quiz score will be dropped so everyone can earn a maximum of 80 points. MCDB 1B Tentative Lecture Schedule, Summer 2021 All assigned readings are from our text: Campbell Biology by Urry, Cain, Wasserman, Minorsky, and Reece (11th Edition) Week 1 2-Aug 3-Aug 4-Aug Course Introduction / Animal Hormones Animal Hormones Continued Animal Nutrition Animal Nutrition Continued Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Chapter 41 Chapter 41 Week 2 9-Aug 10-Aug 11-Aug Immune system Immune system Continued Neurons and synapses Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Chapter 48 Week 3 16-Aug 17-Aug 18-Aug Neurons and synapses continued Sensory Systems Effectors (Muscle) Chapter 48 Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Week 4 23-Aug 24-Aug 25-Aug Exam I (Covers Material through Aug 18) Circulatory System Gas exchange Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Week 5 30-Aug 31-Aug 1- Sep Osmoregulation and excretion Plant Architecture Transport in plants Chapter 44 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Week 6 6-Sep 7-Sep 8-Sep 10-Sep Labor Day (No Class) Photosynthesis Photosynthesis continued Final (Covers material not tested in MT 1) Chapter 10 Chapter 10 4 to 5 pm
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