Histology is a survey of vertebrate (mostly human) cellular anatomy. The course meets for two hours of lecture and two 2 hour labs each week. The class is a combination of lecture, demonstration, and light microscope study of slides of vertebrate tissues. The schedule of topics covered in this survey can be found at the link above.
The texts used in this course are:
Grades in this course will be determined by two 100 point exams, five 10 point quizzes and a 50 point term paper (300 points total).
The midterm and final exam will each consist of 50 points written, and 50 points lab identifcation. Since the second half of the course builds on the foundation of the first half, the final exam will be cummulative. Each examwill consist of 50 identifications from microscope slides and written questions of multiple choice, T/F, matching, or short essay format.
You cannot cram for this course. To encourage you to study this material at a steady pace, 10 point lab quizzes will be given in weeks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 (either Tuesday or Thursday). At the discretion of the instructor, excellent performace on the quizzes may partly offset poor performace on one exam and therefore there may be more than six quizzes. Since these quizzes will function as both an evaluative tool and as a teaching tool in this course they will typically have extra credit points as I expect that you will get some questions wrong on every quiz.
A ten page term/research paper is required (no this class is not writing emphasis). Each student will choose an organ or organ system and a disease that affects that organ system and research the histopathology of the disease. References must be cited and a bibliography provided at the end of the paper (not a part of the ten pages of text). Text is to be doublespaced, New Times Roman font 10 point, with one inch margins. Other formatting issues will be discussed in class. Each student will meet with me by the third week to discuss possible topics. A one page paper proposal is due at the end of the seventh week and a rough draft of the paper is due at the end of week 13. The final draft of your paper will be due at the time of the final.
Grades will be assigned on the following scale:
Depending on the difficulty of the exams and the performance of the class this scale may be adjusted downward during the semester. Plus or minus grades will be assigned for scores within 2 points of the transition. This is an upper division course and I assume you want to be in class and learn the material.