1 Life Sciences 2 Cells, Tissues, and Organs (lecture 1), 5 credits Course Outline Winter 2007 This course is designed for students interested in the life sciences and is part of a four-course sequence (LS1-LS4). This course has three hours of lecture per week, a three hour laboratory component that generally alternates with a 1 ½ hour discussion section each week. LECTURE: M, W, F 1:00pm – 1:50 pm La Kretz 110 INSTRUCTORS OFFICE HOURS PHONE EMAIL Cameron Gundersen, PhD M, R 4-5 pm 825-3423 [email protected] Room: TBA Niranjala Tillakaratne, PhD M, R 4-5 pm 206-2575 [email protected] Life Science 1818 Lab Director: Gaston M. U. Pfluegl, PhD E-mail: [email protected] Phone : 310-794-4113 CLASS WEB SITE: http://www.lsic.ucla.edu/classes/winter07/ LAB WEB SITE: http://lslab.lscore.ucla.edu/ STUDY GUIDE: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/ LSCORE POLICIES: http://www.lscore.ucla.edu/policies/ TEACHING Melvin Ku [email protected] ASSISTANTS (TAs): Rory Spence [email protected] Alan Torres [email protected] Sherry Soliman [email protected] Renee Chen [email protected] Elizabeth Wong [email protected] Ray Luo [email protected] COURSE Lily Yanez, [email protected] 310-825-6614 ADMINISTRATOR: Life Sciences Core Curriculum Office, Life Science 2305 REQUIRED TEXTS & MATERIALS: 1. The textbook may be purchased at the ASCULA Bookstore. Sadava, Heller, Orians, Purves and Hillis, Life, The Science of Biology, 8th edition, 2007. Sinauer Associates, Inc.: Sunderland, Freeman and Co.: Gordonsville, VA . 2. LS 2 Laboratory Manual may be purchased at the ASCULA Bookstore. Pfluegl, Life Sciences 2, Cells, Tissues and Organs, 6th edition, 2006-2007. Hayden-McNeil Publishing, Inc.: Plymouth, MI. ISBN #978-0-7380-2129-4. 3. A set of ScientificAmerican articles can be downloaded from the UCLA library (see page 5). 4. A Chemistry CD comes with the laboratory manual. Cooper, LS2, Cells-Organs-Tissues: The Nature & Properties of Biologically Important Molecules, edition 2.1, 2006. The Regents of UCLA.2 RESERVE MATERIALS: Textbooks are on reserve in Powell Library. EXAMS: The exams will be given in the evening and cover material from the Textbook, the Study Guide, the Lectures, the Scientific American readings and the Discussion Sections. Midterm I: Thursday, Feb 01 5:00P-6:50P TBA Midterm II: Thursday, Feb 22 5:00P-6:50P TBA Final Exam: Wednesday, March 21 6:30P-9:30P TBA There are NO make-up exams. If you cannot take an exam because of an emergency, you must contact the Life Sciences Core Curriculum office (LS 2305; 825-6614) before the exam with written verification of the emergency. Requests for regrades of exams must be submitted in writing with a detailed explanation and justification, within one week after the exams have been graded. Regrades will be held until the end of the term. At that time, if the regrade will affect the letter grade, then the outcome of the re-grade will be considered. Finals will not be returned to the students and are available for viewing at the LS-Core office (see http://www.lscore.ucla.edu/policies.html for details). Grading: Your final grade will be based on total points. There are 500 possible points for the course: Midterm Exams........................200 pts 2 @ 100 pts each Final Exam................................170 pts Comprehensive, including 20 pts from lab questions. Discussion…………………...….50 pts Three worksheets on Scientific American articles, @ 10pts each; Two quizzes @ 5 pts each and 10 pts for participation. Lab Reports................................80 pts Scientific Methods: group lab report/Proposal 5 pts Photosynthesis: quiz and group lab report 15 pts Metabolism: quiz and individual lab report 18 pts Rat dissection: in class assignment 8 pts Histology lab: in class assignment 16 pts URI 10 pts Quizzes 8 pts The Midterm exams will include both multiple-choice type questions (40 @ 2pts each) as well as short-answer questions (several worth a total of 20 pts). The Final exam will be comprehensive but emphasize material covered after the second midterm exam and will also include questions from the laboratory. The Final exam will be comprised of multiple-choice type questions (75 @ 2pts each, 10 lab @ 2pts each). Any score below 250 points receives a failing grade (letter grade F). Packaged with the Course reader is a CD-ROM entitled “The Nature and Properties of Biologically Important Molecules” which runs either in a PC or Mac format. You are expected to familiarize yourself with this material as only limited lecture time is available to cover this basic material. During the3 Discussion section your TA will clarify any questions you have concerning material on the CD-ROM. Midterm 1 will include questions relating to this material. FINAL LETTER GRADES IN THE COURSE ARE BASED ON YOUR TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS (out of 500) AND WILL BE DISTRIBUTED ROUGHLY AS FOLLOWS: 15% A+, A, A- 35% B+, B, B- 35% C+, C, C- ~10% D+, D, D- Effort: Like most other universities, the University of California expects three hours of work each week/credit, or 15 hours each week for a five credit course. For this class, that means five hours in class and ten hours outside of class. If you cannot devote this amount of time (or more!), consider taking fewer courses, working fewer hours on your job, or dropping the course! To understand the material and enjoy the course you should skim the textbook before lecture, attend lecture and re-read the text carefully after lecture. Then, answer the conceptual questions in the Study Guide CD. If you are confused, get help right away (post a question on the Blackboard or attend an office hour). Do not delay! IMPORTANT NOTICES: Academic Integrity Students are expected to be aware of the University policy on academic integrity in the UCLA Student Conduct Code