1 Life Sciences 2 Cells, Tissues, and Organs (lecture 1), 5 credits Course Outline for Spring 2008 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 and a three hour laboratory component that generally alternates weeks with a 1 ½ hour discussion section. LECTURE: M, W, F 1:00pm – 1:50 pm La Kretz 110 INSTRUCTORS: OFFICE HOURS PHONE EMAIL Cameron Gundersen, PhD M 3-4 pm & R 4-5 pm 825-3423 [email protected] Room: TBA Starting week 6 Niranjala Tillakaratne, PhD M 3-4 pm & 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/spring08/ LAB WEB SITE: http://lslab.lscore.ucla.edu/ STUDY GUIDE: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/ LS CORE POLICIES: http://www.lscore.ucla.edu/policies/ TEACHING Deepthi Sudhakar [email protected] TBA ASSISTANTS (TAs): Marissa Chernishof [email protected] T 10am-noon 240 L Factor Blg Renee Chen [email protected] TBA Chris Ko [email protected] TBA Elizabeth Wong [email protected] TBA Mike Wygant [email protected] TBA COURSE Lily Yanez, [email protected] 310-825-6614 ADMINISTRATORS: Mark Katayama [email protected] 310-825-6614 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, 7thth edition, 2007-2008. Hayden-McNeil Publishing, Inc.: Plymouth, MI. ISBN #978-0-7380-2478-3. 3. A set of ScientificAmerican articles can be downloaded from the UCLA library (see page 5).2 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. 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 the Discussion Sections and the Lab (final only). Midterm I: Thursday, April 24th 5:00PM-6:50PM TBA Midterm II: Thursday, May 15th 5:00PM-6:50PM TBA Final Exam: Wednesday, June 11th 6:30PM-9:30PM 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+quiz).....................80 pts Scientific Methods: individual lab report 15 pts Photosynthesis: quiz and group lab report 19 pts Metabolism: quiz and individual lab report 22 pts Rat dissection: in class assignment 8 pts Histology lab: in class assignment 16 pts The Midterm exams will include both multiple-choice type questions (~40-45 @ 2pts each) and short-answer questions (worth a total of ~10-20 pts). The Final exam will be comprehensive but it will emphasize material covered after midterm II, and it will also include questions from the laboratory. The Final exam will be comprised of multiple-choice questions (75 @ 2pts each, 10 lab @ 2pts each). Cumulative scores below 250 points receive 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 yourself3 with this material as limited lecture time is available to cover these basic concepts. During the Discussion section, your TA can clarify any questions you have concerning material on the CD-ROM. Midterm I will include questions relating to this material. FINAL LETTER GRADES FOR THE COURSE ARE BASED ON YOUR TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS (out of 500 possible) 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 10 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 are encouraged skim the textbook before lecture, attend lecture and re-read the text carefully after lecture (during the systems portion of the course, the major emphasis will be on vertebrate (and, human) systems biology and physiology). Then, answer the conceptual questions in the Study Guide CD. If you are