CURRICULUM PROPOSAL FORM #4
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER
CHANGE IN OR DELETION OF EXISTING COURSE


  Type of Action:    
  Course Deletion    Requisite Change
 X Course Revision   Repeatability Change
 X Description Change    Diversity Option
  Title Change   General Education Option
  Number Change              area:
 X Contact Hour Change    Computer Requirement
 X Credit Change    Writing Requirement
  Add Cross-listing    Other

Effective Term: Spring, 2001

New/Current Course Number: 630 - 142

New/Current Course Title: General Zoology

15 Character Abbreviation: General Zoology
25 Character Abbreviation: General Zoology

Sponsor(s): Lance Urven
Department(s): Biological Sciences
College(s): Letters and Sciences

Other Programs Affected:

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Attach the following:

I. Detailed explanation of changes (use FROM/TO format)

Course Revision FROM
Two laboratories per week of two hours each.

TO
A single laboratory per week of three hours duration. See attached syllabus. No syllabus revision is necessary, since all topics will be covered as in the past. A few individual components within lab topics may be deleted, but those will be kept to a minimum, thanks to efficiencies generated by one longer lab period as compared to two shorter labs (e.g. only one orientation lecture and less set-up/take-down time for students)
 

 Description
            FROM
            An introduction to animal life with emphasis on evolution, genetics, development,
            organ systems, ecology, and classification. Dissection of preserved animal specimens
            is a requirement for all students enrolled. Four hours of laboratory and three hours of
            lecture per week. This course is prerequisite to all advanced courses in biology.
            Offered every semester. Coreq: 760-141 TO
An introduction to animal life with emphasis on evolution, genetics, development, organ
systems, ecology, and classification. Dissection of preserved animal specimens is a
requirement for all students enrolled. Three hours of laboratory and three hours of lecture per week. This course is prerequisite to all advanced courses in biology. Offered every semester. Coreq: 760-141


Contact Hours

FROM Seven contact hours per week (112/semester)
TO six contact hours per week (96/semester)


Credit Hours

FROM Five
TO Four II. Justification for action (1) A three-hour block of lab time provides a better platform for inquiry-directed laboratory exercises than do two hour lab blocks. Inquiry-directed science curricula are recommended by Project Kaleidoscope and other organizations advocating science education reforms.

(2) Part of the department’s gradual move from two contact hours to three for laboratories in majors’ courses of four or five credits, in keeping with standards set in Chemistry and Physics.

(3) Standing educational goals for this class can be met just as well, but more efficiently, in this format by reducing unintentional redundancy with General Botany, Introduction to Genetics, and Introduction to Cell Biology.

(4) Three lecture/one lab format courses can be scheduled more easily for both faculty and students than three lectures/two labs, especially for students taking more than one lab course in a given semester.

(5) Provides scheduling and curricular room for the proposed Biotechnology Laboratory Methods course in the Biology: Cell Biology and Physiology Emphasis and for additional electives in the Biology: Ecology and Field Biology Emphasis.

Week
Reading Assignment
Topics
1
 Lec: Dorit et al , 1*, 2*, 3, 4  & 5 Intro. to course, molecules of life, origin of life, Eukaryotic cells
  Lab: None Ecology field trip depending on weather
2
 Lec: Dorit et al , 1*, 2*, 3, 4  & 5 Intro. to course, molecules of life, origin of life, Eukaryotic cells
  Lab: Hickman et. al , 1, 5 & 7; 
Dorit et al. 5, 23 & 24		 Intro. to lab. How is science done and is it biased? Light microscopy introduction, cells, mitosis and Protozoans. 
3
 Lec: Dorit et al., 6 & 7 Genetics
  Lab: Hickman et. al , 8 & 9; 
Dorit et al., 10, 25 & 26		 Metazoans, sponges, ctenophores and cnidarians
4
 Lec: Dorit et al , 6 - 9 Genetics cont.; Evolution start
  Lab:Hickman et. al , 10, 11 & 13; 
Dorit et al., 27, 28 and 30		 Lab: Worms: flat, round and segmented; earth worm dissection.
5
 Lec: Dorit et al, 8, 9 & 41 Evolution cont., Primate evolution
  Lab: Review Mon. 9/27 Lab exam 1 Fri. 10/1
Bring your note book and a pencil.
6
 Lec: Dorit et al, 10 & 23 Lecture Exam 1, Tues. 10/5, Bring a pencil.
Symmetry and form, systematics for Wed. & Thur.
  Lab: Hickman et. al, 12; 
Dorit et al, 29		 Molluscs; clam dissection.
7
 Lec: Dorit et al , 11*, 12 and 16* Body covering etc., digestion and excretion
  Lab: Hickman et. al, 13, 15 & 16; 
Dorit et al., 31 and 32		 Arthropods; crayfish dissection. 
8
 Lec: Dorit et al, 13 Cellular respiration etc.
  Lab: Hickman et. al, 17 
Dorit et al, 33 and 34		 Echinoderms and bryozoans; starfish dissection.
9
 Lec: Dorit et al, 13 & 14 Cellular respiration cont., Internal transport
  Lab: Dorit et al, 35 (36 - 40 to be used as reference chapters) Chordates; fish dissection.

 
Week
Reading Assignment
Topics
10
 Lec: Dorit et al , 14 & 15 Internal transport and start of immune system
  Lab: Review Mon. 11/1 Lab exam 2 Fri. 11/5
Bring your note book and a pencil.
11
 Lec: Dorit et al, 15 Lecture Exam 2, Tues. 11/9
Immune system for Wed. & Thur.
  Lab: Handouts (I'll get them to you a week or so in advance) Molecular Biology
12
 Lec: Dorit et al , 17 & 18 Nervous system and receptors
  Lab: Hickman et. al , 23, 
Dorit et al, 11-19 & 40 (reference)		 Fetal Pig dissection and Cat Skeleton; Bring the Odlaug manual and your dissection kits.
13
 Lec: Dorit et al 19 & 21 Endocrine system and reproduction
  Lab: Hickman et. al , 23, 
Dorit et al, 11-19 & 40 (reference)		 Fetal Pig cont. Bring the Odlaug manual and your dissection kits.
14
 Lec: Dorit et al , 20 & 22 Development and start of behavior
  Lab: Hickman et. al , 23, 
Dorit et al, 11-19 & 40 (reference)		 Fetal Pig cont. Bring the Odlaug manual and your dissection kits.
15
 Lec: Dorit et al , 42 & 43 Ecology
  Lab: Cat/Pig review, Mon 12/6 Lab exam 3 Fri. 12/10 Bring your note book and a pencil.
Lab notebooks are due directly after Lab exam 3.
16 &
Finals
 Lec: None Review on 12/14 
Final 7:45-9:45; Tues.; 12/21; at classroom (UH136)
  Lab: To be Announced To be Announced