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
  Credit Change    Writing Requirement
  Add Cross-listing    Other

Effective Term: Spring, 2001

New/Current Course Number: 630 - 253

New/Current Course Title: Introduction to Cell Biology
 

Sponsor(s): Lance Urven
Department(s): Biological Sciences
College(s): Letters and Sciences
Other Programs Affected: Chemistry

Check if course is required in:

Attach the following:

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

Revision FROM
Two lectures and one laboratory of two hours each per week.

TO
Three lectures per week. See attached syllabus. Other than deletion of laboratories, no syllabus revision is necessary. Topics scheduled in the past will ALL be covered and in more depth than has been covered in past semesters.
 

 Description FROM
Introduction to the chemical and physical bases of life; bacterial and eukaryotic cell
structure and function; cellular respiration; photosynthesis; and molecular biology.
Laboratory exercises will include microscopy, cell culture, and selected chemical and cell organelle isolation and assay techniques. Four hours of lecture and lab per week. Offered every semester. Prereq: 630-141, 630-142, and 640-102. Coreq: 640-104.

TO
Introduction to the chemical and physical bases of life; bacterial and eukaryotic cell
structure and function; cellular respiration; photosynthesis; and molecular biology.
Laboratory exercises will include microscopy, cell culture, and selected chemical and cell organelle isolation and assay techniques. Four Three hours of lecture and lab per week. Offered every semester. Prereq: 630-141, 630-142, and 640-102. Coreq: 640-104.
 
 

 Contact Hours FROM Four contact hours per week (64/semester)
TO three contact hours per week (48/semester) II. Justification for action Introduction to Cell Biology is the gateway course for students in the Cell Biology and Physiology Emphasis to their upper division specialty courses. Instructors in the course have voiced concern that they have to trade off between depth or breadth in covering topics normally expected in such courses. Creation of the Biotechnology Laboratory Methods course, as requested in the accompanying proposal, would replace the laboratory in this course. The third credit hour in this course would be used for lecture instead of lab. More lecture time should allow instructors to further explore topics that give students particular trouble, and to explain material in more detail. Additional lecture time will allow better coverage of basic cell biology, better preparing students for advanced coursework at UWW and for standardized placement tests such as the Graduate Records Examination in Biology or the Medical College Admissions Test. Deferring laboratory to a separate course specifically for students who will seek biotechnology methods in their course plan allows better allocation of departmental resources and a richer experience for students who are motivated by career aspirations to learn techniques presented in the laboratory. From:

Spring, 2000 -- 630 253

Lecture Schedule

Week # / Lecture Topic(s) / Reading(s)

1 / Course Introduction --Basic Properties of Cells / Ch. 1
2 / Chemistry Review, Basic Biochemistry / Ch. 2
3 / Basic Biochemistry / Ch. 2
4 / Basic Biochemistry, Bioenergetics / Ch. 2,3

LECTURE EXAM I (through bioenergetics) during lab time Tuesday/Wednesday, Feb. 15 or 16, 2000

5 / Enzymes / Ch. 3
6 / Anaerobic Metabolism (glycolysis & fermentation) / Ch. 3
7 / The Plasma Membrane / Ch. 4
8 / Mitochondria, Aerobic Metabolism (TCA cycle) / Ch. 5

LECTURE EXAM II (through aerobic metabolism) during lab time Tuesday/Wednesday, March 14 or 15, 2000

9 / Chloroplast, Photosynthesis / Ch. 6
10 / Cellular Microenvironment, Endomembranes / Ch. 7
11 / Endomembranes, Membrane Trafficking / Ch. 8
12 / Cytoskeleton / Ch. 9

LECTURE EXAM III (through cytoskeleton) during lab time Tuesday/Wednesday, April 18 or 19, 2000

13 / Transcription/Translation / Ch. 11
14 / Cell Reproduction / Ch. 14
15 / Signal Transduction / Ch. 15

5/8 / 17 / FINAL EXAM (In Lecture Room) Monday, 5/8/00 7:45 - 9:45 AM

LAB SCHEDULE

Week # / Lab Topic / Readings

1/ Lab Introduction -- basic lab techniques / appendix 1
2 / Bacterial Growth Kinetics: dilution plating / appendix 2
3 / Bacterial Growth Kinetics: data analysis, Gram staining / appendix 3
4 / Light Microscopy: basics/function/adjustment / 768-772

5 / LECTURE EXAM I

6 / Light Microscopy: specimen preparation / Report #1 DUE* / 772-781
7 / Enzymology I: reaction rate vs temperature / 90-98, 211-212
8 / Enzymology II: reaction rate vs [substrate] / 98-104

9 / LECTURE EXAM II

10 / Subcellular Fractionation & the Hill reaction / 232-235, 788-789
11 / PAGE: sample preparation / Report #2 DUE* / 788-794
12 / PAGE: electrophoresis of samples

13 / LECTURE EXAM III

14 / Cell Culture / 785-788
15 / Mitosis / 616-628

16 / NO LAB -- FINAL EXAM in lecture room, Monday, 5/8/00 7:45 - 9:45 AM

* Report #1 = Bacterial Growth Experiment
* Report #2 = Enzymology Experiments

To:

Spring, 2000 -- 630 253

Lecture Schedule

Week # / Lecture Topic(s) / Reading(s)

1 / Course Introduction --Basic Properties of Cells / Ch. 1
2 / Chemistry Review, Basic Biochemistry / Ch. 2
3 / Basic Biochemistry / Ch. 2
4 / Basic Biochemistry, Bioenergetics / Ch. 2,3

LECTURE EXAM I (through bioenergetics)

5 / Enzymes / Ch. 3
6 / Anaerobic Metabolism (glycolysis & fermentation) / Ch. 3
7 / The Plasma Membrane / Ch. 4
8 / Mitochondria, Aerobic Metabolism (TCA cycle) / Ch. 5

LECTURE EXAM II (through aerobic metabolism)

9 / Chloroplast, Photosynthesis / Ch. 6
10 / Cellular Microenvironment, Endomembranes / Ch. 7
11 / Endomembranes, Membrane Trafficking / Ch. 8
12 / Cytoskeleton / Ch. 9

LECTURE EXAM III (through cytoskeleton)

13 / Cell Motility / Ch. 9
14 / Cellular Reproduction / Ch. 14
15 / Cell Signalling / Ch. 15

5/8 / 17 / FINAL EXAM (In Lecture Room) Monday, 5/8/00 7:45 - 9:45 AM

NO LAB