1. About a month before this class starts, I will send an to everyone registered in this class with details, including
Address of course webpage
Textbook and required reading assignments
Attendance at every lecture and every lab
No use of computers, tablets, or other electronics in
lecture (one exception: You may bring a voice
recorder and leave it at the front of the room)
Posting of modified Powerpoints to be printed out
Posting of lab exercises to be printed out
Students with special circumstances

2. I will ask you read and understand
The course syllabus
“How to Study Most Effectively for This Course”
In the next two or three days, please go through the course webpage
and check out the other resources which are linked to it

3. The course homepage provides links to the Powerpoints used in class.
You should print these out and bring them to class to take notes. No, you can not download them and bring your computer to lecture to take those notes.
Be Careful! Do NOT assume that having copies of the Powerpoints is the same as “taking notes”. Since most of the test questions for this course will be taken from what I say, not what I project on the screen, you will also need to be sure to take good notes of that information as well.

4. You will need to purchase a $7
You will need to purchase a $7.00 “glove voucher” from the WSU Bookstore and turn it in to me no later than the beginning of lecture on Thursday, July 6th.
You will need to download, read and understand, print out, and sign the Lab Safety Contract. This must also be returned to me no later than the beginning of lecture on Thursday July 6th.
A video from the University of Minnesota about the use of our cadavers is posted on the course website. You need to view that video; then download, read, print out, and sign the Cadaver Lab Student Agreement. This must also be returned to me no later than the beginning of lecture on Thursday July 6th.

5. Exams
4 Lecture Exams on Mondays: 25 questions each
Covers: lecture information from previous week
Final Exam: 75 questions
Cumulative – covers entire course
3 Lab Exams: 25 questions
Covers: Labs since previous lab exam

6. Grading
Total of 250 points: 100 from weekly lecture exams
75 from lab exams
75 from cumulative final exam
Curve: Points added at end of course
(explained in syllabus)
Depends on attendance and preparation
A = >91%
B = >81%
C = >71%
D = >61%
F = <61%

7. Anatomy and Physiology I – Biology 211 or its equivalent -is a prerequisite for this course.
Since some of you may have just completed that course while others did so a year or more ago, I want to be sure that the transition from that course to this one goes as smoothly as possible.
You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with a number of concepts from A&P I which will be incorporated into A&P II as well, and you should go back and review these tonight if necessary.
These terms and concepts will be used in lectures and labs, and I will assume you know them on exams…

8. You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the following concepts from A&P I:
1) Structural Hierarchy

9. You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the following concepts from A&P I:
2) Cellular structure –
Particularly the plasma membrane, channels, and how
things get across it into and out of the cell.

10. You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the following concepts from A&P I:
3) Macromolecules:
How amino acids form proteins
How monosaccharides form carbohydrates
How fatty acids & glycerol form lipids
How nucleotides form nucleic acids
Be sure you understand both dehydration synthesis
and hydrolysis

11. You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the following concepts from A&P I:
4) Basic Histology
Cells, fibers, ground substance
Types and classification of epithalia, connective tissues,
muscle tissues, and nervous tissues

12. You should be particularly familiar/comfortable with the following concepts from A&P I:
5) Terms of relative position:
Anterior Posterior
Ventral Dorsal
Superior Inferior
Lateral Medial
Superficial Deep
Proximal Distal

13. In addition to those five broad concepts of structural hierarchy, cellular structure, macromolecules, tissues, and terms of relative position; you will need to know some additional specific information you learned in the first Anatomy and Physiology course:
1. How to properly use a microsope.
2. The mechanism of contraction in skeletal muscle
(you will need to know this for cardiac muscle)
3. How an action potential is generated and propagated
and what occurs at a chemical synapse
(you will need to know this as we discuss neural control
of different systems)

14. This does not mean that the other topics of the earlier prerequisite course are not important. You should review them all within the next few days if it has been a while since you took A&P I.
However, you will have particular problems in A&P II
if you do not have a good grasp of these topics.
I will assume you do, and this information will show up in exam questions.

15. We want you to succeed in this course, so please:
1. Attend all lectures and labs, and use open lab times.
2. Come to lectures and labs prepared
a) Complete reading assignments before lectures.
b) Read and understand labs before lab periods.
Pay attention and take good notes in lectures & labs -
What we say as well as what is projected on the board
Plan to spend at least 4 or 5 hours per day
at least 6 days per week
studying for this class
a) Reviewing notes and textbook
b) Correlating lecture, lab, & textbook information
5. Study each subject until you thoroughly understand it,
not just until you have memorized it.

16. Keys to succeeding in A&P
1. Study in relatively short blocks, min, with breaks between
2. Use different methods of study: reading, writing, discussing, etc.
3. Be sure you understand concepts - don’t just memorize
4. Constantly ask yourself “how does structure relate to function?
5. Go back-and-forth between notes and the textbook
6. You can’t fall behind - even for a day
Repetition, repetition, repetition!
You have studied a subject enough when you can explain it to someone else without using notes.
If you can’t do this, you haven’t studied enough.