BIOG 1440

BIOG 1440

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

An introductory physiology course intended for freshman and sophomore biology majors and other students majoring in life sciences. The course integrates physiology from the cell to the organism with comparisons among animals, plants and microbes. Emphasis is on understanding of basic physiological concepts, stressing structure-function relationships and underlying physio-chemical mechanisms.

When Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.

Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will not receive credit for both BIOG 1440 and BIOG 1445.

Distribution Category (BIO-AG, PBS-AS)

Outcomes
  • To understand the principles of how organisms work at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels, how these principles are based on the rules of physics and chemistry, and how the processes of physiology at one level emerge from processes at the lower levels.
  • To be able to think like a physiologist. This involves understanding how the properties of cells determine function at all higher levels of biological organization including how cellular membranes create selective barriers and how substances cross these barriers, how biological processes are regulated, and how cells and organisms exchange energy and matter with the environment, respond to their environment (including stimulus transduction, intercellular communication, and information processing), and generate mechanical forces and movement.
  • To appreciate the similarities and differences between the physiologies of humans and other organisms, and so to appreciate how the study of comparative physiology is relevant to understanding your own life, and to understanding how evolution explains both the unity and diversity of life.

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2912 BIOG 1440   LEC 001

  • Biological Science majors taking this course are required to take a letter grade. This class will be changed to instructor consent on the first day of this class. If this class is full, attend the first lecture and the section you would like to enroll in, you must fill out an add form indicating 3 section choices that will work with your schedule. If there is an opening you will be sent a permission code to add the class.

  •  2913 BIOG 1440   DIS 201

  •  2914 BIOG 1440   DIS 202

  •  2915 BIOG 1440   DIS 203

  •  2916 BIOG 1440   DIS 204

  •  2917 BIOG 1440   DIS 205

  •  2918 BIOG 1440   DIS 206

  •  2919 BIOG 1440   DIS 207

  •  2920 BIOG 1440   DIS 208

  •  2921 BIOG 1440   DIS 210

  •  2922 BIOG 1440   DIS 212

  •  2923 BIOG 1440   DIS 213

  •  2924 BIOG 1440   DIS 214

  •  2959 BIOG 1440   DIS 215

  •  3049 BIOG 1440   DIS 216

  •  3050 BIOG 1440   DIS 217

  •  3051 BIOG 1440   DIS 218

  •  3987 BIOG 1440   DIS 219

  •  3988 BIOG 1440   DIS 220