The attempt will be to explain, integrate and synthesize information rather than simply to describe, so that students will achieve a working knowledge of physiology not just a memory bank of physiological facts. As students gain understanding of these principles, they should be able to apply them to novel situations. Eleven of the laboratory exercises will require that your lab table submit a group laboratory report of your findings. Your table will submit a single report from the group at your table rather than individual reports from each of you. It will be your responsibility to collaborate on the writing and assembly of these reports and the entire table will get the same grade on the report.
Reports are due one week after each lab.
There will be no written reports from the three inquiry-based labs as each table will report on its findings in class at the end of each of these three lab sessions. Concerning the relationship between lecture topics and laboratory exercises. Concerning the application of statistical methods to data collected in the laboratory. A major objective of laboratory exercises is to collect data and evaluate it to determine whether something has happened. In some cases this will involve only the calculation of measures of central tendency such as means and standard deviations and standard errors.