TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
Summer Session I 2023

Course Anatomy & Physiology I BIOL 2301 – 301

Instructor: Oscar N. Ramos
Office: LBVSC 184
Telephone: 956 326 2441
E-mail: [email protected]
Office hours: M-R 2:45-3:45 pm
Class Time:12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Days MWF
Lecture room: BLK 103

Course description:
BIOL 2301 (BIOL 2301)
Anatomy and Physiology I
Three semester hours. (FL)
A study of the structure and function of the human body including cells, tissues, and organs of the
following systems: integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous system and special senses. Prerequisite:
Consult your departmental advisor or obtain instructor's permission. Must be taken concurrently with BIOL
2101. Carries no credit for biology majors.

Learning outcomes:
After completing of the course the students will be able to:
1. Discuss homeostasis
2. Describe the anatomy terminology and body plan
3. Describe the structure of human cells
4. Discuss the functions of human cells
5. Describe the tissues of the human body
6. Discuss the function of the tissues of the human body
7. Microscopically identify the tissues of the human body
8. Describe the structure of the integumentary system
9. Discuss the functions of the integumentary system
10. Describe the structure of the bones
11. Discuss the functions of the skeletal system
12. Identify and describe the two hundred and six named bones of the human body
13. Describe the structure and function of the three types of muscle tissue
14. Describe the functions of the muscular system
15. Identify and describe the major skeletal muscles of the human body
16. Describe the structure of neurons and neuroglia
17. Discuss the function of neurons and neuroglia
18. Describe the central nervous system
19. Discuss the function of the central nervous system
20. Describe the peripheral nervous system
21. Discuss the function of the peripheral nervous system including the motor, sensor, and autonomic
systems
22. Describe the structure of the senses of the human body
23. Discuss the function of the senses of the human body
Textbooks:
Anatomy and Physiology
OpenStax College
Rice University
6100 Main Street MS-380
Houston, Texas 77005
ISBN 978-1-938168-13-0

Course Grading Policy:

There will be four partial exams, and a final comprehensive examination. Your final grade will be
calculated based on the following distribution:
1.Three partial Exams 50 points
2. Final Comprehensive Exam 50 points

Grades will be recorded from “A” to “F”. Numerical values corresponding to these letters are as
follows:
A 90-100, excellent
B 80-89, good
C 70-79, average
D 60-69, passing
F below 60, failure

Tests: The vast majority of test questions will be derived from lecture content; however, a few questions
may also be taken from material in assigned textbook chapters that may not have been discussed in
lecture. * Test will be given online on Blackboard. Students will need to have Respondus/Lockdown
in order to take the exams. *
Final Exam: The final exam is comprehensive and will be given only at the date and time stipulated in
the university final exam schedule.
There will be no make-up tests. Please see the attendance rules in the student handbook regarding valid
excuses. Regardless of the excuse, appropriate documentation is required to substantiate the date and time
in question.

Cell phone usage is prohibited during lecture along with any recording devices unless you have
requested permission from the instructor. Cell phones along with any digital devices are not allowed
during an exam.

Notes:
1. You are expected to be present for every class session.
2. Exams will not be made up under any circumstance. Please, advise the instructor in case of emergency.
If a partial grade is missed and the absence has been excused, the grade of the final exam will be used
to replace the missed grade to compute the course final grade.

Tentative sessions
Week Topic Session
June 5 - 8: An Introduction to The Human Body 1

The importance of Physics and Chemistry for Human

Physiology
June 12 - 15: The Human Cells 4

The Human Tissues

The Integumentary System 7

Exam 1 Tuesday

June 19: Juneteenth Observed (No Classes)

June 20 – 22: The Skeletal Tissue 8

The Skull 10

The Axial Skeleton 11

The Appendicular Skeleton 13

The Joints 14

Exam 2 Monday

June 26 – 29: Muscles and Muscle Tissue 16

Fundamentals of the Nervous System

The Brain 29

The spinal cord 31

Exam 3 Monday

July 3 – 6: The Cranial Nerves

The Spinal Nerves

The Senses

The autonomic nervous system

Final Exam

Friday July 7

***This syllabus is subject to change.

Texas A&M International University

Course Policies
(To be attached to all university syllabi)

Last Revised: December 20, 2021

COVID

Students are strongly encouraged to get fully vaccinated and to get booster shots after an
appropriate number of months. Students are also strongly encouraged to wear masks when
entering buildings or when congregating with other students in close proximity outdoors.
Maintaining at least 3 feet of social distance with others is also highly recommended. TAMIU offers
free COVID testing.

Class Attendance Required

With the exception of online courses, students are expected to attend every class in person and to
complete all assignments. If you cannot attend class, it is your responsibility to communicate
absences with your professors. The faculty member will decide if your excuse is valid. According to
University policy, acceptable reasons for an absence (physical or virtual), which cannot affect a
student’s grade, include:

• Participation in an authorized University activity.

• Death or major illness in a student’s immediate family.
• Illness of a dependent family member.
• Participation in legal proceedings or administrative procedures that require a student’s
presence.
• Religious holy day.
• Illness that is too severe or contagious for the student to attend class.
• Required participation in military duties.
• Mandatory admission interviews for professional or graduate school which cannot be
rescheduled.

Students are responsible for providing satisfactory evidence to faculty members within seven
calendar days of their absence and return to class. They must substantiate the reason for absence. If
the absence is excused, faculty members must either provide students with the opportunity to make
up the exam or other work missed or provide a satisfactory alternative to complete the exam or
other work missed within 30 calendar days from the date of absence. Students who miss class due
to a University-sponsored activity are responsible for identifying their absences to their instructors
with as much advance notice as possible. The right to view recorded class meetings depends upon
receiving an excused absence from the faculty member teaching the class.

Classroom Behavior

TAMIU encourages classroom discussion and academic debate as an essential intellectual activity.
It is essential that students learn to express and defend their beliefs, but it is also essential that they
learn to listen and respond respectfully to others whose beliefs they may not share. The University
will always tolerate diverse, unorthodox, and unpopular points of view, but it will not tolerate
condescending or insulting remarks. When students verbally abuse or ridicule and intimidate
others whose views they do not agree with, they subvert the free exchange of ideas that should
characterize a university classroom. If their actions are deemed by the professor to be disruptive,
they will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action (please refer to Student Handbook Article 4).
TAMIU Honor Code: Plagiarism and Cheating

As a TAMIU student, you are bound by the TAMIU Honor Code to conduct yourself ethically in all
your activities as a TAMIU student and to report violations of the Honor Code. Please read carefully
the Student Handbook Article 7 and Article 10 available at
https://www.tamiu.edu/scce/studenthandbook.shtml.

We are committed to strict enforcement of the Honor Code.

Violations of the Honor Code tend to involve claiming work that is not one’s own, most commonly
plagiarism in written assignments and any form of cheating on exams and other types of
assignments.

Plagiarism is the presentation of someone else’s work as your own. It occurs when you:

1) Borrow someone else’s facts, ideas, or opinions and put them entirely in your own words, you
must acknowledge that these thoughts are not your own by immediately citing the source in your
paper. Failure to do this is plagiarism.
2) Borrow someone else’s words (short phrases, clauses, or sentences), you must enclose the
copied words in quotation marks as well as citing the source. Failure to do this is plagiarism. 3)
Present someone else’s paper or exam (stolen, borrowed, or bought) as your own, you have
committed a clearly intentional form of intellectual theft and have put your academic future in
jeopardy. This is the worst form of plagiarism.

Here is another explanation from the 2010, sixth edition of the Manual of The American
Psychological Association(APA):

Plagiarism: Researchers do not claim the words and ideas of another as their own; they give credit
where credit is due. Quotations marks should be used to indicate the exact words of another. Each
time you paraphrase another author (i.e., summarize a passage or rearrange the order of a sentence
and change some of the words), you need to credit the source in the text. The key element of this
principle is that authors do not present the work of another as if it were their own words. This can
extend to ideas as well as written words. If authors model a study after one done by someone else,
the originating author should be given credit. If the rationale for a study was suggested in the
Discussion section of someone else's article, the person should be given credit. Given the free
exchange of ideas, which is very important for the health of intellectual discourse, authors may not
know where an idea for a study originated. If authors do know, however, they should acknowledge
the source; this includes personal communications (pp. 15-16). For guidance on proper
documentation, consult the Writing Center or a recommended guide to documentation and
research such as the Manual of the APA or the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. If
you still have doubts concerning proper documentation, seek advice from your instructor prior to
submitting a final draft.

• Penalties for Plagiarism: Should a faculty member discover that a student has
committed plagiarism, the student should receive a grade of 'F' in that course and the
matter will be referred to the Honor Council for possible disciplinary action. The faculty
 member, however, may elect to give freshmen and sophomore students a “zero” for the
assignment and to allow them to revise the assignment up to a grade of “F” (50%) if they
believe that the student plagiarized out of ignorance or carelessness and not out of an
attempt to deceive in order to earn an unmerited grade; the instructor must still report the
offense to the Honor Council. This option should not be available to juniors, seniors, or
graduate students, who cannot reasonably claim ignorance of documentation rules as an
excuse. For repeat offenders in undergraduate courses or for an offender in any graduate
course, the penalty for plagiarism is likely to include suspension or expulsion from the
university.
• Caution: Be very careful what you upload to Turnitin or send to your professor for
evaluation. Whatever you upload for evaluation will be considered your final, approved
draft. If it is plagiarized, you will be held responsible. The excuse that “it was only a draft”
will not be accepted.

• Caution: Also, do not share your electronic files with others. If you do, you are
responsible for the possible consequences. If another student takes your file of a paper and
changes the name to his or her name and submits it and you also submit the paper, we
will hold both of you responsible for plagiarism. It is impossible for us to know with
certainty who wrote the paper and who stole it. And, of course, we cannot know if there
was collusion between you and the other student in the matter.

• Penalties for Cheating: Should a faculty member discover a student cheating on an

exam or quiz or other class project, the student should receive a “zero” for the assignment
and not be allowed to make the assignment up. The incident should be reported to the chair
of the department and to the Honor Council. If the cheating is extensive, however, or if the
assignment constitutes a major grade for the course (e.g., a final exam), or if the student has
cheated in the past, the student should receive an “F” in the course, and the matter should
be referred to the Honor Council. Additional penalties, including suspension or expulsion
from the university may be imposed. Under no circumstances should a student who
deserves an “F” in the course be allowed to withdraw from the course with a “W.”

• Caution: Chat groups that start off as “study groups” can easily devolve into
“cheating groups.” Be very careful not to join or remain any chat group if begins to
discuss specific information about exams or assignments that are meant to require
individual work. If you are a member of such a group and it begins to cheat, you will be
held responsible along with all the other members of the group. The TAMIU Honor Code
requires that you report any such instances of cheating.

• Student Right of Appeal: Faculty will notify students immediately via the student’s
TAMIU e- mail account that they have submitted plagiarized work. Students have the right
to appeal a faculty member’s charge of academic dishonesty by notifying the TAMIU Honor
Council of their intent to appeal as long as the notification of appeal comes within 10
business days of the faculty member’s e-mail message to the student and/or the Office of
Student Conduct and Community Engagement. The Student Handbook provides more
details.

Use of Work in Two or More Courses

You may not submit work completed in one course for a grade in a second course unless you receive
explicit permission to do so by the instructor of the second course. In general, you should get credit
for a work product only once.

Extra-Credit Work

Faculty may not give extra-credit opportunities to individual students. They must be made
available to all students in a class. Assignments for extra-credit must be directly related to the
learning outcomes of the specific course. No extra-credit opportunities at all may be given after
final grades for the semester are submitted.

UConnect, TAMIU E-Mail, and Dusty Alert

Personal Announcements sent to students through TAMIU’s Uconnect Portal and TAMIU E-mail
are the official means of communicating course and university business with students and faculty –
not the U.S. Mail and no other e-mail addresses. Students and faculty must check UConnect and
their TAMIU e-mail accounts regularly, if not daily. Not having seen an important TAMIU e-mail or
UConnect message from a faculty member, chair, or dean is not accepted as an excuse for failure to
take important action. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to sign-up for Dusty Alert(see
www.tamiu.edu). Dusty Alert is an instant cell phone text-messaging system allowing the university
to communicate immediately with you if there is an on-campus emergency, something of
immediate danger to you, or a campus closing.

Copyright Restrictions

The Copyright Act of 1976 grants to copyright owners the exclusive right to reproduce their works
and distribute copies of their work. Works that receive copyright protection include published
works such as a textbook. Copying a textbook without permission from the owner of the copyright
may constitute copyright infringement. Civil and criminal penalties may be assessed for copyright
infringement. Civil penalties include damages up to $100,000; criminal penalties include a fine up
to $250,000 and imprisonment. Copyright laws do not allow students and professors to make
photocopies of copyrighted materials, but you may copy a limited portion of a work, such as article
from a journal or a chapter from a book for your own personal academic use or, in the case of a
professor, for personal, limited classroom use. In general, the extent of your copying should not
suggest that the purpose or the effect of your copying is to avoid paying for the materials. And, of
course, you may not sell these copies for a profit. Thus, students who copy textbooks to avoid
buying them or professors who provide photocopies of textbooks to enable students to save money
are violating the law.

Students with Disabilities

Texas A&M International University seeks to provide reasonable accommodations for all qualified
persons with disabilities. This University will adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws,
regulations and guidelines with respect to providing reasonable accommodations as required to
afford equal education opportunity. It is the student's responsibility to register with the Office of
Student Counseling and Disability Services located in Student Center 126. This office will contact
the faculty member to recommend specific, reasonable accommodations. Faculty are prohibited
from making accommodations based solely on communications from students. They may make
accommodations only when provided documentation by the Student Counseling and Disability
Services office.

Student Attendance and Leave of Absence (LOA) Policy

As part of our efforts to assist and encourage all students towards graduation, TAMIU provides
LOA’s for students, including pregnant/parenting students, in accordance with the Attendance Rule
(Section 3.07) and the Student LOA Rule (Section 3.08), which includes the “Leave of Absence
Request” form. Both rules can be found in the TAMIU Student Handbook (URL:
http://www.tamiu.edu/studentaffairs/StudentHandbook1.shtml).

Pregnant and Parenting Students

Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, harassment based on sex, including
harassment because of pregnancy or related conditions, is prohibited. A pregnant/parenting
student must be granted an absence for as long as the student’s physician deems the absence
medically necessary. It is a violation of Title IX to ask for documentation relative to the
pregnant/parenting student’s status beyond what would be required for other medical conditions. If
a student would like to file a complaint for discrimination due to his or her pregnant/parenting
status, please contact the TAMIU Title IX Coordinator (Lorissa M. Cortez, 5201 University
Boulevard, KLM 159B, Laredo, TX 78041,[email protected], 956.326.2857) and/or the Office of
Civil Rights (Dallas Office, U.S. Department of Education, 1999 Bryan Street, Suite 1620, Dallas, TX
75201-6810, 214.661.9600). You can also report it on TAMIU’s anonymous electronic reporting
site: www.tamiu.edu/reportit.

TAMIU advises a pregnant/parenting student to notify their professor once the student is aware
that accommodations for such will be necessary. It is recommended that the student and professor
develop a reasonable plan for the student’s completion of missed coursework or assignments. The
Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity (Lorissa M. Cortez, [email protected]) can
assist the student and professor in working out the reasonable accommodations. For other
questions or concerns regarding Title IX compliance related to pregnant/parenting students at the
University, contact the Title IX Coordinator. In the event that a student will need a leave of absence
for a substantial period of time, TAMIU urges the student to consider a Leave of Absence (LOA) as
outlined in the TAMIU Student Handbook. As part of our efforts to assist and encourage all
students towards graduation, TAMIU provides LOA’s for students, including pregnant/parenting
students, in accordance with the Attendance Rule and the Student LOA Rule. Both rules can be
found in the TAMIU Student Handbook (https://www.tamiu.edu/scce/studenthandbook.shtml).

Anti-Discrimination/Title IX
TAMIU does not discriminate or permit harassment against any individual on the basis of race,
color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual
orientation or gender identity in admissions, educational programs, or employment. If you would
like to file a complaint relative to Title IX or any civil rights violation, please contact the TAMIU
Director of Equal Opportunity and Diversity/Title IX Coordinator, Lorissa M. Cortez, 5201
University Boulevard, Killam Library 159B, Laredo, TX 78041,[email protected], 956.326.2857,
via the anonymous electronic reporting website, ReportIt, at www.tamiu.edu/reportit , and/or the
Office of Civil Rights (Dallas Office), U.S. Department of Education, 1999 Bryan Street, Suite 1620,
Dallas, TX 75201-6810, 214.661.9600.

Incompletes

Students who are unable to complete a course should withdraw from the course before the final date
for withdrawal and receive a “W.” To qualify for an “incomplete” and thus have the opportunity to
complete the course at a later date, a student must meet the following criteria:

1) The student must have completed 90% of the course work assigned before the final date for
withdrawing from a course with a “W”, and the student must be passing the course;
2) The student cannot complete the course because an accident, an illness, or a traumatic
personal or family event occurred after the final date for withdrawal from a course;
3) The student must sign an “Incomplete Grade Contract” and secure signatures of approval
from the professor and the college dean.
4) The student must agree to complete the missing course work before the end of the next long
semester; failure to meet this deadline will cause the “I” to automatically be converted to an “F”;
extensions to this deadline may be granted by the dean of the college. This is the general policy
regarding the circumstances under which an “incomplete” may be granted, but under exceptional
circumstances, a student may receive an incomplete who does not meet all of the criteria above if
the faculty member, department chair, and dean recommend it.

WIN Contracts

WIN Contracts are offered only under exceptional circumstances and are limited to seniors. Only
courses offered by full-time TAMIU faculty or TAMIU instructors are eligible to be contracted for
the WIN requirement. However, a WIN contract for a course taught by an adjunct may be approved,
with special permission from the department chair and dean. Students must seek approval before
beginning any work for the WIN Contract. No student will contract more than one course per
semester. Summer WIN Contracts must continue through both summer sessions.

Student Responsibility for Withdrawing from a Course

It is the responsibility of the student to drop the course before the final date for withdrawal from a
course. Faculty members, in fact, may not drop a student from a course without getting the
approval of their department chair and dean.
Independent Study Course

Independent Study (IS) courses are offered only under exceptional circumstances. Required courses
intended to build academic skills may not be taken as IS (e.g., clinical supervision and internships).
No student will take more than one IS course per semester. Moreover, IS courses are limited to
seniors and graduate students. Summer IS course must continue through both summer sessions.

Grade Changes & Appeals

Faculty are authorized to change final grades only when they have committed a computational error
or an error in recording a grade, and they must receive the approval of their department chairs and
the dean to change the grade. As part of that approval, they must attach a detailed explanation of
the reason for the mistake. Only in rare cases would another reason be entertained as legitimate for
a grade change. A student who is unhappy with his or her grade on an assignment must discuss the
situation with the faculty member teaching the course. If students believe that they have been
graded unfairly, they have the right to appeal the grade using a grade appeal process as described in
the Student Handbook and in the Faculty Handbook.

Final Examination

All courses in all colleges must include a comprehensive exam or performance and be given on the
date and time specified by the Academic Calendar and the Final Exam schedule published by the
Registrar’s Office. In the College of Arts & Sciences all final exams must contain a written
component. The written component should comprise at least 20% of the final exam grade.
Exceptions to this policy must receive the approval of the department chair and the dean at the
beginning of the semester.

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Support Services
To receive free tutoring in most subjects, including help with writing skills:

Academic Center of Excellence: Cowart 203 and 204 (326-2723)

To receive academic advising for freshmen, transfer students, and select others:

Advising & Retention Center: ZSC 222 (326-2886)

To receive academic advising for all other students, by college:

A. R. Sanchez, Jr., School of Business Advising: WHT 204 C and 213 A (326-2483 / 2489)
College of Arts & Sciences Advising: ACI 3rd floor ([email protected])
College of Education Advising: Pellegrino 3rd floor (326-2427 /3148)

College of Nursing & Health Sciences Advising: CNS 111 (326-3269 /3110/ 3277)

University College: Advising & Retention Center (see above)

To receive personal counseling:

Student Counseling Services: Student Center 128 (326-2230)

To receive health services:

Student Health Services: Student Center 125 (326-2235)