BIOG 1440

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BIOG 1440

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

An introductory physiology course intended for first-year and sophomore biological sciences 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, BIO-AS, PBS-AS)

Comments Biological sciences majors must take course for a letter grade.

Outcomes
  • Students will be able 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.
  • Students will 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.
  • Students will be able 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: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1637 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.

  •  1638 BIOG 1440   DIS 201

    • R Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1639 BIOG 1440   DIS 202

    • R Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1640 BIOG 1440   DIS 203

    • R Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1641 BIOG 1440   DIS 204

    • R Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1642 BIOG 1440   DIS 205

    • R Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1643 BIOG 1440   DIS 206

    • R Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1644 BIOG 1440   DIS 207

    • R Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1645 BIOG 1440   DIS 208

    • R Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1874 BIOG 1440   DIS 209

    • R Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1646 BIOG 1440   DIS 210

    • R Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1875 BIOG 1440   DIS 211

    • R Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1647 BIOG 1440   DIS 212

    • F Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1648 BIOG 1440   DIS 213

    • F Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1649 BIOG 1440   DIS 214

    • F Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1676 BIOG 1440   DIS 215

    • F Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1690 BIOG 1440   DIS 216

    • F Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1691 BIOG 1440   DIS 217

    • F Stimson Hall 102
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P

  •  1692 BIOG 1440   DIS 218

    • F Stimson Hall 104
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Buchon, N

      Pesciotta, L

      Selvaraj, V

      Soloway, P