| 00:00 | Hi to everyone. Um I'm Doctor . This is what we're gonna call |
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| 00:05 | orientation video uh for uh Comparative So Comparative Anatomy, you see has |
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| 00:12 | designation, Biology 4397. That simply a special topics course. Uh and |
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| 00:18 | next fall, um this course will have a real designation. I think |
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| 00:22 | gonna be 4326. But anyway, so we meet in the science |
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| 00:28 | It's s 119 and uh we meet 1130 to 1 o'clock. Um So |
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| 00:35 | class we'll see is gonna be designated such a way that it's gonna be |
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| 00:39 | attendance will be required. Uh If want to come and meet me during |
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| 00:43 | hours, I have office hours right class from 10 to 1115. Um |
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| 00:48 | you can't meet during that time, you can always email me and we |
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| 00:52 | set an appointment after class um to or whatever, but my office is |
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| 00:58 | 22 21 G. The easiest way get in contact me is uh with |
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| 01:02 | is through my email C Wayne at dot edu. I would recommend not |
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| 01:06 | to contact me uh using uh So let's just kind of go through |
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| 01:14 | this class is and uh what is of you. Um Some of the |
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| 01:19 | I sent via the announcement, but is more of a kind of a |
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| 01:23 | overview. So uh this course was set up for the purposes of fulfilling |
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| 01:30 | anatomy requirement, mostly for pre dental . But also it's uh kind of |
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| 01:34 | important cornerstone class for biology. And typically, what I'll see students in |
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| 01:40 | class are those who are, are the pre dental students. But um |
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| 01:46 | know, I will see some of all who are just here because you |
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| 01:49 | to learn a little bit more about organisms. And so what I try |
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| 01:53 | do is if you want to learn , I think it needs to be |
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| 01:56 | . And so I hope you're taking class because it's, it's interesting to |
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| 02:01 | . There's some sort of interest and I want you to be engaged with |
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| 02:05 | material. I don't want you to come in here and hopefully the information |
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| 02:09 | flow over you and you'll walk out something stuck. So you need to |
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| 02:13 | some degree of interaction. And so be successful at this, you need |
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| 02:18 | be someone who knows how to self . In other words, don't just |
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| 02:24 | on instructors to give you information. uh I'm trying to get you to |
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| 02:30 | how to be a learner on your . And so you're going to have |
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| 02:34 | access content that is specifically directed to . You need to be able to |
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| 02:40 | those ideas, ideas and really good are good teachers. So you will |
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| 02:45 | engaging with others and finding solutions to and to problems so that everyone is |
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| 02:51 | of learning together and teaching each other learning together. And so ultimately, |
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| 02:57 | be successful, whatever it is that do in the future, whatever profession |
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| 03:01 | go into, whether it's to be into the sciences, going into medical |
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| 03:06 | or anywhere else. Heck if you're into business, you need to be |
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| 03:09 | to um take information, discern what's of it, dis dissect it out |
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| 03:15 | then problem solve and it's not just function of this just being able to |
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| 03:20 | information back onto a test. So kind of the overall philo philosophy of |
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| 03:25 | course is to help you be that learner and we're doing it through this |
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| 03:31 | of comparative anatomy. Now, before get into what Comparative anatomy is and |
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| 03:36 | , just understand the uh some important things. Anything you need to |
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| 03:40 | you should be able to look up using the search engine on the uh |
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| 03:45 | . Just uhau look for the little uh magnifying glass and use that |
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| 03:51 | to plug in whatever uh keywords you to pull things up. So these |
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| 03:55 | things here are, are kind of of the big things. Uh, |
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| 03:59 | know your dates. Uh, many you are seniors, you should know |
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| 04:02 | , uh, deadlines are to uh, fees in for your graduation |
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| 04:08 | . Uh, you should know when drop dates are, you should know |
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| 04:10 | your withdrawal dates are, uh, thing to do is just type in |
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| 04:14 | calendar, type an academic calendar. , you should be able to pull |
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| 04:19 | um the whole thing and see when specific dates are for everything. So |
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| 04:24 | can see here the last day to the class without a grade is ord |
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| 04:28 | called the official reporting day. That be January 31st the last day to |
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| 04:32 | the class. The W would be 17th which is way towards the end |
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| 04:35 | the semester. Certainly. Uh we uh we, you should be aware |
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| 04:41 | your academic honesty policy. Uh The rule is don't lie, don't |
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| 04:44 | don't steal. But that's a real . What are the definitions of those |
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| 04:50 | ? What are the ramifications? What my rights of the student if you |
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| 04:54 | know what your um undergraduate catalog says what your academic honesty policy is, |
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| 04:59 | will be better informed. And so an example of the search term undergraduate |
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| 05:03 | , academic honesty policy. And it'll you straight to the finally, um |
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| 05:10 | you are a student with a you have accessibility needs. University does |
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| 05:14 | that I will tell you though for class, um there is very little |
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| 05:19 | room for you when it comes to exams. Um uh because we do |
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| 05:24 | here as a group exam. And , um accessibility needs that you may |
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| 05:30 | may not be able to be met by the uh the, the structure |
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| 05:34 | the course. And that is part the rules of accessibility. But |
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| 05:38 | so for you to understand that uh can type in accessibility, it will |
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| 05:42 | you to the dart center and uh you to find and helps you understand |
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| 05:48 | those things are. So, um there are some of the important policy |
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| 05:53 | . We uh do almost everything exclusively canvas. So canvas, this is |
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| 05:57 | the announcements come from. This is your syllabus is. That's where the |
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| 06:00 | policies are. Uh any powerpoint slides I'm gonna pre uh uh produce, |
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| 06:04 | will deliver there. Uh Any assignment you have, I'll link through |
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| 06:08 | I don't do any video recordings for class because of the way of the |
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| 06:11 | of the class. But if I like, for example, this video |
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| 06:15 | through canvas, um the grade book pretty straightforward. I have here inaccurate |
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| 06:20 | . Um For this course, it's straightforward. So you should be able |
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| 06:24 | track your grades pretty well through With regard to uh this course, |
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| 06:30 | we have two textbooks. One is required textbook. Uh one is not |
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| 06:34 | supplemental, but because we have C , it basically is all cost one |
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| 06:38 | . So I went ahead and did two books. So the first |
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| 06:41 | the required book is called Vertebrates. by Kenneth Kong. It's in its |
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| 06:44 | printing or eighth edition. This is your reading assignments, the required reading |
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| 06:49 | uh come from. So we do required readings. You do need to |
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| 06:53 | before you come to class. The textbook is supplemental. And so I |
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| 06:57 | think the, the first textbook, the required reading is particularly hard to |
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| 07:02 | . But I did find at times even for me, there were things |
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| 07:07 | just didn't know. Um And so picked vertebrate life because it helps flesh |
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| 07:13 | or makes more clear some of the that we're gonna be looking at. |
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| 07:17 | if you're like, you know, sitting in, in the first |
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| 07:21 | throwing family names or uh genera at , you know, certain texts and |
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| 07:26 | like, I have no idea, life actually has pictures of some of |
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| 07:30 | things and helps uh provide clear images what the organism that we're looking |
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| 07:36 | So I, I chose it as , as a text because it does |
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| 07:40 | that, that little gap in that first textbook doesn't have. So the |
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| 07:47 | textbook is a Comparative Anatomy textbook. Vertebrate Life, which is the, |
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| 07:52 | 11th edition, the supplemental is more a vertebrate zoology textbook. So that's |
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| 07:58 | of the distinction there. So you be required reading out of vertebrates. |
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| 08:02 | is supplementary reading. Should you choose do it in the second textbook? |
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| 08:07 | available through canvas? So, what the exams? Um The exams |
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| 08:14 | are scheduled for the eighth of the fifth of March, the ninth |
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| 08:18 | April and the seventh of May. I was reminded that uh I'm never |
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| 08:24 | it right, I guess is it is on Feb on April 9th. |
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| 08:28 | so, uh, there is, a really strong chance that we're gonna |
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| 08:33 | the April 9th exam to April uh, structurally within, um, |
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| 08:39 | , the class, there is a that's set aside to review. And |
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| 08:44 | what will end up happening is if move the exam to the ninth or |
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| 08:48 | , from the ninth to the fourth we'll just get rid of that review |
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| 08:51 | , um, that it becomes And so, um, we might |
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| 08:55 | it to that day. I'll, talk to you guys about that on |
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| 08:59 | in terms of how the exam is , I haven't finalized, but I'm |
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| 09:04 | 99% towards a two part exam. first half would be, uh, |
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| 09:10 | 20 minutes, uh, set aside do an individual portion. And |
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| 09:15 | um, then the second part would a group portion where there is short |
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| 09:21 | , an essay that you guys are as a group which is what I've |
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| 09:25 | in the past but I want to of do this individual part as |
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| 09:28 | Uh, as far as policy is , uh, the exams cover only |
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| 09:32 | material that's discussed in that particular I don't drop any exams. They're |
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| 09:37 | cumulative and we do the exams in classroom. So both parts would be |
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| 09:42 | in the classroom setting. Now, mentioned reading assignments. So these are |
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| 09:48 | things you read before class. So you're gonna do is you're gonna come |
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| 09:51 | class. There's pre these reading assignments already set up in um canvas. |
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| 09:56 | you gotta do is just go see pages they are. They're gonna seem |
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| 09:59 | large to you. But remember half text there that within the reading assignment |
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| 10:04 | gonna be images and stuff. So never as big as they appear. |
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| 10:08 | what I've also done is I have sets of reading uh questions. So |
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| 10:13 | each reading assignment, you're gonna see question set, a question best uh |
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| 10:19 | set. B question set. Now, my expectation is that every |
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| 10:23 | reads the entire reading assignment. But I would ask you to do is |
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| 10:29 | guys are gonna be set up in . I've already set up the groups |
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| 10:31 | you. Um If you go into , you will see the group that |
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| 10:35 | in. Um uh But what you what you'll see is um what I'm |
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| 10:41 | you to do is take your group divide those questions set up among the |
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| 10:47 | of your group and I don't care you do it. So, um |
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| 10:50 | you have a group of, of and two right now, two groups |
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| 10:53 | a group of six, you could I want two of you to do |
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| 10:55 | , two of you to do B two to do C, right? |
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| 10:58 | you're not, not everyone has to all the questions and, and, |
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| 11:02 | really what these are trying to do trying to get you to focus |
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| 11:05 | So they have some, some specific . So when each member of the |
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| 11:08 | comes in to the classroom to engage the group discussion, everyone has a |
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| 11:13 | bit of knowledge that they can contribute no one's walking in blind, that's |
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| 11:17 | purpose of this. All right. you're really kind of preparing for class |
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| 11:23 | the reading assignments and then what you is when you come to class, |
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| 11:27 | this is where you're going to discuss it was that you learned. I'm |
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| 11:30 | going to be lecturing, I'm there answer questions to help, help you |
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| 11:34 | of resolve uh problems. Uh I even have at times basically say, |
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| 11:39 | , everyone uh today what we're gonna instead of actually answering questions, |
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| 11:43 | we'll kind of do a group discussion everyone kind of answers things and we'll |
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| 11:47 | it to the board and see if can kind of solve the problems. |
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| 11:50 | there's going to be different ways that approach it. But for the most |
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| 11:53 | , what we're going to do is gonna be in your small group setting |
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| 11:56 | you're going to be answering questions based the reading that everyone can contribute |
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| 12:02 | So it's not like only one person . Question one, question, one |
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| 12:06 | require knowledge from all three of those, those different question sets to |
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| 12:11 | able to answer it. Now, does matter. So if you're not |
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| 12:15 | up to class, you're not helping group learn. Remember, you're gonna |
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| 12:19 | a test that you guys work together answering the questions, right? So |
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| 12:26 | comes to the class with their This is gonna be a portion of |
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| 12:29 | grade. So attendance matters. The is uh uh uh the group questions |
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| 12:36 | have here, 20% of your That would not be true. That |
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| 12:39 | be o sorry, that would be to 12.5%. So ignore that I |
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| 12:45 | failed to update my slide. So 20%. It's like 12.5%. Ignore |
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| 12:52 | portion right there. All right. anywhere between 6 to 10 questions based |
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| 12:58 | the reading, you're working as a to answer the questions and it is |
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| 13:02 | be turned in by the end of . So there's a time component uh |
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| 13:07 | this. So why you need to prepared? You're gonna be under a |
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| 13:12 | crunch to answer the questions. All . So I expect loud noises. |
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| 13:16 | expect people talking, communicating, looking answers. This is not a, |
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| 13:22 | divide up the questions and conquer because not designed that way. They're designed |
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| 13:26 | you guys to work as a group answer them. All right. |
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| 13:30 | in terms of how you're, the in the class is all right. |
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| 13:33 | got four exams. Um You can of them as being um 100 |
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| 13:39 | I don't know the exact breakdown, it's something like 4060 individual to, |
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| 13:44 | um uh group. It might be or 3070 something like that. I |
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| 13:50 | know exactly. But you can, exam is 20 is going to account |
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| 13:55 | a portion of the grade. Um this whole thing right here is uh |
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| 14:01 | be 80% again, I don't know that's 20% of the final, but |
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| 14:06 | 80% total. Then your class Remember you have 12.5 is going to |
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| 14:11 | the actual assignment and then 7.5 is to be attendance. Uh The one |
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| 14:16 | I would say is uh we have overview. I do this for every |
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| 14:20 | . So if this is your, orientation, you should know what I |
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| 14:23 | in here. So online there is uh orientation assessment to say, |
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| 14:29 | did you pay attention? Can you these questions about the class. All |
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| 14:33 | . Now, as far as their , there's likely gonna be a |
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| 14:37 | I haven't had a, uh, curve or likely, I'm sure saying |
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| 14:42 | has not been a curve. So time I've taught the class, there's |
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| 14:45 | a curve. Um Typically, uh see lots of A's and B's and |
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| 14:49 | couple of C's in this class. , Ds and S are reserved for |
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| 14:53 | who choose not to work. And are basically people who almost choose not |
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| 14:56 | work as well. But so typically do pretty well in this class. |
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| 15:01 | As long as you're paying attention and to learn, you should be pretty |
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| 15:04 | off, you should do just Not sure if I have anything |
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| 15:07 | the overview assignment. Um So this on the blackboard, it's canvas, |
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| 15:13 | canvas. Um So that's gonna be the uh under the modules, you'll |
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| 15:18 | it. Um There under modules, you should be able to answer straight |
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| 15:23 | . Um It's part of that, in class grade, it will open |
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| 15:28 | today at one o'clock. So it up about 18 minutes ago and then |
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| 15:32 | comes due on uh Tuesday the So you have quite some time to |
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| 15:36 | it. I would go ahead and get it done now. So what |
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| 15:40 | have left, I don't think I any other slides. So what you |
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| 15:42 | to do today is you already have assignment that's opened up. This is |
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| 15:46 | reading assignment for Thursday. So go . I would uh I, I |
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| 15:51 | kind of communicate with your group. see who your group is. You |
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| 15:55 | have a group page. You can on that group page and communicate with |
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| 15:59 | other. How you're gonna divvy up questions, start reading the textbook um |
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| 16:04 | uh read that textbook and come to prepared to answer questions. Um That's |
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| 16:10 | goal for today. Now, I also add, you'll see on uh |
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| 16:15 | a canvas. There is a video . Now, that's more for fun |
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| 16:19 | anything else. It kind of paints broader picture of some of the material |
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| 16:23 | been that this class covers. Um whole video is not perfect. I |
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| 16:29 | , this is, this is a from a, a documentary series that |
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| 16:35 | really attracted me to the sciences very on. It's called uh The Day |
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| 16:40 | the Universe Changed. It's done done James Burke. Um And this particular |
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| 16:45 | deals with the question of how uh or how we began to see the |
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| 16:52 | through the idea that life changes over that prior to very early on in |
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| 17:00 | 17 hundreds and earlier, we just everything in the in the world was |
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| 17:06 | it was. And what this addresses , how do we come to understand |
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| 17:12 | life changes? And this is kind central to the idea of Comparative |
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| 17:17 | And it addresses some of the questions are brought up in this first |
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| 17:21 | And I think James Burke does an job of storytelling. He always tells |
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| 17:24 | good stories. So if you ever get a hold of any of his |
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| 17:28 | series, they're really, really But towards the end, it gets |
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| 17:32 | , it kind of addressed the question on now that we understand that the |
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| 17:36 | changes, how did this affect how change later? And so that's not |
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| 17:42 | to the course. It's actually the coming up to that. So it's |
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| 17:46 | the 1st 45 minutes of the So if you feel like watching that |
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| 17:49 | can and if not, if you feel like watching it, that's |
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| 17:52 | It's, it's not a big I just think it's really good and |
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| 17:55 | think you'd like it. So reading , start today, uh orientation |
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| 18:02 | uh start today. Um I'll see guys Thursday. I hope everyone is |
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| 18:06 | nice and warm, you know, temperature should rise above freezing, but |
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| 18:10 | it's gonna drop again, but by it should start warming up all well |
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| 18:14 | good. So I will see you |
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