Syllabus
TulsaCommunity College, Metro Campus
Fall, 2005
Course: Brain & Behavior BIO 2203 & PSY 2213
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Days: Monday and Wednesday @ 8:30 a.m. MC 401
To contact your instructor
Riverside Counseling
5272 South Lewis Ave. #250
524-3300
Cell 810-9341 before six p.m.
Email: ..... In Subject write “student” or it won’t be opened!
I would prefer that you use this email rather than any others.
To contact the Division Office
Liberal Arts with Dr. Marvin Cooke @ 545-7117
Perquisites for this course
Bio 1114 & Psy 1113
Course Description
Brain & Behavior is a renewed course, cross-listed for 3 hours credit in either Psychology or Biology. Eight videos from the TV series “The Brain” accompany the course. The course covers both the biological basis of human behavior (e.g. nervous system, biological clocks, homeostasis, etc.) and the consequences of the biology of our species. ----feelings, learning, memory, thinking esp. in the malfunctioning brain.
Book
DISCOVERING BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. This is a first time texts so we’re try it! If you plan to go on with biology and/or Psy. It would be a good reference book as both fields are flowing together. We won’t do the whole book but rather “cherry pick” those areas that would be of the most benefit for you in Life. At other times, I prefer to be more practical in using articles from any source, e.g. Newsweek, USAToday, etc. that illustrate a point and/or concept.
General Education Goal Statement.
The General Education Goals are designed to ensure that graduates of TulsaCommunity College have the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to carry them successfully through their work and their personal lives. General Education Goals relevant to this course includes Critical Thinking, Civil Responsibility, and Global Awareness.
Course Objectives
The course is designed to familiarize students with:
1-Gross & microanatomy of the brain, including right & left brain difference & similarities, localizing of function & chemical transmitters
2-Functions of the brain, including movement, rhythms, drives, stress and emotion in addiction to learning & memory
3-Dysfunction’s of the brain including schizophrenia, clinical depression, Alzheimer’s and the disease of Addiction.
4-States of mind…sleep, dreaming, consciousness, and addiction
Teaching Methods
The general format of this class is lecture/discussion. Films will supplement the text.
The objective of the course is to provide the opportunity for student interaction with the information, which is an objective beyond the acquisition of information.
Brain & Behavior is an interdisciplinary course. The format suggests that students will interact with each other. Students will bring to the course the perspective of either Biology or Psychology, but usually not both. The emphasis will be on integrating in two approaches. To summarize: This is not a “typical” course and therefore will require other than typical participation from both students and teach.
The Mind cannot be separated from the Body. This clinician comes with two degrees in Biology and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and has learned repeatedly, as a clinician, the Mind and Biology interact in total to all of our experiences as Homo sapiens.
ADA Policy
Students with Special needs: students with documented disabilities are provided academic accommodations through the disabled Student Resource center (595-7115) or ResourceCenter for the Deaf and Hard of Haring (595-7428/TDD-TTY 595-7434). If any student is in need of academic accommodations from either office, it is the student’s responsibility to advise the instructor so an appropriate referral can be made no later than the first week of class. Students may also contact the disABLED student Services Offices directly at the telephone numbers indicated. Academic accommodations will not provided unless appropriate documentation is provided to the disabled student services offices to support the need.
Evaluation Techniques
There will be three exams administered during the semester. Each exam will consist of multiple-choice and true/false.
The student is required to write a series of two critiques on these articles or others that suit the student’s interest.
The critique is an opportunity for the student to select their own area of interest and discuss the contents of that article and how that particular piece of literature was of value.
Grading techniques
Basically the student will take the exam individually and then group discussion and then retake the same exam right then with the group.
Grading scale: 89.5% to 100% = A
79.5 % to 89.4 % = B
69.5% to 79.4% = C
59.5% to 69.4% = D
Below 59.5 % = F
Attendance Policy
This instructor does not take attendance as such. This isn’t high school. The responsibility and the consequences are the student’s. In addition, I will tell your mother!
MAKE-UP AND/OR LATE ASSIGNMENTS
There will be no makeups unless the student can really provide a legitimate adult rationale. The dog ate my homework or the computer ate the critique will be viewed with considerable suspicion.
Withdrawal Procedure
Any student wishing to withdraw from the class MUST go to the counseling office and sign a withdrawal form. Failure to do so will result in the student’s being assigned a failing grade at the end of the semester. There is no personal failure in withdrawing. A poor mark, like taxes, stays on a transcript forever.
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarisms claiming, indicating, or implying that he ideas, sentences, or words of another writer are your own; it includes having another writer do work claimed to be your own, coping the work of another and presenting as your own, or following the work of another as a guide to ideas and expression hat are then presented as your own. The student should review the relevant sections of the TCC Student code of conduct Policy HANDBOOK.
Academic Dishonesty or Misconduct
Academic dishonesty or misconduct is not condoned nor tolerate at campus within the TCC system. Academic dishonesty is behavior in which a deliberately fraudulent misrepresentation is employed in an attempt to gain undeserved intellectual credit, either for oneself or for another. Academic misconduct is behavior that results in intellectual advantage obtained by violating specific standard, but without deliberate intent or use of fraudulent means. The student should review the relevant sections of the TCC Student Conduct of Conduct Policy Handbook.
Tentative Schedule of activities, agenda, and /or course outline.
The instructor may change the assignment schedule AT ANY TIME by verbal or written notification in class.