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BIO 160L - Immunology Lab |
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| Teaching Style |
This course is designed to guide students toward self sufficiency within a laboratory environment and to help students appreciate the limitations and challenges innate to scientific experimentation. |
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| NOTE: |
This is a rigorous 1 credit hour course, which will take up to 3 hours a week, of out of class time, to successfully prepare for.
Laboratory sessions are scheduled for 3 hours and will take the scheduled 3 hours to complete.
Some laboratory sessions may take longer than 3 hours to complete, if students are not prepared for the lab sessions or if there are unexpected reagent problems. |
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| Lab Sessions |
At the beginning of each lab session students will be given a graded quiz. The weekly quizzes are designed to ensure that all students have reviewed the lab procedures and have considered the expected results for each experiment.
Following the quiz, the material covered on the quiz and that weeks experiment will be reviewed. Particular attention will be paid to any technical difficulties of the experiments, the expected experimental results and any safety procedures relevant to the experiment.
After reviewing that days experiment students will work in teams of two individuals, or small groups, to conduct the experiments with the assistance of their instructor. |
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| Class Preparation |
In order to succeed within the course students should thoroughly review the material within the laboratory manual, prior to each laboratory session.
Students should actively think about the expected results and potential experimental problems associated with each experiment, prior to each laboratory session. |
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| Study Techniques |
To help ensure that students do well in this lab course, students are adviced to:
- chat with your instructor, early, if you have any questions
- always ask questions in lab sessions and review sessions
- read before and after every lab session
- complete all reports and questions sets;
- early, so you have time to ask questions
- study frequently, but for short periods of time
- frequently review the material
- review and follow the problem solving steps
- review all returned lab reports and questions
- write lists of the experiments and what they show
- write lists of the common reagents and what they are used for
- draw concept maps and diagrams to help integrate the experimental steps
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| Lab Reports & Questions |
Each experiment within the course will have an accompany lab report, which should be handed in during the following weeks lab session.
Students should pay particular attention to explaining their results and explaining why their experiment may or may not have worked as expected.
All of the lab reports have accompanying questions, which are designed to encourage students to think about the results from their experiments and to critically interpret their findings. |
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| Exams |
Exams will assess student's understanding of the experiments covered, their ability to design controls for each experiment and their ability to interpret experimental results. |
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