Tuesday, April 9, 2013

CHANGES TO BIOL 2030 and HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY



CHANGE TO BIOL 2030:  BIOL 2010 (or AP BIOL credit) is a now a prerequisite for BIOL 2030. Current students planning to take BIOL 2010 during Fall 2013, will be allowed to concurrently enroll in BIOL 2030 by instructor permission during this transition. Incoming 1st year students without AP BIOL credit, should plan on taking only BIOL 2010 their first fall semester; both BIOL 2020 and 2040 during their first spring semester, and BIOL 2030 during their second fall semester. Incoming 1st year students with AP BIOL credit can take BIOL 2030 their first semester, and BIOL 2040 their second semester.

CHANGE TO HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY: Effective with the 2013–14 academic year, we will no longer offer the current two- semester sequence, BIOL 2060/61 and BIOL 2070/71. This sequence, which does not have have any pre-requisites, will continue to be offered through the Nursing School as NUIP 2060 and NUIP 2070. In order to accommodate at least some students currently enrolled in BIOL 2060, Dr. Connelly will offer BIOL 2070 one last time during the first summer session (5/13 – 6/8/13) at UVa, and will offer NUIP 2070 concurrently with NUIP 2060 next fall. Beginning with the fall, 2013 semester, the Biology department will offer a new 1 semester (4 credit) combined lecture + lab Human Anatomy & Physiology course, listed as BIOL 3559, which will be taught by Assoc. Prof. Mark Kopeny. BIOL 2010 and 2020 (or AP BIOL credit) are prerequisites. This enables us to consolidate the same anatomy & physiology topics and concepts that were previously spread out over the two semesters of BIOL 2060/2070, into a one-semester course that can be taught at a more advanced level as students are expected to have completed introductory biology. This course can be applied towards both the Kinesiology major and towards the Biology major. In order to accommodate non-Nursing students during this transition, students who are currently enrolled in BIOL 2060/2061, but are unable to complete BIOL 2070/2071, and who will have completed BIOL 2010 and 2020 (or have AP BIOL credit) will be given priority to enroll in BIOL 3559 next fall. We anticipate that the new Human Anatomy & Physiology course will only be offered once/academic year for the foreseeable future.