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| BIOL 230
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING PROCEDURES: LECTURE
Testing and Grading for Lecture:
The Lecture Guide, your textbook for this course, has been created as a series nesting Learning Objects. has been created as a series nesting Learning Objects. A Learning Object is basically a digital resource that is used as an element to support learning experiences. In constructing each of my Learning Objects I've tried to include:
Lecture is worth 65% of your grade in the course. Your lecture grade will be based on six lecture exams.
Lecture exams one through five will be approximately two-thirds multiple choice/matching questions and one-third discussion. Questions will directly test your understanding of the Learning Objectives provided at the beginning of each new Learning Object in your Lecture Guide. Lecture exams one through three, covering Units 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, are worth between 57 and 75 points each. There is no comprehensive final.
The remaining test, worth 60 points, is a take home exam reviewing DNA, RNA, protein synthesis, and enzymes. This exam and the objectives it covers will be passed out the first day of class. Since this is a review of topics covered in your general biology course, you will do this on your own using part of your Unit 6 Lecture Guide. Read the portion of Unit 6 included in your hard copy of my Lecture Guide. It can be found at the end of Part-1 following the Unit 2 segment. I would urge you to use the Lecture Guide in conjunction with the illustrations and animations in the corresponding sections of Unit 6 found on my web page at http://student.ccbcmd.edu/courses/bio141/lecguide/unit6/index.html.
You can print a copy of the take home molecular genetics exam if you wish at http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~gkaiser/pdflg/takehome_unit6.pdf.
Discussion/short answer questions will come directly from those objectives indicated by asterisks. Questions will test your knowledge of the factual objectives as well as your ability to apply this factual knowledge. The answers to any essay questions on exams or quizzes must be paraphrased. If a student writes an essay question word-for-word from the Lecture Guide or does poorly on the multiple choice/matching section but writes near perfect essay questions, your instructor reserves the right to ask you to orally answer the essay question after the exam has been graded.
After your exam is graded, your Score Sheet will be posted in a box located in the Microbiology Lab (D-207). Exams will not be returned, however you may go over the exam with your instructor if you wish.
No one will be allowed to make up more than one missed lecture exam during the course.
Finally each student will write a formal paper on a selected viral infection. The paper will be written following the instructions and format provided by your instructor in a separate handout and will be graded based on the rubric in that handout. The paper is worth 50 points. Selected student papers with the student listed as author may be incorporated in your instructor’s website as a “Highlighted Viral Infections” in Unit 3. Both a hard copy and an electronic copy will be turned in and the paper will be run through anti-plagiarism software so be sure it is your original work!