Department of Biological Sciences

BIOL 13500 First Year Biology Laboratory

Session Offered:

Spring Credit 2.0 (Credit cannot be given for both BIOL 13500 and BIOL 19500 Caspie Laboratory)

Prerequisites:

Pre- or Concurrent prerequisites:      BIOL 12100 or BIOL 13100 and CHM 11500. Course restriction:  1st and 2nd semester students only.  For students in BIOL 12100/13100 sequence.

Description:

Laboratory exercises emphasizing student mastery of basic laboratory skills needed to succeed in the biological sciences; intended for beginning (first-year) biology majors.

Note:  There are 13 scheduled lab meetings, a lab practical final given during your lab meeting the last week of classes of the semester, and a written lab final given during final exam week. Your lab meeting the first week of classes of the semester is not what we call a "scheduled lab meeting," but it is an important meeting where we cover all course information and policies.

Instructor(s):

Laurie Iten

E-mail:

liten@purdue.edu

Textbook(s):

Required Lab Manual:  Boot Camp for Biology Lab, Laurie Iten

Grading:

We base your grade in this course on the points you accumulate for online lab prep lectures, online lab prep problems/questions, in-lab quizzes, in-lab assessments, final lab practical exam, and final written exam.  If you have ≥ 93.00000% of the total possible course points after you take the final practical exam, then you do not have to take the final written exam. For students in this category, the percentile ≥ 93.00000% of course points you have will be what we use for your final written exam score.  Grades will be determined with the following percentages of total possible course points. There are a total of 815 possible course points.

 

≥ 97% = A+;
≥ 93% < 97% = A;
≥ 90% < 93% = A-;
≥ 87% < 90% = B+;
≥ 83% < 87% = B;
≥ 80% < 83.% = B-;
≥ 77% < 80% = C+;
≥ 73% < 77% = C;
≥ 70% < 73% = C-;
≥ 67% < 70% = D+;
≥ 63% < 67% = D;
≥ 60% < 63% = D-;
< 60% = F

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