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Syllabus

Web Resources

1. Preview text chapters, lab manual, Powerpoint presentations, web resources
2. Try online microscope simulator  [link]
3. Print out handouts for this section of course
4. Cell City bus tour:
5. Check out histology websites, beautiful images of tissues:  Univ. of Delaware [link], JayDoc (Univ. of Kansas) [link]
6. Check out Histology World:  Send Histology greeting cards, buy Anatomy Pneumonics T-shirts, Lots of Histology learning aids: [link]

• Master interactive, dynamic use of microscope

• Presentation showing how microscope slides are prepared [PPT download]

• Online MIcroscope simulator [link] (to do outside of class)

• Become familiar with  fundamental tissue types--epithelial and connective--and features of sub-types within each

• Epithelial and Connective Tissues [PPT download]  [Tegrity video of PPT]

• Read and study epithelial tissue slide samples [Wish List]
• Read and study connective tissue slide samples [Wish List]

1. Establish two basic ways in which cells organize into tissues:  epithelia, connective tissues
2. Recognize that nerve tissue and muscle tissue are unique to animals, unique in their organization and do not fall into epithelial or connective tissue categories (they will be covered in more detail later)
3. Analyze components of epithelial and connective tissues and the way each element serves the overall purpose of the tissue.
4. Become proficient at use of microscope
5. Learn to read prepared microscope tissue slides.
6. Learn sub-types of epithelial tissues with examples of each
7. Learn sub-types of connective tissues with examples of each
8. Learn to recognize basic tissue types along with cellular and matrix features of basic tissue types

Cell City bus tour:

Univ. of Delaware [link]

JayDoc (Univ. of Kansas) [link]

Histology World  [link]

College X Drive where you can see tissue images from class [Link to Tegrity video with instructions]