Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Hello and welcome to our class!

This is the second part of the Introduction to Human Anatomy & Physiology course where we will talk about seven organ systems: endocrine, circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive.

Textbooks

During the term, we will use two textbooks – one for the lecture and one for the lab.

Lecture

You have two options to choose from:

(1) You can use a free electronic OER Anatomy & Physiology text posted on D2L and also found here:

              https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology

(2) You can purchase or rent 3rd edition of “Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology” written by K. Saladin and R. Farland and published in 2022; it can be a new or used paper copy or electronic text.

* This textbook comes in two versions: with Connect online resources and without it. Connect is not required for our course, and you can get a textbook without it.

Lab

You have two choices here as well:

(1) You can use a free electronic “Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual” by E. Marieb posted in D2L

(2) You can purchase “Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual” by E. Marieb, 7th or 8th edition

Class overview and attendance

Our class is set up in an online (lecture) and in-person (lecture, lab) modalities.

For our lectures, recorded lecture videos and supplemental materials will be posted online early in a week. Then we will meet in person on Tuesdays at 4:30-5:50pm (Rock Creek campus) to work with the lecture content for that week. It will include assignments, activities and assessments, and on campus lecture meetings will be required to attend.

Our labs will meet in person on Rock Creek campus on Tuesdays at 6-8:50pm, will also be required to attend, and will contain the exercises related to the lecture topic.

If you have any questions about our class, please reach out to me at olena.kolotushkina@pcc.edu