Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Welcome!!!  You DO NOT NEED BI 102 to take BI 103!!!!  If you have ever taken BI101 (or high school biology), you are ready to take BI103.  We get to learn about plants and animals plus a little about organs and how they work. This is a seriously fun class!

Lecture & Lab Materials:

*Text*  Don't buy anything!  Our textbook is OER (open educational resource) and you can access it online for free (https://openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/1-introduction). The lab materials are in our D2L shell.  You did not need to purchase ANYTHING for this class!

Attendance:

Lecture and lab meet once per week on Wed (10:30am-2:20pm) at Rock Creek Campus in Building 7.

Project-based:  This 103 is a bit unique and students generate two unique works of biology during the term. The works are based on the content and sometimes they are written papers and other times they are videos or presentations.  This is usually the students favorite part of the course.

Quizzes & tests & final: We have a quiz every week at the beginning of class. There are no tests during the term. There is a final test at the end of the term.   

Lab: We will do lab together every week.     

Homework: Homework is due every week on Sunday night.  

Everyone in the class should feel valued, included and welcome.  I can't wait to meet you and learn with you!!!! Here are a few pictures of me and welcome videos

Grading Criteria:

Lecture is worth 70% of the final grade and lab counts as 30% of the final grade.

Grades are assigned as follows:  90-100% A  80-89% B    70-79% C        60-69% D        <60% F

Please have access to the internet and a computer that can open Google Suite, Word and PDF (have a backup computer plan).  You will need to create documents in one of these formats. You may also need to convert images (gif, jpeg, png) to pdf files.  There are free apps to do this (I use the free Adobe to PDF converter app).