Course materials in iCollege

Content folders contain the course materials you are expected to review, in addition to reading the course book.

Lecture and lab courses are really a single course. You study the same information in both, from slightly different views.

In A&P lecture we focus more on the physiology and in A&P lab we focus more on the anatomy. You have to integrate both courses information together for assignments in both courses (you will be tested on both anatomy and physiology in both lecture and lab course assignments). You study lecture and lab at the same time.

In Microbiology lecture we focus more on general microbiology as it relates to public health and in Microbiology lab we focus more on the techniques used in identifying microorganisms as would occur in public health laboratories. Microbiology lecture and lab are quite different and do not relate to each other as much as A&P lecture and lab do. The content between Microbiology lecture and lab is minimal. The ifnoirmation presented in those courses is generally sufficient to succeed in each of those courses when taken on their own / separately.

Lecture courses

• Each folder has a similar structure for the content listed in the folder title.
• Handouts at the top of each folder: These are to be used as the primary study material for the course for that content. They contain the images presented in class and detailed notes for each image. This is the material you should use the most for studying the content for the course.
• Recorded lecture subfolder: These provide a recorded lecture of the majority of the content (video and auido versions) and handouts to be used when using these recorded lectures. These are designed to supplement the in-class classes and are not intended to be a replacement (so no skipping class!). They contain similar information as presented in class. They might not include everything discussed in class and might include additional content that we do not have time to cover in class. Some recorded lectures have captions at the bottom and others do not have the caption feature. Non-captioned videos were created prior to the requirement for captions and transcripts. The content is still accurate, but it is not possible to add captions or create transcripts for them. These old versions will only be available if a request from the Access and Accommodation Center (formerly Disability Services) is NOT received stating that the course materials must be ADA compliant. If such a request is received, then the non-compliant course materials (most likely the video, audio, and/or transcripts) will be removed from the course.
• Additional animations and/or videos subfolder: These contain animations and/or videos Dr Hollier has reviewed for accuracy. Not everything you find online is accurate and true! Studying from Youtube or TikTok could mean you are learning wrong information. The animations and/or videos in these folders are accurate. They should be used if you are struggling to understand the topics contained within this folder. Each video is short, covering a very small topic.

 

Lab courses

• Each folder has a similar structure for the content listed in the folder title.
• Lab provides hands-on learning: It presents a summary of some of the lecture information and gives you time to work with models, histolgy slides, and/or perform lab experiments.
• You need to integrate the details of the lecture content into lab: You bring that information to lab and see how it relates to the models, slides, and experiments. As lab is where you do hands-on work, it is not a repeat of the lecture content. You take lecture class to learn the details in a non-lab setting (lab is not a lecture class).
• Handouts at the top of each folder: The exercise introductory material is contained in the first file of each content folder. As noted at the top of this page, it is summary information for what you are also covering in lecture. You need to study the detailed lecture information for both lecture and lab. Additional handouts are also included, such as histology handouts, minimum lists of structures to know, labeling handouts, some model keys, lab experiment handouts, etc.
• Additional animations and/or videos subfolder: These contain animations and/or videos Dr Hollier has reviewed for accuracy. Not everything you find online is accurate and true! Studying from Youtube or TikTok could mean you are learning wrong information. The animations and/or videos in these folders are accurate. They should be used if you are struggling to understand the topics contained within this folder. Each video is short, covering a very small topic.

 

Disclaimers

• When the requirement for compliance in a specific course is received from the Access and Accommodations Center, Dr Hollier has no choice but to remove all non-compliant course materials. If new versions of the course materials are not ready, then students will have to rely on the remaining course materials provided in iCollege and the lecture textbook. Dr Hollier is never happy when he removes course materials from a course, but Dr Hollier is required to comply with legal requirements when he receives such a notification.
• If you take a different instructor for either A&P lecture or A&P lab, Dr Hollier cannot guarantee that what you cover in the other class matches Dr Hollier's expectations for the level of content covered and/or the timeframe when it is covered relative to Dr Hollier's schedules. Dr Hollier recommends that you take both lecture and lab with the same instructor.
• If you are only in one A&P class with Dr Hollier (lecture or lab), then you will only have access to the course materials for that class. The content from the other class will be provided by whomever you take that other class with. You are still expected to integrate lecture and lab content together and to the level that Dr Hollier teaches the content at. Dr Hollier recommends that you take both lecture and lab with the same instructor.