APHY 102 Online

I am enrolled in the Anatomy 2 course (15950) online that starts this summer. I have already taken anatomy 2, but I got a C in it. The big reason was because I could only attend the class during my lunch breaks at work and needless to say I wasn't able to attend most of the classes. I'm looking forward to the online version and I think I will do MUCH better this way. I have taken online science classes w/ labs before - BIO and Chem and I loved the online format. I learn alot more from the labs that way as well because you don't have any partners to work with so you work at your own pace.

I am taking 102 online out of Columbus. I took 101 online out of Muncie and got an A so I'm hoping to do the same with 102. I started reading the first chapter we will do in 102 last night to get a head start.

Does anyone know what the ANPY 102 Lab Dissection kits have in them. My campus does not carry the lab kits and I was thinking I may be able to order it online somewhere - other than at the school. Can anyone please let me know if they have picked theirs up and what it contains. This is required for the Anatomy and Physiology II class that is offered online through the Gary campus.

Thanks!!

The lab kit has a fetal pig, cow eye, and sheep brain if I remember correctly. It also has the basic equipment needed to perform the labs. You can find the stuff online a lot cheaper than what you will pay through the bookstore.

Hi,

I am taking APHY 102 this fall and it seems that the course package has changed a little. I don't know if anyone remembers the APHY 101 cost for books and labs. It was pretty darn expensive. Now, the book store offers a new book (Edition 1) along with the lab kit for a total of 293.00. The thing is, the lab does not come from LabPaq. Pearon is providing the lab with out a manual to tell you how to dissect the pig. Makes no sense. Anyway, you get a lab manual called PhysioEX 8.0 for Human Physiology, again, no pig information. I have a feeling that the lab quizzes on Blackboard will be based on the old LabPaq format. I would like to get ahold of the lab manual for AP-2 from the previous semesters LabPaq. If anyone has this manual on CD, I would love to obtain it. Give me a price and perhaps we can work something out. I don't believe I've aquired PM privaleges on allnurses yet but I think others on the site can PM me. Look forward to hearing from someone.

Thanks

I just finished 102 online. I did not have the labpaq. In the course, there was a link for a website that showed lots of slides of a dissected pig. I'm not sure but there might not have even been a lab manual included in the labpaq. The quizzes that asked about the pig asked basic questions that you could answer by using the pics from the website, except for a couple maybe (for example, one quiz question asked whether the pig's tongue was smooth, True or False?)

Here is the link http://www.whitman.edu/biology/vpd/main.html

Some of the quizzes in online 102 had stupid questions that had NOTHING to do with learning the material. Someone in my class actually had a question on a quiz (which was about a lab that involved watching a video) that asked, "What color was the hair of the woman in the video?" I was floored. I did not have that particular question on my quiz but I think that when we are paying good money for these classes, the things we are graded on should actually check your knowledge of the subject matter. Not what freaking color someone's hair in the video was. Obviously it was a 'check' question to see if you watched the video or not, but please, if you are watching to actually learn something, you probably aren't paying attention to the subject's hair color.

Thanks csab,

I'll take a look at the sight. I'll be glad when this semester is over. I've heard so many different things about this course. All of this uncertainty is making me kind of crazy. :rcgtku:

I just finished the course this summer in an 8 week online format. It was very difficult and required a great deal of time, but if you do everything in the class sessions and really work hard on the practice quizzes you can do fine.

I just finished 102 online. I did not have the labpaq. In the course, there was a link for a website that showed lots of slides of a dissected pig. I'm not sure but there might not have even been a lab manual included in the labpaq. The quizzes that asked about the pig asked basic questions that you could answer by using the pics from the website, except for a couple maybe (for example, one quiz question asked whether the pig's tongue was smooth, True or False?)

Here is the link http://www.whitman.edu/biology/vpd/main.html

Some of the quizzes in online 102 had stupid questions that had NOTHING to do with learning the material. Someone in my class actually had a question on a quiz (which was about a lab that involved watching a video) that asked, "What color was the hair of the woman in the video?" I was floored. I did not have that particular question on my quiz but I think that when we are paying good money for these classes, the things we are graded on should actually check your knowledge of the subject matter. Not what freaking color someone's hair in the video was. Obviously it was a 'check' question to see if you watched the video or not, but please, if you are watching to actually learn something, you probably aren't paying attention to the subject's hair color.

That "what color hair" question made me so angry!!! Who cares what color hair she had?!?!

Ahhh Lennon, did you have that question when you took 102 online? I did not have it but a lady in my class told me that she had it. I thought it was utterly ridiculous.

I did have the question about whether the pig's tongue was smooth or not. Now, I admit I didn't dissect the pig. . . but even if I had, I would have been feeling its tongue with a gloved finger. . . can you really tell if it is 'smooth' thru a glove? Even if it looks 'smooth' it can actually feel a little rough or vice versa. I just thought some of the quiz questions were stupid like those. Whether a pig tongue is smooth or not has NO bearing on being a successful nurse some day, nor does knowing what color hair a person in a video had.

Yep I did have the hair color question. Luckily I'm a compulsive "open in new tab" person so I still had it open in another tab of my browser so I could just go back and look :)

I think I had the pig tongue question as well. And really, I think that would be a pretty subjective question. It might be bumpy (I don't remember) but it's certainly smoother than a cat's tongue and that's my frame of reference for animal body parts due to my veterinary history :)

Exactly, it was the subjective nature that irritated me. Whose definition of smooth? Literally smooth to the touch, or completely visually smooth on the surface with no papillae? A human tongue has the bumps but in my opinion, feels smooth. I too thought of a cat's tongue, which is very rough esp. when stroked opposite the direction of the little barbs on it. BTW the quiz said the correct answer was False, i.e. a pig tongue is NOT smooth.

As far as opening a new tab, well for the first half of the course my professor required us to use the Lockdown browser, so we couldn't look up anything in any other windows. Then mysteriously about halfway through she announced that it was disabled. A friend of mine in another section of online 102 did not ever have to use the Lockdown browser, nor did my 101 class have to use it.