Online Anatomy class with lab!

[kaseyrose]

Hi everyone! I was unable to get the Human Anatomy I class at my community college here in southern California and I need to get it done this semester otherwise I won't be able to transfer to the school I want to go to. I've been looking for online classes that are 4 semester units with a lab and I haven't had any luck. If anyone knows of an accredited online program, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[TriChick]

Wow. I have taken online courses (science included) in the past and never cheated. In fact, I completed munch of my upper-level coursework for my BA online due to career and deployment demands while in the military. I would say that, in comparison, many of my online classes were equal, if not more difficult, than their in-class counterparts. In online courses, you rarely have groups or lab partners to cover your butt if you slack. Your work is yours and yours alone, and you are often graded as such. Regarding online cheating, have you ever used services like ProctorU in online courses? It's a web cam proctor and you grant them full privileges to your desktop at all times, in order to monitor your browser usage. Typically schools will require a proctor of some sort during exams. Do people cheat? Occassionally. But I think it's an incorrect (and offensive) assumption that people take online science courses to cheat their way through, or that they don't retain the information because they were sitting in a lecture hall. Succeeding in an online course often takes a lot of self-motivation. Many people take them because, for them, their schedule may not allow them to attend a course in a brick and mortar environment 3 days a week.

For what it's worth, Emory University accepts online science with lab courses so long as it's from a regionally accredited school. It all depends on the school, OP. Your best bet is to contact them directly.

[Red Kryptonite]

Crumble clearly knows nothing about how online education and testing works.

[thecareerchanger, BSN]

I agree with TriChick. I took my anatomy classes online through State university of new york, Cayuga Community College and while cheating is possible it is not easy because of the way things are structured. Exams are strictly timed (i.e. 25 minutes for 30 questions) and the program is set up where opening up other windows during exams will cause the exam to crash or send some type of alert I believe. I still had to study hard and I think it would have actually been easier to take in person (even though I managed B+ for both A&P I and II) but that wasn't an option. A&P at Cayuga includes the lab but its a virtual lab (which I actually liked), some science courses however requires lab kits where you do the labs at home. I am taking chemistry now and I had to purchase a lab kit to do the labs. Good luck OP

[TriChick]

*weren't in a lecture hall. It won't let me further edit my previous post.