Your laboratory grade counts twenty-five percent (25%) of your final course grade.  In general, a lab test will be given at the beginning of each lab on the preceding lab.  Each lab test will be worth 10 lab points and will consist of questions in different formats, depending on the material.  Twelve "lab tests" will be given, and the lowest score will be dropped - giving 110 lab points for those tests.  However, your lab grade for the TBA labs will be based either on your work in the lab, a lab test the following week, or submitted lab report, and that lab grade will count the same as one lab test.  Note that the supplemental reading assignment is due March 23^rd, 24^th, or 26^th, depending on your regular lab day, and is worth 25 lab points.  Your final lab grade will be a percentage score based on the total of 135 lab points, i.e., your lab grade will be (lab points earned)/135.  (Note that the supplemental reading assignment counts 25/135 = 18.52% of your lab grade.) 

         You may take an essay makeup test for any of the first eight lab tests you miss at the end of your supplemental reading assignment lab, i.e., March 23^rd, 24^th, or 26^th, depending on your regular lab day, when the class has finished with the supplemental reading oral presentations.  Makeup lab tests are available ONLY at this time, and no makeup tests will be available for the TBA labs.  A person arriving late for lab has missed the lab test if the first lab test paper has been handed in already.

        Be aware that any form of cheating in this lab will result in my strongly recommending to both the university and your lecture professor as the "instructor of record" for this course that a failing grade for the entire course be recorded as an appropriate sanction.  (Be aware that this penalty has been officially implemented in this course in the recent past.)

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Professor: Dr. R. L. Winstead, Office Weyandt Room 5, Phone (724) 357-2912 (Biology Office (724) 357-2352)
                  Office Hours:  Wednesday 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Thursday 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Friday 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Lab Manual: General Biology Laboratory Manual by IUP General Biology Faculty.
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Required Supplemental Reading as assigned by your lecture professor:
                    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales  by Oliver Sacks.

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