BISC 306 Website at http://www.sfu.ca/~fankbone/v/
INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY 306
Fall 2000 Course Outline






Professor:  Dr. Peter V. Fankboner
Phone:  291-4473
E-mail:  fankbone@sfu.ca
Office:  B8222
 
 
Week
Dates
Lectures
Laboratories
Readings
I
 6, 8 Sept Introduction & Protozoa Protozoa 1-70
II
 11, 13, 15 Sept Protozoa & Porifera Protozoa & Porifera 71-90
III
 18, 20, 22 Sept Cnidaria Cnidaria 99-186
IV
 25, 27, 29 Sept Cnidaria & Ctenophora Cnidaria & Ctenophora 187-203
V
 2, 4, 6 Oct Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes 204-257
9 Oct
THANKSGIVING DAY
  
VI
 11, 13 Oct Mollusca Mollusca 319-386
VII
 16, 18, 20 Oct Mollusca Mollusca 387-437
VIII
 23 Oct LECTURE MIDTERM LAB MIDTERM (26 Oct)
  25 Oct Annelida
  27, 28, 29 Oct
FIELD TRIP TO FRIDAY HARBOR LABORATORIES
IX
 1, 3 Nov Annelida & Arthropoda Annelida 455-652
X
 6, 8, 10 Nov Arthropoda Arthropoda
XI
 13 Nov
REMEMBRANCE DAY
  
  15, 17 Nov Echinodermata Echinodermata 683-730
XII
 20, 22, 24 Nov Echinodermata Echinodermata
XIII
 27, 29 Nov Echinodermata LAB MIDTERM (30 Nov)
1 Dec LECTURE MIDTERM FINAL MEETING DAY (4 Dec)

WEIGHTING:  1st Lecture Midterm Exam = 30%; 1st Lab Midterm Exam = 15%; 2nd Lecture Midterm Exam = 35%; 2nd Lab Midterm Exam = 20%.
 

TEXTBOOK:  Living Invertebrates by Vicki Pearse, John Pearse, Mildred Buchsbaum and Ralph Buchsbaum, Boxwood Press, Palo Alto, California.  1987.
 

LABORATORY GUIDE:  The Invertebrates:  Form and Function, 2nd Edition by Irwin and Villa Sherman, Macmillan Company, New York.  1976.
 

NOTA BENE:  If because of serious illness you are deemed by a physician to be medically unfit to sit a course examination in BISC 306 (and this must be documented), you are obliged to so inform me ASAP in writing, or by telephone.