Spring Semester 20XX
Introductory Zoology
Lecture hours: 3 Laboratory hours: 3 Credit hours: 4
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Text: Hickman, Jr., C. P., L. S. Roberts, S. L. Keen, A. Larson, and D. J.
Eisenhour.
2012. Animal Diversity, 6th ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Lab Manual: Hickman, Jr., C. P., L. B. Kats, and S. L. Keen. 2012. Laboratory
Studies in
Animal Diversity, 6th ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Prerequisite: BIO 110 or BIO 111
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the
classification, relationships,
structure, and function of major animal phyla. Emphasis is placed on levels
of organization,
reproduction and development, comparative systems, and a survey of
selected phyla. This course
has been approved for transfer under the CAA and ICAA as a general
education course in
Natural Science.
Learning Outcomes/Course Objectives include: Upon successful
completion of this course,
students will know or be able to:
1. Describe the characteristics of animals that distinguish them from all other
groups of
living organisms
2. Explain how evolution accounts for the unity and diversity of animal life on
Earth
3. Describe how animals are classified using the principles of cladistics
4. Interpret and construct cladograms
5. Describe the evolutionary relationships among the major animal clades as
determined
by differences in body organization, symmetry, and developmental patterns
6. Identify the distinguishing characteristics of each of the animal clades and
provide
examples of species within each clade
7. Describe the habitats, food habits, and methods of locomotion, gas
exchange,
excretion, and reproduction used by members of each animal phylum
8. Describe the features responsible for the tremendous diversity and
abundance of
arthropods
