Date

Day

Lecture Topic

Textbook Chapter

Laboratory

8/19

T

Introduction
Classification

4
(pages 87-94)

8/21

R

Evolution
Dobzhansky article
protists

1

Light Microscopy
Termite flagellates
 

8/26

T

5

8/28

R

protozoa
amoebas
apicomplexans

Live protozoans
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 1) 
 

9/4

R

No class

No class

9/9

T

6

9/11

R

Live protozoans (continued) 
Sponges
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 2 & 3)
Student Talks

9/16

T

Lecture Exam 1
Practice Exam

9/18

R

Cnidarians
Live Hydra
Planaria (Bring hardboiled egg to class)    
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 4)
Student Talks

9/23

T

Coral Reefs
Ctenophora

9/25 

R

Platyhelminthes

Flatworms
Live planaria
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 5)
Student Talks

9/30

T

Platyhelminthes

Rotifers
Embryology

Molluscs
Live rotifers  
Squid dissection model
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 6)
Student talks  

10/7

T

Mollusca

 10

10/9

R

Mollusca

Molluscs (cont)   
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 7)
Student talks 

10/14

T

Mollusca

Bring clothes for sampling in Cherry Creek
Please read before class:  Aquatic Insect Biodiversity

Lecture Exam 2
Practice Exam

10/28

T

Nematoda

12

10/30  

R

No lecture
Meet at the Butterfly Pavilion
TBA

Lecture and lab at the Butterfly Pavilion

11/4

T

Nematoda

11/6

R

Nematoda

Nematodes
Ascaris dissection
(bring dissection kit)
Live vinegar eels
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 9)
Student talks

11/11

T

13

11/13

R

Arthropoda

Arthropods
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 10)
Student talks

11/18

T

Arthropoda
Echinodermata

11/20

R

Lecture Exam 3
Practice Exam

Echinoderms
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 11)
Student talks
Review for final

12/2

T

Echinodermata

12/4

R

Field Trip to the Aquarium
(meet at 9:30 at the Ballroom entrance)

14

week of
12/8