Florida International University
Department of Biological Sciences
Biscayne Bay Campus
PCB4805 – Endocrinology
UPDATED August 23rd
Dr. Richard Brinn
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Email: brinnr@fiu.edu When sending email please include student name and panther ID in the subject.
Webpage : faculty.fiu.edu/~brinnr
Lecture Notes: All lecture notes will be posted as PowerPoint presentations in Blackboard.
Text: There is no required text for this course but there are 4 major references I will use during the semester: Vertebrate Endocrinology – David Norris – Academic Press Ed., 2007 Endocrinology – Hadley and Levine – Pearson Ed., 2007 The Endocrine System at a Glance – Blackwell Publishing., 2006 Harrison’s Endocrinology – Larry James Editor - McGrawHill
Reading assignments: You will be required to read and understand several scientific articles during the semester.
Attendance: Be prepared to participate in ALL the course as scheduled! Attendance is mandatory and students who miss often should expect to receive a failing grade. Not all material that is discussed in class will be found in the readings or slides on Blackboard, yet the exams will include it. Students will be graded on their participation, discussions and other class activities. Students should also be aware that frequent and extreme lateness in coming to class will be noted by the professor, as it is in every class. The best way to convince your instructor that you don’t care about the class is to be late or absent. Habitual extreme lateness is rude, disruptive, selfish, and immature. The correlation between high grades and punctual attendance is very high in just about all classes. Remote Courses: The lecture for this course is taught in a synchronous mode in zoom, in other words class will run live during normal class time. Taking that in consideration students should follow some protocols similar to a face to face course. Please make sure you have a work space that allows you to sit upright and use your camera and computer appropriately. Laying down in bed or using your cell phone to attend class is not a acceptable behavior. Instructors may use honorblock or any other cheat prevention software in exams and quizzes.
Help: If you need additional assistance with the information presented in this course, seek the assistance of the professor. If the office hours on the Biscayne Bay Campus are inconvenient, other arrangements can be made. Sexual Harassment Policy: The Faculty Senate voted to require each professor to include a statement about this in the syllabus. FIU’s sexual harassment policy is available online: http://www.fiu.edu/hr/eop/Forms/Policies/Sexual_harassment.pdf
Cheating or plagiarism will not be tolerated!!! : Students caught cheating during an examination or plagiarizing will be subject to the Academic Misconduct procedures and penalties.
Exams: There will be 3 major exams, article discussions and student presentations.
Learning Outcomes: After completing this course students are expected to know basic, anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry of the endocrine systems of vertebrates and be able to understand how hormones affect reproduction, behavior and other physiological mechanisms of vertebrates. Students will also be able to critically understand scientific articles. Extra Credit : The exams and assignments listed above will be the only grades you will receive for the class. Extra credit assignments will not be allowed under any circumstances, so please do not ask if you can do one. Experience shows that the expectation of being able to do extra credit simply encourages students to take regular assignments less seriously, and allowing it is also unfair to students whose schedules don’t permit them to participate in it. Also, the time spent on extra assignments takes away from time needed to do better on subsequent regular assignments.
Emergency: This section covers situations that prevent you for attending the class or/and exams. For this course, “Emergency” is determined as an unpreventable event that prevents attendance to class or/and an exam. Emergency situations are:
1.Medical
emergency with Medical Doctor’s note/emergency room.
2.Automobile
accident with police report (lack of ride is NOT an emergency case).
3.Death of
immediate family members.
Emergency also includes natural events such as hurricanes, floods, or fires that causes the closure of FIU-BBC. Make-Up Exams Make up exams will not be allowed unless you have a very good and official excuse, like a note from a doctor, hospital, parole officer, or court (not a mechanic). You must notify your Professors in advance by email and present your original official excuse within 1 week. In any case, the make-up test will consist of the following essay question: "Please discuss the key material that we have covered in class since the last exam. You will be evaluated on your ability to determine what the most important ideas and concepts are and to present them clearly and concisely." You will have 50 minutes to write your essay, closed book (no notes). IMPORTANT : If you miss any exam on the scheduled dates you must send an email to the main professor within 48 hours after the exam and show proper documentation within 1 week to be eligible for a makeup. If these rules are not followed your grade will be a zero for that exam. Grades: •Exam 1, 2 and 3 •Presentations•Other Activities (participation, article discussion)
Incomplete Grades An incomplete grade is a temporary symbol given at the discretion of the instructor for work not completed because of serious interruption not caused by the student’s own negligence. In any case, more than half of the work of the course has to have been completed. An incomplete grade must be made up as quickly as possible, but no later than two consecutive semesters or it will automatically default to the grade the student earned in the course (which is normally an F in the absence of all work completed). There is no extension to the two consecutive semester deadline. The student must not register again for the course to make up the incomplete. In order to receive an incomplete for this class, valid documentation must be provided for the reason the student is requesting the incomplete. The reason, again, must be out of the student’s control.Schedule may be subject to change when deemed necessary.
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