Office: Faculty Suite 3531 room #7

Office Phone: 281-283-3750

Email: puzdrowski@uhcl.edu

I am most easily contacted through my email address, which I check regularly.

Office Hrs: Mondays 4:00-6:00pm, and Wednesdays 5-6:30pm, and by Appointment

I reserve the right to alter these office hours any time during the semester

Prerequisites: introductory course in physiology is required. An introductory anatomy course would be helpful.

Course Description: This course will introduce basic and advanced principles of pathophysiology. While basic physiologic concepts will be briefly reviewed where appropriate to further understanding, the focus of the course will be on disturbances in the normal physiologic mechanisms that are associated with disease.

Methodology: The material covered will be presented primarily in a lecture format. Reading assignments from the course textbook will be required. Handouts of figures, tables, or charts will be provided if they are not in the textbook.

Learning Outcomes:

· To review normal physiologic processes of the human body and relate the normal physiology to pathophysiology.

· To understand the symptoms of disease processes and the physiologic basis of these symptoms

· To gain an understanding of the physiologic rationale for diagnostic tests and medical treatments of diseases.

Required Text: Understanding Pathophysiology (4^th edition) by Sue Huether and Kathryn McCance is available in the UHCL bookstore.

Lecture Attendance: Lecture attendance is strongly advised. The exam questions will focus mainly on the material covered in lecture. However, you will be expected to do the assigned readings and any material from these readings is fair game for exam questions.

As a courtesy to the class, all pagers and cellular telephones should be set to “vibrate” during lecture. Responses to cellular phones should be restricted to emergencies. If you need to respond to a phone call during lecture, please leave the room.

Exams: There will be four exams given scheduled as shown on the tentative lecture schedule. The exams will consist of multiple choice, True/False, matching, and short answer essay questions. Each exam will be worth 100 points. The test format may be changed as the course instructor sees fit. While exam questions will focus on material covered in class, questions may also be based on information from assigned readings.

After the exam is graded and returned, a copy of the exam questions will be available. Challenges to exam questions may be submitted during the week after I have returned your exam to you, NO CHALLENGES WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS TIME. Challenges must be submitted to the instructor by email (preferred) or typed. No handwritten challenges will be accepted. Challenges to exam questions must include a detailed explanation of why the answer selected by the student should receive full credit, or why the question should be thrown out. (HINT: Challenges based on the claim, “You didn’t tell us we needed to know this” or “this question is not fair”, will not be considered.) I will respond to each challenge either in writing or by email in a timely manner.

Grades: Final grades for the course will be based on the total points accumulated from the four exam scores. Make up exams will only be given if acceptable documentation is provided to support you reason for missing the exam (ex. a signed doctor’s excuse, obituary, etc.). The total points possible for the course is 400. Your final grade will be determined as a percentage of this total (for example 340/400=85%). Letter grades will be assigned according to the scale, 90%-100%=A, 80%-89%=B, 70%-79%=C, 60%-69%=D, and less than 60% =F.

I want everyone to get an ‘A’ in the course, so study hard, ask questions, and good luck! If you feel that you are having trouble with the material, please see the instructor immediately, so that help can be provided. Please, don’t wait until the last week of the course to seek help!

Honor Code: Students will be expected to adhere to the UHCL Academic Honesty Policy. This policy is detailed on pages 85-88 of the 2011-2012 UHCL catalog. A student found in violation of this policy code will be held accountable for his or her behavior.

Students with Disabilities: If you are certified as disabled and entitled to accommodation under the ADA Act, Section 503, please tell me immediately so that arrangements can be made. If you are not currently certified and think you may qualify, please contact the Health and Disability Services Office.

Drop Date: The last day to drop the course and receive a WX on your transcript for the semester is April 23^rd .

It is your responsibility to initiate the drop proceedings. If you simply stop attending the course I will be required to assign you a grade of ‘F’. The UHCL policy regarding incompletes states that a student must be making “satisfactory progress” in order to receive an incomplete. I interpret this to mean that you must have a grade of ‘C’ to receive an incomplete (‘I’) grade for the course.

6 Drop Rule Limitation : Students who entered college for the first time in Fall 2007 or later should be aware of the course drop limitation imposed by the Texas Legislature (S.B. 1231). Dropping this or any other course between the first day of class and the census date (February 1^st) for the semester/session does not affect your 6 drop rule count. Dropping a course between the census date and the last day to drop a class (April 23^rd) for the semester/session will count as one of your 6 permitted drops. You should take this into consideration before dropping this or any other course. Visit www.uhcl.edu/records for more information on the 6 drop rule and the census date information for the semester/session.