| 00:03 | so welcome. This is the first for biology 41 3. And |
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| 00:07 | what we're doing in this, brief lecture is to kind of give |
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| 00:12 | an overview of what to expect from course what things you need to get |
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| 00:16 | how the course runs. And um, you know, if you |
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| 00:21 | to, you can always pause a , write things down, do whatever |
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| 00:23 | need at the end of this After you watch it. There is |
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| 00:29 | quiz or assessment online on blackboard that need to do to let me know |
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| 00:35 | you've actually watched and learn what you to know for the course. So |
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| 00:41 | are either in the Monday class with . Wednesday class. We meet at |
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| 00:45 | a.m. 10 a. M. On days that I'm gonna lay out for |
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| 00:50 | there specific days that you show and then their specific days where you |
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| 00:54 | have to watch a video like And so in the middle of |
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| 00:58 | um, that's where we're gonna have classes where you do actually have to |
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| 01:04 | up from 9 to 10 a.m. So you're in the Monday class. You |
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| 01:07 | to the Monday class on Wednesday, go to the Wednesday class. This |
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| 01:11 | be done online through Microsoft teams. I'm Dr Wayne Theory. Easy way |
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| 01:17 | get in touch with me if you to, is by my email. |
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| 01:20 | because I have a teaching assistant, would prefer if you actually talk to |
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| 01:26 | TA first, and then if he to, he can pull me in |
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| 01:30 | we can have ah, group So our ta is Richard sewed this |
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| 01:35 | ? He can be contacted by email his email address. It's RS owed |
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| 01:40 | central. Wh dot e d So there you go. All |
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| 01:45 | Um, we can do office Historically, for this class, |
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| 01:50 | I think I've only met with one over, I don't know, nine |
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| 01:55 | , so you probably don't need to that. So if if you |
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| 01:59 | we you can email me or Richard weaken. Either of us could set |
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| 02:03 | in time to meet with you, , for the class. But the |
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| 02:07 | news, This is not a class particularly difficult or particularly hard. It |
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| 02:12 | going to require you to work for brief period. But given that this |
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| 02:17 | like eight classes out of a 14 semester, I think you're gonna be |
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| 02:23 | happy with with the requirements. So we begin just some general policy |
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| 02:29 | Anything you need, you can uh, directly through the U H |
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| 02:34 | . Just make sure you go to search at the very top to that |
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| 02:38 | magnifying glass type in whatever the keywords . Usually it will be one of |
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| 02:42 | first two things that hit three key , though, for example, you |
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| 02:46 | know you're dropping add dates. The day to drop from this class without |
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| 02:51 | grade is February 3rd. The last to drop the class with the W |
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| 02:56 | April 6. I will say, you're planning on dropping the class late |
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| 02:59 | the semester, talked to me first you do so. All right. |
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| 03:05 | , I would say 98% of the who take this class pass it, |
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| 03:10 | students who drop have to go through whole process all over again. And |
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| 03:14 | you can avoid doing that, then it would be to your benefit |
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| 03:19 | stay in the class. So but , that that's the last date. |
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| 03:22 | , you should all be seniors in class, so you should know specific |
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| 03:27 | of deadlines For those senior things you to dio. So one of the |
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| 03:31 | ways to figure out all these particular and stuff, including these drop |
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| 03:35 | is just using a keyword like academic . And that should pop up the |
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| 03:40 | calendar for the year. Um, familiar with the academic honesty policy. |
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| 03:46 | , that's again, you could just this Undergraduate catalog. Academic honesty, |
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| 03:52 | , is three easy way to find . But in a nutshell, you |
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| 03:55 | read the 14 or 15 pages worth stuff Real simple. Um, don't |
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| 04:00 | , cheat or steal, that's That's what it boils down to. Now |
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| 04:04 | again. It's not a big deal really a big issue in this |
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| 04:08 | I do expect you do your own . There is some collaborative stuff that |
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| 04:12 | be doing, but when it's time do your own work, I expect |
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| 04:15 | to do it, not copy someone . You use someone from a previous |
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| 04:19 | , I will nail you on Lastly, the the university does provide |
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| 04:24 | support for students who have specific You need to have that registered through |
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| 04:29 | center for Students with Disabilities, and submit your paperwork to me and I'll |
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| 04:36 | or disapprove what is appropriate for the . So if you need those type |
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| 04:41 | accommodations, make sure you go to if you don't know how to get |
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| 04:44 | . The simple search term is The textbook that we use for the |
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| 04:51 | is a freshman level textbook. It's digital, and the reason we do |
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| 04:55 | is because I don't really see a in making you buy a new |
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| 05:01 | you know, for for this class you've already bought a freshman textbook. |
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| 05:06 | problem is, is that the textbook the university uses? That freshman level |
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| 05:11 | different than the materials that are the materials that I want to use, |
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| 05:16 | is learned smart, which is kind shown ears, which is attached to |
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| 05:20 | McGraw Hill stuff. Um, so , so you can get this book |
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| 05:25 | the bookstore, or you can go the McGraw Hill website, which is |
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| 05:30 | . There's a link on blackboard that you to do that the cost for |
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| 05:34 | guys? I think it's something I don't know, 80 bucks. |
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| 05:37 | can't remember exactly. So don't quote . Get mad at me if I |
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| 05:40 | that value wrong. But what you're for here is the third edition. |
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| 05:44 | purely digital. You do not need get it today. There is |
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| 05:49 | uh, probably about three or four down the road. That's probably when |
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| 05:52 | wanna purchase it if you need to it. All right, Now, |
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| 05:56 | reason we use this, I'll get in just a little bit. All |
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| 05:59 | ? And so what you're gonna be is you're purchasing textbook with the learned |
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| 06:04 | access. The other thing you need get for the class. And |
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| 06:08 | you'll need this. Not for this or the next one, but for |
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| 06:12 | third class. You need tohave all right. And this is called |
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| 06:16 | catalytic. So you can go directly learning catalytic dot com purchase a semester's |
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| 06:22 | toe learning catalytic. Um, and what we used to do. Some |
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| 06:27 | the in class activities. I think will cost you $12 for the |
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| 06:33 | So the cost of taking this at least with the materials is not |
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| 06:37 | high. Alright, so learning catalytic the product. And then these two |
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| 06:43 | I recommend going through connect. but if you want, you can |
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| 06:48 | through another source. Just remember, probably not gonna be getting what you |
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| 06:51 | . Connect is probably the cheapest because already negotiated that cheaper price for |
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| 06:58 | Most of the materials you're gonna need gonna become, uh, you'll be |
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| 07:02 | to get through. Blackboard. This the syllabus, the policies for the |
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| 07:06 | . Any announcements I make I make there, but I usually have it |
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| 07:10 | to your email, so make sure emails connected to the university email. |
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| 07:15 | , anything that you have to do the class will be done there, |
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| 07:19 | that includes quizzes, which we will having. Um um, in the |
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| 07:24 | of semester and I'll get to that a moment. Eso everything you need |
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| 07:27 | access could be done through blackboard, , including slides so and so |
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| 07:31 | So if you don't know blackboard, click around for a little bit. |
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| 07:35 | should be able to see you will be able to see everything I have |
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| 07:38 | the course right away. I gate , meaning I allow things to appear |
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| 07:43 | necessary. So us, you the first unit will appear then the |
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| 07:48 | unit in the third unit, so and so forth. So you should |
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| 07:51 | be able to see what you need see right now, as far as |
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| 07:56 | is concerned, Um, what we is a kind of a strange |
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| 08:02 | The majority of this class is really major field test in biology. All |
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| 08:09 | , And there's a possibility we won't be taking the major field test this |
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| 08:13 | semester with with any sort of restriction students on campus that that actually creates |
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| 08:21 | problem because this exam is a standardized and they don't really have an online |
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| 08:27 | for us to do this. But the event that we do take |
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| 08:30 | So we just need to presume that that we are taking it All right |
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| 08:34 | that the major field test accounts for of your grade in this class. |
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| 08:38 | right, Now, to earn an in the class, you need to |
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| 08:42 | a least in the 50th percentile on major field test. The major field |
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| 08:47 | is very similar to the G R in biology. And so it's a |
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| 08:51 | of how well you learn your biology you're here in the university. All |
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| 08:56 | , so that's what we're looking Eso you have to be smarter than |
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| 09:00 | the country is really what it says order to get in a in the |
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| 09:04 | . All right, Now the rest your classes, based on things that |
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| 09:08 | doing in the classroom. So we're have thes quizzes and associated homework's that |
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| 09:14 | that are connected to each other, 16% of your great you're gonna be |
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| 09:18 | group projects, which we'll talk about . That's another 16%. Uh, |
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| 09:23 | really is no lecture, E. mean, so So while this lecture |
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| 09:28 | is, you know, not really . What we are doing is seeing |
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| 09:33 | or not you're showing up for the . All right, so this is |
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| 09:37 | for the group work, So you're of you're doing group work together, |
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| 09:41 | then there's an attendance portion of just up for the classes. That's 10% |
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| 09:46 | your grave And then finally, there's the first two classes. There's thes |
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| 09:53 | assignments that are gonna pay them Blackboard, That's 8% of your |
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| 09:56 | And then we wanna make sure that register on time for the major field |
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| 10:00 | . So if you don't register on , we take a point off for |
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| 10:04 | day that you're late. All so that's the general breakdown. But |
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| 10:08 | we don't have the major field test , what we do is we just |
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| 10:10 | those values for everything? All so that's that's how you're grading |
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| 10:15 | So the major emphasis for the class the major field tests and if |
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| 10:20 | then we just double up. So means you can't blow off the classwork |
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| 10:24 | the group work just in case. right, Now, how does this |
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| 10:29 | breakdown? Well, we have three in total. Alright. The first |
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| 10:34 | is what we're doing right now. you're listening to right now counts as |
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| 10:37 | lecture. So today and on depending on which day you did it |
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| 10:42 | Monday or Wednesday, that is the lecture. See orientation. The second |
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| 10:47 | is the following week, and this a video that you just listen |
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| 10:52 | It is how to read the primary . And then at the end of |
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| 10:56 | semester, prior to taking the major test, we have a third |
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| 10:59 | which is test taking tips. All , so we've already know we didn't |
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| 11:04 | classes first week, so we skipped week. We're starting in the second |
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| 11:10 | with this orientation video, and then have another one and then eight classes |
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| 11:16 | group stuff. And then finally, April 12th, that test taking |
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| 11:21 | all right. After april 12th, all. Major field test. So |
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| 11:26 | get to schedule which day you wanna the major field test, presuming we're |
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| 11:30 | it and we work from there. right, So what does this all |
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| 11:34 | like? Well, we have to assignments. All right? Really? |
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| 11:39 | kind of prep assignments. All so after this video, after you |
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| 11:42 | it at 10 a.m. All right, if you finish the video at |
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| 11:46 | 30 you gotta wait for 30 Alright. But at 10 a.m. there's |
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| 11:50 | be a small quiz or an overview that opens up. All right. |
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| 11:56 | what that means is, you go you say Yes, I've listened to |
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| 11:59 | . And these were some of the that you have to answer. |
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| 12:01 | how many classes do I have to or what? What percentage does the |
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| 12:05 | field test counts? So if you're attention, you'll be able to answer |
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| 12:08 | questions. You can answer these things and over and over and over again |
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| 12:12 | you get a perfect score. All , so that assignment is due three |
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| 12:17 | after it opens, all right? then we have two other assignments. |
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| 12:21 | right, so before, so you , so eso you'll go to the |
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| 12:27 | lecture, right? You'll listen to video, and after that video, |
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| 12:32 | next assignment opens up and it becomes before the third class. All |
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| 12:38 | so just look at the dates you to do that assignment. In other |
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| 12:41 | , it's gonna ask you to read paper and answer some questions about the |
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| 12:45 | so that when you come to class the third class, you know how |
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| 12:50 | you've already read the paper, and you'll be able to answer some of |
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| 12:52 | questions all right, or you'll be to participate. Discussion, discussion. |
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| 12:58 | same thing is true. After the class, after the third class, |
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| 13:01 | have an assignment that opens up, you to read a paper, prepare |
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| 13:05 | the class, and then it closes before class so that you can then |
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| 13:11 | in the discussions. So these are be turned in via blackboard, their |
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| 13:15 | places on blackboard for these assignments. they open up, that's where you |
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| 13:19 | it in a swell. So these assignments together are going to account for |
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| 13:25 | 16% or 8% of your grade 15 16% if you don't. If we |
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| 13:30 | have a major field test, All , so we'll just kind of focus |
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| 13:33 | here at that. So that's 8% your grade right there. Then we're |
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| 13:40 | gonna have after those first two group . This is when we really kind |
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| 13:45 | get into the meat of the This is where the class gets heavy |
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| 13:48 | six weeks, and so we're gonna doing three subjects in spring break, |
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| 13:52 | then three more subjects, all and I'm gonna talk about what we're |
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| 13:56 | in class, but outside of class have to take quizzes and the purpose |
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| 14:00 | these quizzes they're designed. There's 38 there, 30 minutes each. You |
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| 14:05 | to take him any time between 10 6 p.m. On your class day. |
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| 14:10 | right, So if you're in the class, you take it after between |
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| 14:13 | a.m. and 6 p.m. All right. these quizzes are there to show you |
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| 14:19 | the major field test feels like, the pace is like, what the |
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| 14:24 | were like, so that when it time to take the major field test |
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| 14:28 | gone through and you practice the type questions for a particular topic, |
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| 14:34 | so each topic aligns with the textbook the stuff that you're talking in |
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| 14:40 | So the 1st 1st quiz and the subject in classes basically biochemistry. The |
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| 14:46 | subject is a physiology. The third is genetics forces evolution. Fifth is |
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| 14:53 | , sixes, plant biology. All . And so that first quiz is |
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| 14:58 | be basically biochemistry. General biochemistry. not talking difficult biochemistry, but it's |
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| 15:03 | baseline knowledge of Did you learn this of biology? All right, So |
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| 15:08 | what this quizzes are. So you need you. You you do need |
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| 15:12 | do these. Now everybody has to these quizzes. There's no no |
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| 15:17 | If you miss the quiz, you a zero. You have to earn |
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| 15:22 | 75th percentile. Alright, so for questions, it's not. You have |
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| 15:27 | get a 75% of those questions, . It's what the national averages for |
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| 15:33 | type of question. And so I already posted on blackboard what those percentiles |
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| 15:38 | equal to. So I'm making this . Do not quote this number right |
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| 15:41 | , So if the 75th percentile you have to get 20 questions. |
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| 15:45 | . That's what you need in order exempt yourself from what is what we |
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| 15:50 | the follow up assignment. Alright, thatched homework assignment. All right, |
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| 15:54 | if you get 19 questions and the is 20 questions for the 75th |
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| 16:00 | you now have to do the But if you get 20 or 21 |
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| 16:05 | , correct, then you get the score that that that number represents all |
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| 16:12 | , and it's never you know, percentile is not the full number. |
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| 16:17 | a scaled score. So that's why have to look at that. That |
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| 16:21 | on blackboard to see what it So what is this Homework assignment? |
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| 16:25 | right, well, what we're really here with the quiz is we're not |
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| 16:29 | preparing you for the pace, and types of questions were also asking you |
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| 16:33 | self assess. Do you really know biochemistry or your genetics or your plant |
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| 16:39 | or whatever it is? And by these quizzes, you're really kind of |
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| 16:42 | to yourself how well you know this material. Because, remember, this |
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| 16:47 | baseline biology. This isn't asking you remember everything you learned in biochem or |
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| 16:54 | you learned in genetics or forgot in . Whatever it is, right, |
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| 16:58 | asking you, Do you have that ? And are you proficient enough in |
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| 17:03 | to say that you've learned this material right, And are you prepared to |
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| 17:06 | the major field test? And if answer is no, I didn't meet |
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| 17:10 | 75% threshold then it's probably a good to preparing to study for the major |
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| 17:16 | test in this particular area. And what the homework is the homework is |
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| 17:20 | . Learn smart, all right. so this accounts for about 16% of |
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| 17:25 | grade. So remember the quiz and homework together, it's one greater the |
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| 17:32 | . Alright, I'm gonna show you this works, all right? It's |
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| 17:35 | you do well on the quiz, don't have to do the homework. |
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| 17:38 | if you don't do well in the , you have to do the |
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| 17:41 | And this needs to be purchased by fourth class meeting because that's when you |
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| 17:46 | doing this stuff. All right, this is what it looks like. |
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| 17:50 | homework itself is about 6 to 10 of work. You'll have about 13 |
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| 17:55 | . It's almost 14 days, but roughly 13 days after you take your |
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| 18:00 | to complete this particular assignment. All , so if you got above the |
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| 18:06 | percentile, you do not need to this. But if you got below |
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| 18:10 | 75th percentile, right? In other , you're not in the top |
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| 18:15 | You have to do these assignments. right, so it's kind of a |
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| 18:20 | to say, Look, you've got to do. You got plenty of |
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| 18:24 | to do it, but because you know it, you've got to do |
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| 18:28 | . All right. Now, let's you do pretty good on the |
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| 18:31 | Alright, you get in the 80th , but you don't want an |
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| 18:35 | You want 100 because you love those . Well, you can go ahead |
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| 18:39 | do this if you want to. it's required of you. This is |
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| 18:43 | your great comes from. Your homework as the substitute for the quiz |
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| 18:50 | If it's optional, I'll take the of whatever is higher. So if |
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| 18:54 | start it and let's say you got I said, let's say you got |
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| 18:57 | year in the 80th percentile on the and you start the homework. But |
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| 19:00 | like, This is too boring and don't want to do it and you |
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| 19:03 | complete it. I'll keep your quiz . But if you get a higher |
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| 19:08 | in the homework, I'll replace your . Get great with that homework. |
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| 19:12 | . All right, so the purpose this is that it's to prepare you |
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| 19:16 | study. It's forcing you to review material in preparation for the major field |
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| 19:22 | . All right, and you'll see they match in terms of subject matters |
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| 19:27 | we saw on the quiz. so that's one of the things we |
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| 19:32 | in the class were preparing for the field test. But that's not all |
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| 19:36 | doing in the class. So while quiz and the homework are important to |
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| 19:41 | for the major field test, what really trying to do here is we're |
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| 19:44 | to try to get you to start about the biology as biologists. All |
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| 19:50 | ? And so what we're gonna have do is we're gonna have you come |
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| 19:52 | class. You need learning, and you're gonna be participating in these |
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| 19:58 | discussions. Alright, So by the of February 8th, you need tohave |
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| 20:03 | . This is the second class all right? And what we're gonna |
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| 20:07 | is we're not just doing clickers. right? There. This is the |
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| 20:11 | of clicker technology, but it moved that. It's not just multiple choice |
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| 20:16 | , although, uh, depending on the t A s at the time |
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| 20:19 | write questions in such a way that may be. Multiple choice may be |
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| 20:23 | answer, but there are different things you could do with this. I |
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| 20:26 | ask you for, um, what the most important figure? And you |
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| 20:30 | to take a picture of the figure uploaded so it allows you to |
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| 20:34 | um, beyond just a B C . All right. And so what |
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| 20:39 | gonna do is we're gonna be coming , and we're gonna be talking online |
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| 20:44 | teams in group discussions and hear what doing is we're looking at a scientific |
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| 20:50 | . So the expectation is you're going read a paper beforehand, all |
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| 20:54 | And you're going to come in and going to discuss the paper. You're |
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| 20:57 | discuss the good things about the the bad thing about the paper and |
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| 21:01 | the process, what you're doing is starting to use the language of biology |
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| 21:05 | you should write you guys air, with biology agrees. You are biologist |
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| 21:10 | definition, so you need to be to speak the language. You need |
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| 21:14 | be able to look at data and what it means, and whether or |
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| 21:17 | that the the presentation is accurate. terms of what they're doing, you |
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| 21:22 | to critique the authors. And you get to, uh, to learn |
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| 21:28 | to to play that role of of review as you're reading these papers. |
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| 21:36 | those of you who've been in you've done this. This is what |
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| 21:39 | is what lab meetings air like, ? This is what journal club is |
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| 21:43 | basically reading the literature, exposing yourself new ideas and critiquing them relative to |
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| 21:49 | you're trying to learn in the And so that's what we're trying to |
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| 21:53 | . Here is that same sort of . All right, so what will |
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| 21:58 | after what is called official Reporting That's the 12th day of classes. |
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| 22:03 | it's, like two weeks away. , really, Now it's more like |
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| 22:07 | week and a half away. I'm put you guys in groups randomly, |
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| 22:11 | ? And what we're gonna do is gonna have you in these different little |
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| 22:14 | and you're gonna participate in these group . You will have read the |
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| 22:18 | And what these groups are groups of there, 66 subjects that each of |
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| 22:22 | will serve as a leader in those . All right, so what you'll |
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| 22:28 | to do is figure out who's gonna the leader in which group. That's |
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| 22:30 | of your first assignment as a And then your participation in that group |
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| 22:36 | gonna be part of that grade. that group discussion grade that we talked |
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| 22:40 | that's part of it. All we're gonna be asking Are you |
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| 22:43 | Are you Are you contributing now? ? This doesn't mean it doesn't mean |
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| 22:48 | have to be an expert. And doesn't mean if you're leaving the group |
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| 22:50 | you have to teach, you're not that. All right. So |
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| 22:55 | you've got to think of it in of there's a role that each person |
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| 22:58 | in the group. All right, you're gonna be discussing these papers |
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| 23:02 | So would be just as if we we were if we were on |
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| 23:05 | I would be putting you guys in in the classroom. Alright. And |
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| 23:09 | each student who's serving in the leader is basically just leading the discussion. |
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| 23:13 | other words, making sure that everyone's and making sure that when there's lulls |
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| 23:18 | the conversation that you kick start the , you're not teaching about the |
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| 23:23 | You're just making sure that your group cats is actually on task and focused |
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| 23:28 | on on that paper. All At the end of class, you're |
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| 23:34 | responsible for basically telling how how well group discussed. And so that's kind |
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| 23:40 | what the leader does. And so why everyone gets to do that |
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| 23:43 | all right, And then as a of the group, what you're doing |
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| 23:46 | you're basically showing up. You're basically prepared, you're there to participate in |
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| 23:52 | discussion, and then ultimately everybody is be answering a series of questions that |
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| 23:59 | that as a group, you guys discussed the paper. All right, |
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| 24:02 | that's how we how we do And that's what the learning Catalytic says |
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| 24:07 | we're gonna ask you some very specific . Alright, So that's really |
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| 24:12 | The middle section of this. So gonna have this first lot this this |
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| 24:17 | video, another recorded video to to that are kind of practice to get |
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| 24:22 | to the idea and then six based the on these topics of biochemistry, |
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| 24:30 | , etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. then we should have one more lecture |
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| 24:35 | then you have the major field That's basically how the class breaks |
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| 24:39 | Now we meet via Microsoft teams. right, so you've done this now |
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| 24:46 | semester, so you know how to it. So you make sure you |
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| 24:48 | a working webcam and you have a . When you're in a group |
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| 24:51 | you need to be talking face to . If you needed a step away |
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| 24:55 | a second, you can hide your , or if you have low |
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| 24:58 | you can turn off the camera. generally speaking, you want to see |
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| 25:02 | people that you're talking to, and want to be able to see the |
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| 25:05 | who are talking at you. So need to be able to have those |
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| 25:09 | things. So just again to kind put that big thing, we have |
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| 25:16 | , uh, to practice discussions that described one, you're gonna be reading |
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| 25:19 | is called the measles install paper. other is a paper that Richard picked |
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| 25:23 | for you for February 15th. There's specific group leaders. Basically, everyone's |
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| 25:28 | kind of participating in kind of getting sense of how it goes. And |
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| 25:32 | the next six weeks, excluding the break. So it's three weeks spring |
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| 25:37 | than another three weeks. This is we're gonna have that MAWR leader moderated |
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| 25:42 | where you have someone guiding conversations when . So the last little bit that |
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| 25:50 | know, the major field test, right. And so again, we're |
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| 25:53 | that it's gonna happen. But there's possibility that it won't. This is |
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| 25:56 | be administered the last three weeks of . Between April 19th and May |
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| 26:01 | it's done through the Measurement and Evaluation . It's a nationalized exam, |
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| 26:07 | and there's 150 questions and it's two . So if you wondered why I |
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| 26:12 | 38 questions for 30 minutes, that's your exam for the major field test |
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| 26:20 | . All right, so this is nationalized, standardized exam. It's made |
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| 26:24 | the E. T s. These the same people who wrote the G |
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| 26:27 | E. Who owned the S. . T s who do all those |
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| 26:31 | , nasty test no one wants to . All right and what it |
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| 26:34 | is it Basically it's there to analyze help you us evaluate how well you've |
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| 26:41 | your general biological knowledge. All and so again. It's not asking |
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| 26:46 | , really deep questions. It's asking questions. So what we're doing is |
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| 26:51 | giving this to you to help to whether or not the university is doing |
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| 26:55 | good job of teaching you biology. whether you're doing a good job of |
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| 26:59 | that. It helps to also measure university versus other institutions who give this |
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| 27:07 | . Now what does it do for ? Well, you know, as |
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| 27:10 | performance improves. What that means as as our scores go up and |
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| 27:16 | up and are greater than other other institutions and professional schools start looking |
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| 27:24 | U of H students and going these guys are really, really strong |
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| 27:27 | this particular area in like in and so that increases the value of |
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| 27:32 | degree. It carries with the gravitas so good performance on the major field |
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| 27:38 | benefits you alright. It benefits the , but it benefits you in that |
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| 27:45 | Now. The other thing, if taking any of these types of standardized |
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| 27:49 | , it's just another former practice and ready for these types of exams, |
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| 27:54 | it's it's helpful to do that as . Now as I mentioned at the |
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| 27:57 | of the class, this takes up of your great. This is what |
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| 28:02 | for. And in order to get , get a in the class, |
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| 28:06 | need to earn at least a 50 being the 50th percentile on the major |
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| 28:12 | test. So you could have what say by points is greater than a |
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| 28:19 | . But I'm not giving you in unless you've earned that 50th percentile on |
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| 28:24 | major field test. In other I'm asking you to be smarter than |
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| 28:29 | the country, which I think all you can do. And historically for |
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| 28:33 | class, that's actually true. All , now, on the bottom |
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| 28:37 | you have to score greater than the percentile. All right, so, |
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| 28:41 | other words, the expectation is you're going in there and just circling. |
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| 28:44 | C C C c on the all the way down. If you |
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| 28:47 | that, you're gonna end up in bottom percentile because that's what a scaled |
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| 28:50 | will do. And then all of sudden, now you're you failed the |
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| 28:54 | , right? So notice the thing you have to in order, Pass |
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| 28:57 | class. You have to be at smarter than 15% of the country, |
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| 29:03 | right. And again, the number EFS that we have for this class |
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| 29:06 | actually fairly low, all right. it's usually people who either blow off |
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| 29:10 | major field tests. You know, other words, they don't show up |
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| 29:13 | take it or they don't bother answering . Now, this isn't a good |
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| 29:17 | , but really, what it says look, you know, for those |
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| 29:19 | you like to panic about these you can see over time the number |
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| 29:22 | people who scored less than the 15 where, really at this point, |
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| 29:28 | breaking down by death styles, but very low. Most people you |
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| 29:34 | you do pretty well. If you you, uh, pass the major |
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| 29:40 | test lows grade, you're gonna get the sea. All right, so |
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| 29:43 | the good news. You're not gonna a C minus is there's no c |
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| 29:45 | is the lowest grade you can get a C apart from an F. |
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| 29:49 | right and then the majority of And if I went back and looked |
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| 29:53 | the values I think it's in the about 70%. Alright, get |
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| 29:58 | So this is, like, really easy class. As long as you |
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| 30:02 | up, read the papers, do assignments, practice for the major field |
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| 30:07 | and then you go and you do in the major field test. We |
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| 30:11 | a lot of students who do very well. All right, so |
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| 30:16 | of the big picture. What are talking about here? Look, there |
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| 30:19 | eight class periods you actually have to up for, so show up for |
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| 30:22 | . All right? You participating in that is basically 10% of your |
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| 30:28 | So being here on time at eight at nine o'clock in the morning is |
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| 30:33 | easy money. That's 10% of your . Right there. All right, |
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| 30:37 | up. If we have a major tips, make sure you register on |
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| 30:41 | . Now for the last couple of , that hasn't been a problem because |
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| 30:43 | really kind of pushed it. But early on, I was amazed how |
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| 30:46 | people would just kind of blow off wait till last minute. And then |
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| 30:49 | of a sudden they couldn't register so why we have this penalty in |
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| 30:52 | So when it comes time to we'll let you know. Just go |
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| 30:56 | and register and do it. If cancel made your field test, you |
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| 30:59 | have to worry about anything. So is like easy mode. Just follow |
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| 31:03 | directions when we tell you follow And if you're not, if you're |
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| 31:07 | interested to staying in the university for long period of time, you know |
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| 31:11 | the's where these things are, the that you could do, you know |
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| 31:14 | can not show up if you don't up. All right, don't |
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| 31:17 | You get to take the class If you don't participate. Easy. |
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| 31:22 | that's an easy way for us to say, all right, You aren't |
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| 31:25 | what we want you to do, you get to do it again. |
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| 31:28 | right. If you don't prep for major field test and you and you |
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| 31:32 | the major field test, all you're gonna have to take the Classic |
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| 31:36 | . No one likes to do but there's a reason we do |
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| 31:40 | all right, so if you're required the homework, it's practice practice makes |
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| 31:44 | . It makes a huge difference in you perform. So if you have |
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| 31:48 | do it, do it. Don't it off. Alright. And |
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| 31:52 | make sure you take the major field . If it's required of us and |
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| 31:56 | doing it, do it. You , I had a student several years |
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| 32:01 | who had to repeat this class four the number of times, and the |
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| 32:05 | reason he had to was because he take the major field test. You're |
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| 32:08 | even allowed to take this class four they had to. He had to |
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| 32:12 | through the petition process to get permission take the class of fourth time. |
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| 32:17 | be that person. Just take the field test, do your best and |
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| 32:21 | because that's ultimately what you have this allows you to do, is it |
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| 32:25 | you to graduate. So with what I want you to do is |
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| 32:29 | want you to go. It's only we've only talked for 30 minutes. |
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| 32:32 | now have about a 30 minute Um, in about 10 o'clock. |
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| 32:37 | when that that assessment opens up going and answer. The assess. The |
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| 32:43 | on the assessment. Once you're done that, you're good until next |
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| 32:46 | And then there's another video for you watch for next week, but that |
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| 32:51 | you have any questions, email your A and he should be able to |
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| 32:54 | those questions. Thanks for |
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