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Significant Course: Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy (BIOL-N 261) is a college course I am taking during my first semester at IU Indianapolis. I enrolled in this class as it is a prerequisite of my degree, but its content attracts my interests too. This course outlines several topics covering systemic histology and gross anatomy of the human body with a lab and lecture class. In this course, I attend labs that are hands-on and help make the content real using models, microscopes, pictures, etc. We often play review games, like Jeopardy or Kahoot, before exams. This class takes a lot of commitment and has a lot of complex information, so doing notes, reading textbooks, filling out diagrams, and other studying techniques helps me understand the content and the human body as a whole.
Impacts
Human Anatomy teaches me numerous things about each system in the body from the smallest functional unit to the organ system as a whole. Beside all of the informational content, like each bone's several features and intercellular complexes, we truly focus on why structures are the way they are instead of what they are. For example, glandular ducts are composed of cuboidal epithelium. I would make this connection of why glands have cuboidal epithelial tissue, which allows me to understand the function of cuboidal epithelium: aiding in secretion of substances, like enzymes or hormones. This class helps develop critical thinking skills that are essential to me as a future healthcare professional who will need to apply this information to real life situations. I love learning in this class because it really feeds my curiosity about the human body & its processes and how the body works hard to keep us alive and well. Human Anatomy is just the start of my educational career and acts as the foundation of my learning for imaging sciences.
Course Work Evidence
To the left are images that provide insight to the course's range of content, my learning techniques and tools, and significant learning experiences.
These are pictures I took while learning how to use the microscope and identifying specific structures of tissues in the body. Histology slides are useful for me to understand the structural components of each organ, which I believe is one of the most significant experiences in the class.
These drawings are two of many that I do to study for this class. Drawing specific body parts allows me to implant the structures better in my memory and acts as a good recall technique for reviewing.
3-D models provided in the class are great learning tools. They allow higher understanding for me and create an accurate visual complex of the structures they represent.
The cow eye and heart (not pictured) dissection are more significant learning experiences. They provide hands-on learning about the tissues and their structures that are most similar to a human's organs. These dissections make the content comprehensive and real. Doing dissections are one of my favorite parts because it allows me to really appreciate the complexity of the human body.
Handwriting notes is the most common studying technique I use because I am a visual learner, and I remember color-coded notes very well. My memory works in great detail, and I'm more able to recall and make connections/associations between the words and their assigned colors.
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