Faculty of Science

Model (No 12)

Course Specification : General Zoology

2010 - 2011

 
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University :Damietta University
Faculty :Faculty of Science
Department :علم الحيوان
1- 1- Course data :-
Code: 102ح
Course title: General Zoology
Year/Level: أولى علوم بيولوجية وجيولوجية
Program Title:
  • All Academic programmes
Specialization:
Teaching Hours: Theoretical: 2 Tutorial: Practical: 4
2- 2- Course aims :-
  1. Deal with the basic knowledge and laboratory-based experience for taxonomy of unicellular & multicellular acoelomic and pseudocoelomic invertebrates.
  2. Recognizing the diversity of God's creation of different unicellular and multicellular acoelomic and pseudocoelomic invertebrates
  3. Developing the skills in using the microscope
  4. Acquistion of facts and concepts on the body organs and their function of these group of animals
  5. Recognizing of the importance of this course and the other scientific courses taugh in this program
  6. Acquisition of aesthetic values through the study of living and mounted animals
3- 3- Course Learning Outcomes :-
4- 4- Course contents :-
No Topics Week No.
1 General characters and taxonomy of Porifera
2 Revision
3 General characters and taxonomy of Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa
4 General characters and taxonomy of Anthozoa
5 General characters and taxonomy of turbellarians
6 General characters and taxonomy of monogeneans
7 General characters and taxonomy of Cestoda
8 General characters and taxonomy of Nematoda
9 Practical exam
10 Final and oral exams
11 Instruments in taxonomy
12 Bases of taxonomy
13 Five kingdoms theory
14 General characters and taxonomy of Sarcodina and Ciliophora
15 General characters and taxonomy of Zoomastigophora and Apicocomplexta)

5- 5- Teaching and learning methods :-
S Method
Interactive presentations (Lectures & discussion)
Blended learning
Practical sections
Education media(over-head projector, data show,.....)

6- 6- Teaching and learning methods of disables :-
  1. electronic course

7- 7- Student assessment :-
- Student assessment methods
S Method
Practical exam
Written exam
Oral test
- Timing
No Method Week No.
1 Practical exam 14th
2 Written exam 15th
3 Oral test 15th
- Degree
No Method Degree
1 Mid_term examination 0
2 Final_term examination 45
3 Oral examination 10
4 Practical examination 45
5 Semester work 0
6 Other types of asessment 0
Total 100%

8- 8- List of books and references
S Reference Type
1 Notes covering the lecture of Taxonomy (bases of taxonomy)
2 Notes covering the practical of taxonomy, morphology and anatomy: (Acoelomate invertebrate)
3 Parker and Haswell (1995): Text book of zoology-Invertebrates- 7th ed. Printed in Sanjeev. Offset printer.
4 Pechnik, J. A. (2000): Biology of the invertebrates. 4th ed. Printed in USA.
5 Lytle, C. F. (1996): General Zoology. 6th ed. Printed by The McGraw-Hill companies.
6 http://www.sciencedirect.com/
7 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

9- 9- Matrix of knowledge and skills of the course
S Content Study week
General characters and taxonomy of Porifera
Revision
General characters and taxonomy of Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa
General characters and taxonomy of Anthozoa
General characters and taxonomy of turbellarians
General characters and taxonomy of monogeneans
General characters and taxonomy of Cestoda
General characters and taxonomy of Nematoda
Practical exam
Final and oral exams
Instruments in taxonomy
Bases of taxonomy
Five kingdoms theory
General characters and taxonomy of Sarcodina and Ciliophora
General characters and taxonomy of Zoomastigophora and Apicocomplexta)

Course Coordinator(s): -
  1. عبد العزيز عبد الرزاق عبد العزيز خضر
Head of department: -
جمال عبد الرحيم عبد الله