University :Damietta University |
Faculty :Faculty of Science |
Department :علم الحيوان |
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| 1- Course data :- |
| | Code: | 102ح | | Course title: | General Zoology | | Year/Level: | أولى علوم بيولوجية وجيولوجية | | Program Title: | | | Specialization: | | | Teaching Hours: | Theoretical: | 2 | Tutorial: | | Practical: | 4 |
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| 2- Course aims :- |
| - Deal with the basic knowledge and laboratory-based experience for taxonomy of unicellular & multicellular acoelomic and pseudocoelomic invertebrates.
- Recognizing the diversity of God's creation of different unicellular and multicellular acoelomic and pseudocoelomic invertebrates
- Developing the skills in using the microscope
- Acquistion of facts and concepts on the body organs and their function of these group of animals
- Recognizing of the importance of this course and the other scientific courses taugh in this program
- Acquisition of aesthetic values through the study of living and mounted animals
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| 3- Course Learning Outcomes :- |
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| 4- Course contents :- |
| | No | Topics | Week |
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| 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) | |
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| 5- Teaching and learning methods :- |
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| Interactive presentations (Lectures & discussion) | | Blended learning | | Practical sections | | Education media(over-head projector, data show,.....) |
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| 6- Teaching and learning methods of disables :- |
| - electronic course
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| 7- Student assessment :- |
| A. Timing |
| | No | Method | Week |
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| 1 | Practical exam | 14th | | 2 | Written exam | 15th | | 3 | Oral test | 15th |
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| B. Degree |
| | No | Method | Degree |
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| 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% |
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| 8- List of books and references |
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| 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 | |
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| 9- Matrix of knowledge and skills of the course |
| | S | Content | Study week |
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| 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) | |
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| Course Coordinator(s): - |
| - عبد العزيز عبد الرزاق عبد العزيز خضر
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| Head of department: - |
| جمال عبد الرحيم عبد الله |
