Mel's Academic Collections

Introduction to the Human Body (KINE200) This course was conducted over the summer by Dr. M. Brennan Harris at the College of William and Mary. It is an excellent introduction to kinesiology and the pre-medical track as a whole. Given that it was conducted over the summer, it takes place over an accelerated time period of five weeks. As usual, the course content will be divided up in the same format as the professor chose to break up the class.  Course Content Week 1 Unit 1 - Human Health, Homeostasis, Evolution, Science, and Critical Thinking (Chapter 1) Unit 2 - Chemical Composition of the Human Body (Chapter 2) Unit 3 - Cell structure (Chapter 3: except sections 3-5 [Energy and Metabolism] and 3-6 [Fermentation]) Unit 4 - Structure and Function (Chapter 4) Week 2 Unit 1 - Chromosomes, Cell Division, and Cell Cycle (Chapter 16) Unit 2 - Principles of Heredity (Chapter 17) Unit 3 - Transcription, Translation, and Gene Expression (Chapter 18) Week 3 Unit 1 - Regulation of Food Intake a