Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to review the organization of each organ system and describe and define its components.
• Students will be able to locate and describe the major organs of the mammalian body.
• Students will be able to describe the structure of organs at the histological level.
• Students will be able to recognize and describe the fundamental classes of tissues and distinguish between tissue types within each class.
• Students will be able to master the anatomy of the Human Skeletal System including names of bones, whether a paired bone is from the left or right side of the body, and diagnostic features of bones.
• Students will be able to master muscle anatomy and give the name location, origin and insertion of muscles.
• Students will be able to demonstrate accurate dissection technique and identification of important muscles, viscera, blood vessels and nerves in the cat, and structures of the sheep brain, eye and heart.
• Students will be able to identify bone markings and their normal variations on human specimens.
• Students will be able to sequence pathways of movement and flow in such organ systems as circulatory, nervous, reproductive, digestive and respiratory systems.