PHGY 290 Investigation of Physiological Responses

Fall 2024 (On-Campus), Winter 2025 (On-Campus & Online)

Year 2

3 units

Available

On-Campus Course

Online Course

This laboratory course is designed to enable students to advance their critical thinking and practical laboratory skills through collaborative experimentation. In an integrative laboratory experience, groups of students will learn to investigate how various stimuli impact human physiological responses. The responses that will be characterized include heart rate, blood pressure, hand-eye/motor coordination and cognitive ability. Students will work collaboratively in small groups to design and execute studies that assess the interaction between physiological parameters. Students will need to progressively build their skills to be able apply various experimental techniques to evaluate the interactions between systems. To be successful, students will be need to both apply their theoretical knowledge of physiology and advance their abilities to (i) plan and perform experimental protocols, (ii) collect, analyze and interpret data and (iii) produce presentations of their findings using multiple modalities (poster, presentation, report).

Prerequisites

Corequisites:

Minimum 2nd year (Level 2) standing, registration in a Health Sciences, Life Sciences, or Biochemistry degree plan and PHGY 215.

Note: We recommend that students should have already completed a statistics course