Discovering physiology

This optional course allows students to prepare for the animal physiology classes of the next two semesters by approaching this discipline exclusively through the analysis of historical experiments that laid the foundations for this subject. The course analyzes historical experiments on digestion, ventilation, cardiac activity, reproduction, and development. In tutorials, the experiments analyzed address nutrition, metabolism, respiratory gas exchange, blood vessels, blood pressure, kidneys, growth, nervous and hormonal communication, and immunity.

- Knowledge objective:

Establishment of the very first foundations of animal physiology based on very simple experiments that are both historically and educationally significant.

- Method objective

Implementation of the experimental approach: knowing how to analyze experiments in a structured manner by addressing the techniques used in each one, the presentation of the results, their rigorous analysis, and then a brief extension in order to place these results in the context of current knowledge on the topic addressed.

^1st session: Full continuous assessment in tutorials

^2nd session: Oral retake exam

• Videos on YouTube
• Report on experiences with Moodle

Hourly volumes:

            CM: 3 p.m.

            Tutorials: 18.5 hours