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EXAMINATIONS: There are two (2) quizzes and two (2) exams.  Quiz 1 will cover the book contents of chapters 4 - 6.  Students should complete quiz 1 by the end of week 5 in the course.  Exam 1 will cover the book contents of chapters 4 - 9.  Exam 1 should be completed by the end of work 8 in the course.  Quiz 2 will cover the book contents of chapters 11, 13, 14.  Quiz 2 should be completed by the end of the week 11.  Exam 2 will cover the book contents of chapters 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, and 20.  Exam 2 should be completed by the end of week 15. 

Each quiz consists of 10 multiple-choice questions while each exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions.  Students should complete each quiz within 1 hour.  Students are NOT allowed to use any note and book to take both quizzes.  Students may use a calculator.  However, the exam 1 and 2 are "OPEN BOOK" objective type and students will have one (1) day to complete the exam.

All quizzes and exams are programmed and are located in the classroom for this course.  To access the quizzes and exams, students must send the instructor an email and request to have access to it.  The instructor will then program students’ access in.  Students will receive an email back from the instructor telling students that students are now authorized to go ahead and to access it.  To access, students will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the quiz or exam students are taking.  Students will need students’ User ID and PASS WORD.  The quiz or exam will appear on students’ screen.  Once students access the quiz or exam, students have limited time (1 hour for quiz or 24 hours for exam) to submit students’ answers.  The program provides the instructor the exact date and time that students accessed it.  The program also notifies the instructor of the exact date and time that students submitted their answers.  Thus, the program is timing students.  When students are ready, go back into the classroom and click in students’ responses and then click submit.  Shortly, students will receive the exam in their email box with computed score. Students will also know what questions, if any, that students missed, and what the correct answer is.  The instructor also receives a copy of students’ quiz or exam and score.

GRADING: There are total 100 accumulative points in the course (10 points for each quiz and 40 points for each exam).  A letter grade is determined as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70%  = Fail

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to use all types of tools to contact me. The primary tool is email. An online chat room is provided to students and faculty. I will be available in the chat room at your request. Group discussion activities may be scheduled in the chat room, depending on the number of students enrolled.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Shen, PhD is an assistant professor of biological and chemical sciences at the Mount Carmel College of Nursing. Dr. Shen is also an adjunct faculty at the DeVry University Online. He has about seven years of teaching biomedical sciences at college level. Beyond his teaching career, Dr. Shen works as a pharmacologist with research interests on drug discovery. His initial investigation focused on receptor protein regulations by drugs with different binding affinity. Further, he studied intracellular protein-protein interactions on drug tolerance and dependence. His other relevant research projects included quantitative analysis of structure-activity relationships in drug design, pharmacogenomics, and biomedical informatics on gene therapy. Recently, Dr. Shen contributes his efforts on management of scientific information systems for pharmaceutical, medical and health professionals. Dr. Shen holds MS and PhD degrees in Pharmacology from the St. John's University , New York . He receives a MS degree in Computer Information Systems from the Baruch College , City University of New York. He is a member of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Know structures and chemical properties of macromolecules such as carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
2). Know structures and stereochemical relationships of important monosaccharides and amino acids.
3). Understand confirmation and molecular model of protein.
4). Understand physiological functions of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
5). Define phylogenetic tree of protein evolution.
6). Understand biochemical components and physiological functions of cell membrane.
7). Understand mechanisms and models of enzyme catalytic activities.
8). Illustrate metabolism pathways of carbohydrates, lipids, and amino acids.
9). Describe reactions and enzymes of triacylglycerols synthesis.
10). Obtain biochemical perspectives to explain some common diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, sick-cell anemia, inflammation, and neurodegenerative disorders.