physiology classes

[neuro1617]

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Has anyone ever taken human physiology and comparative animal physiology? I had to take comp animal phys last year b/c human phys was filled by the time I registered (as a sophomore). I was going to use that as an upper-level bio elective & take human phys this year. I only need 1 of them for my major & I'm guessing there's a lot of simlarities between the 2 but I love physiology & my advisor said it's ok to use animal as the upper-level and fill in human phys under my major requirements. How different are they?

 

[neuro1617]

Has no one taken them both? Perhaps an opinion on what I should do, then? I'll add that I have the time to take it also.

 

[Deepa100]

I have not taken both of them but considered it and decided human phys was better. At our U, the only real diff is really the labs. The animal phys had a disection lab and the human phys had a simpler lab w/o disections. So, ideally, I would have taken the animal phys lab w/ human phys lectures.

 

[neuro1617]

At my uni neither of them are dissections but all the labs are diff except 2. And my animal phys prof said animal has greater breadth of material but goes less in depth while human goes more in depth w/ less breadth.

 

[div0t17]

I took both. I agree with the greater breadth/less depth and vice-versa...for instance, we learned about the pulminary system in birds (crazy), and the "pulminary" system in fish, but the professor pointed out things that are somewhat applicable to mammalian/human systems. The human phys class is just a bunch of repetitiveness from animal phys/ever other bio class i've ever taken. It's interesting, but I haven't learned anything new.

/spent 2 weeks on neurotransmission and action potentials at a surface level. boo.