Are you able to take Biology lab and lecture at the same time?

Question

I was reading someones post, he was a premed and i was looking at the courses he took.
When he said he took biology he said he took Bio 1 "and" lab. Would you think he meant biology lecture and the lab or just Bio lab. It's confusing me. Are you able to take both the lecture and lab at the same time?

Answer 1

For any science related class in university you take a lecture component and a lab component. You need both to complete the credits for the course. No the lecture and lab will not be in the same time frame. Often the lecture will be a 1.5 hour lecture 2 times a week and the lab maybe 3 hours once a week. The lecture section contains the basic facts and textbook information you need to know. In the lab section you apply these facts to a hands on biology lab. So you can think of the lecture as the ingredients and the lab section actually making the bread. Hope this clarifies your confusion.

Answer 2

It depends on your school. At my school, all lectures and labs are offered separately. They are different course numbers, have a different professor, different grading breakdown, etc. The lab class has a brief one hour a week lecture associated with it, but this is not the same as the lecture lecture (the 3 hour a week lecture).



At my school, you are not required to take lab at the same time (and you don't have to take the associated lab for every single lecture). There are some labs in which you have to finish the lecture first before taking the lab class, but most can be taken as co-requisites (meaning they can be taken at the same time).



To the other poster who said "lab" is where you do homework, I doubt they have taken a real science lab. In my lab courses, we do the experiments that were discussed in lecture. So if we learned about boiling point in lecture, we will do various experiments related to boiling point in the lab. The lab course is designed for us to see the lecture principles in real life, not for us to do our homework.

Answer 3

You always take the lecture and lab together !

Answer 4

That's the way it usually works for any lab science. Often the two together are worth four credits.