IB 131 is a lecture course taught in the Fall (15 weeks) and Summer (6 weeks) that covers the anatomy of the human body. This course is the main anatomy course at UC Berkeley, and is required for many pre-health programs including pharmacy and optometry. While the lecture presents material through a series of lecture slides and diagrams, the lab course teaches overlapping material by viewing physical models, preserved organs and bones, and cadavers.
Fall: Three 1-hour lectures per week
Summer: Four 2-hour lectures per week
This class is an upper-division elective, typically taken in the Fall semester of Junior or Senior year. This class is based on memorization, and there are not weekly problem sets or other homework assignments. There are three multiple-choice exams that test your understanding of the course material.
Other courses taught by Dr. Carlson:
The lab course is 2 units and offered in the Fall and Summer. It is designed to be taken concurrently with the lecture, and most of the material overlaps. The learning style of the lecture and lab are different (physical models vs. pictures on slides), so one course may help you in studying for the other. The lab will feel more time-intensive than a typical 2-unit course.
Both the lecture and lab are offered in the Fall and Summer. Both options teach the same amount of material, so the summer version is much faster paced. In the summer, lectures are Monday-Thursday with an exam every 2 weeks. Labs are twice a week with an exam every 2 weeks.
The course reader can be purchased from a local copy store, but it is just a bound copy of all the lecture slides printed 6 per page. These lecture slides are also posted on bCourses in PDF format, so save yourself some money and print them yourself! You can also use a reader from a previous semester (taught by Carlson) because the slides don’t change much.
Written by: Emmy Tian
Last edited: Fall 2018