 I just wanted to give you a quick introduction to how this course is going to work and some things you might want to pay attention to in order to be successful. This is a hybrid course, so your lecture material will be found online through your Blackboard course, it will be supplemented by your textbook, you'll have assigned readings, and then also you'll have your laboratory time, which will be scheduled at your convenience at the Science Skills Laboratory. You'll find instructions for doing that also in your Blackboard course. The course is set up in a series of seven modules and you'll see in your course outline your course roadmap that each module is set up to take one to two weeks, so module one is two weeks, module two is also two weeks, module three is only one week, so you'll need to pay attention when you're looking at a module whether or not it's supposed to take you two weeks or simply one week. In the lecture portion of this course roadmap you'll find the lessons that you need to click on through your Blackboard course in order to have the material to watch the videos and to supplement the readings in your textbook. These lessons will also tell you what those readings are in the textbook, so if you go to your first module to part one you'll see where these lessons are located and what you need to read to go along with them. All the way over here in this document are your required lab exercises for that module. So you'll have a lab orientation, an introduction to lab equipment, and a micro pipetting lab that are all due within the first two weeks. You'll have to complete them during module one. At the end of module one and at the end of every module you'll have a test, so you'll have to have completed all of these lessons, completed all of the readings, and completed the required lab exercises for each module by the end of the time period stated on the course outline. So it's important that you look at this course outline often and you're aware of how much time and how much you need to be doing during that module.