This course provides the vocabulary, theory, principles, and hands-on experience to support the practical, clinical and technical requirements of programs that require knowledge of human systems. The interrelationships of body systems are presented so that the human body is studied as an integrated whole and emphasis is placed on homeostatic mechanisms as they relate to health and disease.   Topics include revision of cell theory; cell structure, metabolism, reproduction, levels of organization; study of the normal histology; gross anatomy; physiology of body tissues; integumentary, skeletal, muscle, and nervous systems; interrelationship and integration of body systems’ homeostasis mechanisms as they relate to health and disease.  Course specifics: laboratory study includes examination of life-size models and examination of various microscope slides.