I’m so excited to meet all of you and start our General Histology course on August 17. Here’s a little information about our course.

Obviously, you’ve made it to our website, GeneralHistology.com. This is where all of our course stuff will reside (except for grades, which will be posted on Canvas). Here’s a quick summary of what this website contains:

• Our Home page is where I’ll post anything related to the course (student questions, schedule changes, stuff I run across that’s related to what we’re talking about in class, etc.). I’ll send the class an email each time I post something on this page so you don’t have to worry about checking it all the time. I like keeping everything here because it keeps all of our stuff in one place.
• The About page has the basic information you’ll want to know about our course. You can also download our course syllabus on this page (it will be posted soon) which is very long and boring but has all the official school policies in it.
• Our class schedule is listed on the Schedule page. You’ll also find the PowerPoint slides for each lecture here, as well as the lecture recordings (I’ll post these as soon as they’re available – usually they’re ready the same day as the lecture).
• There are a bunch of optional resources that you might find useful, including Summary Videos of each lecture, Crosswords, Kahoots (little quizzes you can take to test yourself), and Other Resources like helpful YouTube videos, etc.

If you have any questions, please always feel free to email me (kkrafts@umn.edu) – or when we start class, catch me before or after class. I don’t have scheduled office hours, because I’m teaching both first and second years, and doing a bunch of other stuff, and it’s hard to find a specific time that works for everyone. But I’m always open to setting up a meeting in person, or by Zoom if that works better.

Can’t wait to meet all of you!