Affordable Learning Solutions at CSUDH

Katherine Bates, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor, Biology

Department: Biology
Office: NSM A-137
Phone Extension: x1090
Email Username: kbates

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Affordable Learning Initiatives

Show All    BIO 340: Genetics -- Supplemental Materials    BIO 440: Molecular Genetics -- Supplemental Materials    BIO 501: Scientific Literature -- Supplemental Materials    

BIO 340: Genetics -- Supplemental Materials

Fall 2011

Cost of Genetics: A Conceptual Approach: $105.29
Cost of Genetics: A Conceptual Approach Solutions and Problem-Solving Manual: $30.00
Cost to use the Library's Reserve edition: $0
Savings per student: $135.29
The Biology Department decided to utilize earlier editions of materials/textbooks to subset the costs of new textbooks. Where reference is made to materials in the primary literature, these are always available to students at no cost through the library online journal holdings.

Textbooks are available for students to use free of cost through the Library's Reserves department.
  • Choi, Jung H. Genetics: A Conceptual Approach Solutions and Problem-Solving Manual. 4th Edition. New York: W.H. Freeman. Reserves.
  • Pierce, Benjamin, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach. 4th Edition. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2007. ISBN: 978-0716779285. Reserves.
Supplemental Readings are available on Blackboard.

 

BIO 440: Molecular Genetics -- Supplemental Materials

Fall 2011

Cost of Molecular Biology, 4th Edition: $21.00
Cost to use the Library's Reserve edition: $0
Savings per student: $21.00
The Biology Department decided to utilize earlier editions of materials/textbooks to subset the costs of new textbooks. Where reference is made to materials in the primary literature, these are always available to students at no cost through the library online journal holdings.


Textbook is available for students to use free of cost through the Library's Reserves department.
  • Weaver, Robert F. Molecular Biology, 4th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering, 2004. ISBN: 978-0071112055. Reserves.
Supplemental materials are posted on Blackboard.

 

BIO 501: Scientific Literature -- Supplemental Materials

Fall 2011

Cost of Council of Biology Study Manual: $25.00
Cost of Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources: $1.25
Cost of Pocket Style Manual, 3rd Edition: $9.95
Cost of Reading Primary Literature: $14.47
Cost of Scientific Style and Format: $59.95
Cost of Writing the Sciences: $55.98
Cost of Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences: $28.38
Cost to use the Library's Reserve edition: $0
Savings per student: $194.68
The Biology Department decided to utilize earlier editions of materials/textbooks to subset the costs of new textbooks. Where reference is made to materials in the primary literature, these are always available to students at no cost through the library online journal holdings.

Textbooks are available for students to use free of cost through the Library's Reserves department.
  • Council of Biology, Council of Biology Study Manual, 4th Edition. CBE Publication, 1978. Reserves
  • Harnack, Andrew and Eugene Kleppinger, Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources, NY, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0312150235. Reserves
  • Hacker, Diana, A Pocket Style Manual. NY, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0312204884. Reserves
  • Gillen, Christopher M., Reading Primary Literature: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Research Articles in Biology. New York: Benjamin Cummings, 2007. ISBN: 978-0805345995. Reserves
  • Council of Science Editors, Scientific Style and Format: the CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 2006. ISBN: 978-0977966509. Reserves
  • Penrose, Ann and Steven B. Katz, Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse. New York: Longman Publishing. ISBN: 978-0321112040. Reserves
  • McMillan, Victoria, Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2001. Reserves
Additional articles will be handed out in class.