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“This class is really going to be a seminar on Monkeys and Man and is aimed at adults in the Valley who would enjoy a learning experience which will be fun and exciting,” says Dr. Jim Wells, professor of Anatomy for 28 years at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and adjunct faculty at the Greenbrier Valley Campus of New River Community and Technical College, about a class he is teaching at the GVCNRCTC beginning in January.
“I taught this once before at the community college and the 10 students who took the class enjoyed it thoroughly and each has endorsed the idea of offering it again,” he added, noting the students were from the Greenbrier Valley Campus, but also from Dabney S. Lancaster Community College in Clifton Forge, Va., with which GVCNRCTC has a reciprocity agreement for in state tuition in certain classes on each other’s campuses. The class is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. for 90 minutes.
Officially listed as Biomechanics of Bipedalism (Biology 290), the course is described by Dr. Wells as a seminar in which there will be no tests, lots of discussion, slide and video programs, and only one paper which will be written at the conclusion of the course. The class can be used for serious students in the Biology and medical fields, but Dr. Wells points out that the class proves to be very enjoyable for the laymen in the study of man and monkeys.
“What a great opportunity for the residents of the Greenbrier Valley to study man and moneys with Dr. Wells,” Roger Griffith, director of the GVCNRCTC. “You would have to look far to find another community college which can offer such a class from such an expert as Dr. Wells and to be able to offer this class and the Human Anatomy and Physiology course using the facilities of one of the leading medical schools in the nation,” Griffith added.
Dr. Wells teaches his classes at the state of the art classrooms and labs at WVSOM on the east side of Lewisburg and has studied man and monkeys and their relationships not only in the college classroom, but also in the wild in Puerto Rica, Central and South America, and “really world wide.” If there is enough interest, Dr. Wells says a student-funded study trip to Costa Rica could be arranged.
A former resident of Greenville, Dr. Wells now resides in Lewisburg while teaching full time at WVSOM and part time for GVCRCTC.’
For further information on the “man and monkey” class or the Human Anatomy and Physiology class and lab taught by Dr. Wells, contact the Greenbrier Valley Campus of New River Community and Technical College at 304-647-6560 or write or visit the Campus office at 101 Church Street, Lewisburg, WV, 24901.
Dr. Wells can also be reached at the WVSOM during his normal office hours.
Other classes offered in the science field at GVCNRCTC during the semester beginning Jan. 17 include Introduction to Chemistry, General Chemistry II, Organic Chemistry, Functional Anatomy, General Biology, Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, Human Anatomy and Physiology II, General Physics, Physical Science Survey, and the labs which go with most courses offered in the sciences.
December 21, 2005
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