A review and critique of relevant literature in advance of the weekly MCBD Biology research seminar. Includes illustrating the significance, identifying the key findings, evaluating data and conclusions, and proposing further directions and questions. Practice of presentation skills. Weekly meeting with seminar speakers.
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UnitsLetter
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeGraduate students only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeDr. Smith was an okay professor. He put SO much information on the slides, but would discuss each slide only briefly. I did poorly on the first midterm because there was so much content covered and I wasn't sure what was important. Overall, Bill was a bit scatterbrained but a decent guy. I liked Dr. Mike Wilton's half of the class much more.
A chill lecturer that was easy to follow. His tests could be a bit tricky. Read very carefully on each question and make sure you know what's going on in EACH slide, unless he says its not important during lecture. If you can do those two things you're guaranteed an A. Three quizzes each worth 30% of your grade. Class was joint with Wilton.
His tests are literally all trivial facts hidden on his slides, which is easy for many people, but just not for me. I literally considered dropping out of bio major because I put in so much work reading the textbook and the slides and kept getting 80 on tests, just because I cant memorize all details. I had to score 100 on Wiltons part to get A-.
Dr. Morrissey is very passionate about cancer research and it translates very well into her lectures. Her lectures are so interesting and she always makes the subject matter relevant by tying it into current research and discoveries. Exams are very fair and she is very accessible for questions. This was my favorite bio class I've ever taken!
reminds me of that one guy from young sheldon. tests were fair and lectures were interesting. just put in the effort and youll be fine. would take again
Good enough lecturer, and definitely a super nice guy who wants his students to succeed. Exams were relatively difficult, but not unreasonable.