Elizabeth Spudich
| School: | Drexel University |
| Department: | Biology |
| Location: | Philadelphia, PA |
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Cons: Demands almost all of your time
Exams weekly and they are hard
Don't expect much free time during the term you take this
If you are considering medical school or chiropractic school, this is an absolute must take. Let me warn you, this is, by far, the hardest course in the biology curriculum at Drexel. Dr Spudich tells you this on the first day. Expect to study double digit hours every weekend because there is a cumulative exam every week. This class will beat you to tears, but if you take it at a time when you don't have many other credits, so you can invest in it, you'll learn about 5-10x the amount you learned in any other course at Drexel. I am not exaggerating. Dr. Spudich is well-qualified to teach this course, she literally knows every question you can ask.
Cons: Sometimes she looks for specific words in her short answer questions, and even if you describe the concept but miss one "key" word, you can be denied almost the entire point value.
Much better at teaching 224 than O'Connor
Cons: She is very harsh about your grading, she almost grades like a philosophy professor.
Was awkward that we switched to O'Connor for the more physiology based part at the end of the course. O'Connor is also very difficult, beware.
PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS. Do not fall asleep, and if you can record lectures. You may answer a question correctly, but miss one point that she believes is key and you can get the entire answer wrong. Find a way to condense the information to make studying for the final easier on yourself.
Cons: EXTREMELY difficult, the hardest class I have ever taken
Overall, I learned more in this class than any other course I have taken at Drexel, by far. However, this is the hardest biology class at Drexel I have ever taken. There are exams every week in lab and I would study almost every day for multiple hours and I still do not expect to get an A. Great teacher, but be ready to put in a lot of work.
Cons: dissecting a dog as opposed to an acutal human makes it harder to visualize the anatomy.
Great professor and you will learn a lot, but ALOT of work and very hard.
Cons: large workload and mostly memorization. especially for those who are no longer sophomores in the "weeding out" phase of being a bio major but due to the curriculum changes are taking it as a junior or senior. comparable to human phys, bio 218/219, or bio 214/215
Cons: The cumulative weekly exams are so annoying. Getting an A is extremely difficult.
Actually cares about her students
Cons: She's really weird but I hear that she's a great person outside of class.
Exams are doable but involve heavy memorization. (I say this because I'm not one of those people that have access to back exams.)
Recitation project was just plain annoying.
Attendance is not required. Pay attention to the minutia! Memorize all the slides verbatim or you will not get full points, I shit you not.
She insists that she will shut the door on you if you are late: Never happened! YAY!
Spell key terms correctly! I've had friends that had points taken off!
Cons: Extremely unreasonable grading criteria. Impossible to discuss exam questions because she gets so defensive. Memorize the exact phrasing on the slides not the actual concepts
But BIO 270 is extremely difficult. Like some of the others have said, you basically have to memorize every single word on each slide if you want to do really well. And there's a lot of information too. She posts slides for the entire week that range from 70-100 slides depending on what's being covered. It's tough, but think of it this way: the material covered is fascinating. It's stuff you actually want to learn about. The more you like it, the better you'll be because more will stick with you.
The final is mostly stuff towards the end of the term, don't spend more than 2 hours going over the old stuff.
The only problem with the class is that the weekly quizzes tested on information that is usually only mentioned once on the slides. Fortunately, she allows one or two quizzes to be dropped at the end of the quarter. These quizzes definitely help you keep on top of the information, especially since there's a lot of stuff that she covers throughout the ten weeks.