BIOL 302Functional Histology

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• Half of the crap in this course (depending on what you're planning on doing with your degree) is useless. It can be very difficult especially near the end of the course to differentiate between different structures. The lecture is very helpful since Mungo will circle areas in class. Definitely do a lot of practice to do well on the exams, I would not suggest studying only the night before and expecting to get a 90. But the class is easy if you prepare yourself accordingly. The lab is brutal and a waste of time though since most of the TAs are dumb as hell. I really hope they turn the labs into optional tutorials or clicker questions for future classes since that was usually a waste of an…

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• I don't get why people below say that this course is a "GPA buster". Professor Marsden does an excellent job going through the basic tissues and then the organ systems, and gives you the basic tools to analyze micrographs. It is up to you to then take it further and find more pictures online to really test yourself. I found that exposing myself to a lot of pictures and making my own questions was the best thing to do to succeed in this course with an easy 95+.

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• If you're taking this course solely for the purpose of it being an exemption when you get to optometry (like I did) than AVOID THIS COURSE. Histology in optom is only 2 hours a week and there is no lab (everyone did really well in the course). 302 was way harder than it needed to be, and will definitely pull your GPA down. It's all visual learning and being able to memorize pictures. Think carefully before taking this course - it's challenging to do well in it, so only take it if you absolutely need to.

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• Stay away from this course like the plague, but all life science students should sit in on the lectures. The content is almost totally useless insofar as practicality, and the prof makes little effort to make it easier - as mentioned by another commenter, Dr. Marsden's slides don't do a very good job outlining what we actually need to know, especially because there is a lot to know/be able to identify. Don't get too discouraged by the first midterm. The lab I found rather useless. All in all, avoid this course is possible - it's cool finally seeing in more detail how cells make up tissues, but there are better ways to do so then this course. A GPA buster, for sure.

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• i'm ngl this course should be online or at the very least have longer class blocks because he kept rushing through the content during lecture and rarely ever finished slide decks. the course is fairly simple but studying was such a pain because you had to know the functions AND how they looked. would be way easier if the midterms and exam were still online, lab was really easy though.

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