BIOL 351Aquatic Ecology

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• Honestly, this course was sneakily hard. Do not be fooled by the simple and short lecture slides. Every aspect of this course was application-based. This was my first ecology course, and I was really thrown off. You have to consistently connect content as the course progresses to accurately answer exam questions. Dr. Yates likes to trip his students up with the way he has his questions. GO TO CLASS. He does not record his lectures and when I spoke with him he literally told me, you have to constantly take notes during my lectures in order to do well. I ended with an 83 and that was me trying hard as a 3.9 average student.

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• This class is good, the workload is not insane. We had two small group projects, two midterms and a final. Dr. Yates is a super engaging lecturer, but doesn't put all the info on his slides, so if you don't go to class, you'll definitely miss important info. The group projects (fact sheet) were a little silly, and it almost would have been easier to do them alone. My group got docked quite a few marks for formatting even though the formatting instructions weren't super clear. Dr. Yates does only multiple-choice exams and the questions can get super specific, making you synthesize what you learned in class for an answer that wasn't necessarily covered explicitly. Overall, I really liked the…

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• Took it in the winter with Adam Yates. The lectures and content were good and I found Dr Yates' lectures to always be interesting. There's a textbook for additional info but if you pay attention in class you'll do fine without it. The only "bad" thing is 2 group assignments but it's only bad if you have bad group mates

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• Pretty easy to understand before the midterm point. Lose interest later because it moves relatively quick. Concepts are reviewed in great detail if you have Dr. Yates, he's fantastic. Two group assignments, three exams. Attendance is pretty much mandatory as there are password blocked quizzes for participation at the end of each class. You can't just memorize things for this class, you really need to understand and apply the concepts because all the exam questions are problem solving based on concepts.

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• Loved this course, learned a lot and the lectures were interesting. The research article was fun to write.

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