BIOL 376Cellular Neurophysiology

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• His teaching is pretty scattered and hard to follow, but once you understand the content is becomes pretty clear and straight forward. You need to understand how the variables influence each other. Once you get that, everything is very simple. Coming from someone who hated and did not understand physics, I can say that taking this course has really helped me understand electricity and electrophysiology. It is difficult to pay attention in lectures since he can be scatter brained, but he is a nice guy and is always willing to help. Do the tutorials, understand how the variables work, and the course is not as horrible as it seems.

  Dec 2017 · didn’t like it · 2 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• This class felt like a physics course it was not what I expected. Also his lecture slides and teaching style were super disorganized and I didn't understand the tutorials. It is interesting, but only take if you are comfortable with physics, specifically electricity and circuits, because it's like the electrophysiology of neurons.

  Dec 2022 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• The course itself like others mentioned is incredibly difficult to follow. Multiple spelling and grammar mistakes in the slides and a lot of hours of videos to watch. For me this course wasn't very useful and though the evaluations weren't too hard if you paid attention, you really had to focus on every single thing he said to do well. Would not recommend. Also the prof is awful and really doesn't accommodate students well at all.

  Dec 2021 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• The content is really, really cool if you're interested in the cellular functions that go on in the brain. The lab was quite cool, and teaches a lot of the underlying concepts that will be covered. The examination is based on analysis of figures from the textbook - you will want it for this class. Don't buy the courseware if you don't mind filling out a PDF instead of writing on paper. You'll need to, as he says, understand the relationships between the various variables that are manipulated. While not difficult, some people might be turned off by the physics involved in the course.

  Jan 2016 · liked it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• thought i would enjoy this course. spafford gives you all the info you need for the midterm and exam but its really not presented in an interesting way. either take good notes in class or buy the textbook and learn it yourself. a lot of people end up dropping it cuz its not a physio course, more like applied physics.

  Nov 2015 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this