BME 285Biology for Biomedical Engineers

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• Lots of grade 12 bio review with some additional concepts and math. I think the prof was good at teaching, but he made the tutorials occasionally too hard and dodges questions (he’s a bit sassy). The assignments and midterm were easy, the final was tricky. Also takes 3 months to mark anything.

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• The course was designed to be helpful and engaging, however, the professor was entirely unable to deliver. The midterm included no multiple choice questions, comprised entirely of obscure short answer questions which were about small insignificant pieces of information written on one of the hundreds of slides. Any topics emphasized did not appear. With a 54% average on the midterm, the professor comes into class the next day blaming the students and suggesting we use this as motivation to "study more". The tutorials introduced new topics unrelated to lecture material, basically using this time to teach a whole new lesson which was testable. The study guide and lecture slides merely created…

  Jan 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• I guess it's a good course. Basic grade 12 biology you'd learn. Not much else to it. A little disappointed because it was just a big overview of a normal biology course you'd have in high school.

  Dec 2021 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Pretty useless course in my opinion. A lot of it is just high school review and you don't even interact with the prof. It is just mobius slides posted with paragraphs and paragraphs on content that is simply boring to go through. Fair and easy assessments thankfully and assignments were also doable.

  Dec 2021 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Pretty straightforward course. Enzyme kinetics can get tricky though.

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