HLTH 201Aging and Health

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• As many other comments have highlighted, if you get a bad TA, your grades are cooked. I got a better grade on BIOCHEM and STATS than this course.
  SOME TAs are nitpickers; if they can't find something to remove marks for based on the rubric, they will make broad statements like "you COULD have added more detail here" and then deduct like 3 marks even if you met all rubric requirements. It doesn't help that the professor is her team's biggest glazer.
  It also doesn't help that the professor is JORDAN PETERSON'S DOUBLE 😭. What I mean by that is that if you ask a simple question, she doesn't give a straightforward answer. Instead, she decides to start at the beginning of the universe.... at…

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• Crystal jade = terrible TA, if you have her, then literally you will not get above a 75. Other TAs were a lot better though, from what i recall, she was the only bad one.
  Prof = terrible, she was very stingy with changing things even when she was literally in the wrong. Multiple questions on those quizzes were straight up incorrect and when I tried correcting her via an email, she just acted like nothing was wrong with the test by referencing the textbook. That textbook is literally half based on the author's personal opinions and does not reflect REAL HEALTH FACTS, which is a common occurrence in these HLTH courses.

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• Good TA? = 90+
  Bad TA? = start praying to God.
  Hated this class with all my life because of the TA's. Even if you find yourself getting consistently high 90's on everything. Get ready to be humbled by your two papers worth 25% each. Oh and if you get a terrible group (which I did) get ready to be stuck with idiots for the rest of the term who will go on to demolish your GPA. If this course isn't mandatory, don't take it unless you're into gambling.
  Goated prof tho ngl

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• Everything in this course is repetitive. The pre-class content (since it's hybrid) consists of online lectures, videos, and articles. The lecture content is mostly a summary of the same thing. And then the mandatory readings (you're marked on them) are the same content. This means you're essentially going over the same content 3 times. I'd definitely recommend doing all the content though, since the quiz questions are really specific (like asking about specific statistics from a specific video). The assignments are partially group work, partially individual, so if you don't have a good group there's still room to get a good mark.

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• Loved this course cuz its easy marks! In-class group work tested my patience many times, try to get good scores on this cuz its genuinely easy marks. Quizzes were fairly easy. Assignments definitely took more work so just prep early and focus on individual papers as they are the true haulers of your grades. Lectures can be really boring because you can barely hear the prof but they are not necessary to do well. just stay on top of content by yourself and show up for group work. Def reccommend!

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