HLTH 458Social Neuroscience 2: Lifestyle and Chronic Illness

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• This class was a disaster. Both the professors and TAs have serious ego issues. The course is highly disorganized, with the syllabus being modified countless times—seemingly just to make it more difficult. Every week, there's a 40-minute discussion that you have to record and submit and to be completed outside of class, along with a 30-minute (previously 10-minute) multiple-choice quiz, which has changed format two or three times. On top of that, you’re expected to read the textbook. The workload is excessive, and neither the professors nor the TAs seem accommodating. This might be the most stressful class of my entire term—far worse than BIOL 373 and HLTH 310. Avoid this class at all costs.

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• interesting content but disorganized, no incentive to come to class and the prof has an ego issue - the prof is easily distracted and lacks accessibility considerations

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• A USELESS class n the TA'S were on fucking crack. 1 TA marked as if they were the prof like Bother, wrap it up and go home we do not care. like not were u only a student a while ago begging for marks. Like what a clown. The quizzes were dumb af because the way it was worded made no sense and sometimes we never even learned it in class. Dr.Hall was meh. AND DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE GRP DISCUSSIONS. I HAD THE MOST RETARTED GRP EVER. I was in a grp full of girls and they were so fucking dumb, like 1 would never speak, another 1 was always in her car as if she was homeless, another 1 did not want to turn her camera on as if we do not know how u look like already, the rest of us 3 were…

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• Winter 2026: 2 unit tests worth 25%, iClicker and in-class attendance worth 10%, and weekly discussions worth 40%. Tbh, it was not bad, although classes this term were at 8:30 am, it was an easy mark to get for attendance. Discussions were made in-person on the Thursday classes, and we had the whole class to do it, then do a text submission on LEARN. Discussions were basically a free mark too, as long as we attended and wrote a decent paragraph summarizing our talk.

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• The discussion component is a weekly 40min recorded video in which you need to meet outside of class. This part was so TA-dependent, as my group had a TA that graded really strictly, yet it was worth 40% of our grade. I was doing way better in the weekly in-class proctored quizzes, which still required a significant amount of studying from the lecture slides and the textbook. No final exam or midterm though, but the weekly quizzes made the workload really heavy.
  The professor was not the most clear when teaching, as he often lost his train of thought. His quiz questions were also worded poorly, which I brought up to him but he didn't budge. In terms of content, I did find the material to…

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