The best aspect of this course was the active and fun labs in which students got to experience biology hands-on. The worst aspects of the course included the disorganized teaching assistants, unproductive flowcharts, and often unclear lab instructions. The course would be improved if it were more organized and if the lab instructions/manuals were gone over in detail before students began the labs. Prospective students should know that this is a strictly experimental course. They will definitely be successful and enjoy the course if they follow the instructions and complete all the lab experiments thoroughly.

Students broadly praised this course for having outdoor labs and for giving students hands-on experience. Students’ issues with the course included a dislike for the duration of the three-hour course, and they felt that the final portion of the course was completely filler assignments. Suggestions for improvement included a desire for greater clarity in terms of what students needed to do during lab assignments. Prospective students should know that the course had a decent amount of work, but there was little work that needed to be done outside of class.

Students complimented this course which covered intriguing subject matter and al owed students hands-on laboratory experience. In addition, students were happy that the work load for this course was reasonable and most work could be completed during class time. Perceived issues with the course primarily centered around beliefs that the labs could be disorganized with equipment not set up in 28advance and with some labs having unclear instructions. Suggestions for improvement varied as many students couldn’t find any fault with the course while others wanted to see the course swap in new labs as existing ones weren’t chal enging. Prospective students should know that students found the workload in the course lighter than other labs and described it as fun and informative.