This course is considerably more intuitive and easier than CHEM 111/121/141, but tests very different skills. Algebra skills from last semester once again play a role in physical chemistry, but spatial reasoning and geometry are also crucial for the organic chemistry section. Though the lecture section is very well-designed, the laboratory component is not so much, with the experimental procedures being difficult to understand as the directors do not hold office hours, meaning students receive little real-time support.

This course is divided into two parts: physical chemistry (further divided into thermodynamics and kinetics) and organic chemistry, overall focusing on reactivity. It is very useful for anyone in biochemistry or chemistry specializations, as future BIOC and CHEM courses build on content from this course heavily. For this course, the only content from CHEM 111/121/141 you really need are VBT, resonance structures, and Lewis structures, but this course also draws on CHEM 11/12 content heavily, including equilibrium, Bronsted-Lowry acids/bases, and organic nomenclature.

Dr. Cooke was a great prof, very approachable at office hours and light-hearted in lectures. She often shared her fun little mnemonics with us in the class, which I found silly at first but turned out very useful on the exams.

Midterm 2 is considered by many to be the hardest part of the course. This exam is doable, but focus on efficiency when practicing.

This course is a moderate course; it is harder than BIOL 121 but easier than most first-year science courses. Pre-reading quizzes, in my opinion, are the most tedious part of this course, and the midterm is considered significantly more difficult than the final. However, the hardest part of this course is the adjustment from high school, as the problems focus less on memorization of minor details and more analysis and application. Other significant parts of this course are the tutorials (smaller classes where you learn secondary content from the TAs) and the Mastery Learning Modules (MLMs), which are the hardest topics from the tutorials that the professor tests you on further to ensure understanding. Lots of chances to succeed with both of these, even if you don't do so well on the exam...read more

The course consists of three units. It consists of three parts: biological molecules (mostly review from Anatomy and Physiology 12), DNA transcription/translation/replication, and metabolism (photosynthesis and cellular respiration; the hardest part of the course in my opinion). It is highly applicable to higher-level biology courses, most notably BIOL 200 which is essentially a much harder sequel to this course.

Great professor, very approachable in class and office hours and explained a lot of concepts in lecture.

You are granted a cheat sheet on exams, but do not overload it with information as the exam format means you will hardly use it. Because most of the problems are application-based, you are much better off committing many things to memory, so only include on your cheat sheet content you are likely to forget so it comes in very handy when you need it. The most important chemistry concepts you need to remember for this course are intermolecular forces/polarity (CHEM 11) and redox (CHEM 12). These concepts may be worth reviewing, as they are not thoroughly retaught in this course.

This class should be held exclusively online. The lessons are pre made by faculty and the same slides, exams, quizzes are all used by professors teaching this class around the US. You can find answers for it all online. Attending this class in person is a waste of time. There is no learning involved. The class consists of the professor reading off the slides the entire time. I feel like i waste my money on transportation attending this class. Extremely boring just hearing someone read off slides for 3 hours. Considering the professor has certifications in nutrition, i hoped i would learn a lot. She has a lot of potential if she had the free will to lecture however she wanted.

So useless.