It is 2025 and this course is based in windows 7 which ended support in January 2020. The fundamental problem with this course is that it being taught by the people who chose a text book based on windows 7. This is basic hardware stuff and having access to a lab should be a fun learning activity. Instead it is drudgery completing pointless labs in an outdated os and no one knows why or can communicate any expected learning objectives. This is a basic tech intro class. When I look online I see high schools and colleges around the world teach this material without teaching outdated operating systems. Skip this class and find some place else or get a cert. or watch you tube videos for a month. This class is a waste

The course is helpful and fun, but the grading system is not good at all

The content is mainly differnt lab techniques and experiments, which you will use to write lap reports.

The professor is nice and explains things well.

The grading system is terrible, if you do everything you need for a 12 but get less than 80 for example on the lab test, you get less. The grades other than the lab test is pass/fail, but honestly normal grading would have been better and more fair. If you don't need this course tho, I would still recomend doing it because it helps you with lab and research information.

The content itself isn't bad, but the grading and overall way this course was made was terrible. If you took foods class in highschool it shouldn't be that bad, but again, the midterms and exams are poorly worded, a lot of students failed it creating a bifocal distribution of the results which the professor didn't consider assuming all the students who failed did not attend the classes.

The course content is interesting if you like nutrition content. Its heavy though, so you will need to memorize a lot of things including the results/ summaries of the graphs shown. Also attend the classes to sp you can write all the content on the slides since they aren't fully written.

The professor seems chill, her midterm and exam wording isn't the best though.

Make sure this course is something you need so you dont waste time or money on it.