I took this course thinking it would be one of my easier classes, as it seemed like a fairly simple concept. I was proven wrong on the first day of class. There are required readings after every class and sometimes even required screenings. The readings can go up to 30 pages of small print. There are pop up reflections every 3 classes or so (they are surprise pop up reflections on the readings) Katie Chandler always seems to try and get the classe's opinion on things to divert from the fact that she herself does not fully understanding the material. It seems as though every time someone makes a comment, she refrains from answering or adding to it because she isnt quite sure what to say.

The content is about India, Buddhism and Indigenous views on the environment and religion. I did not think it was useful to my education.

The professors seemed sweet but the content was so poor that I can't defend them

dont

I'm not a science person, but patell was the best! I got 100% on two of the four exams and high A's on the others.

Absolute worst class I have ever taken as a graduate student. You are given 72 hours to absorb a given unit and then are immediately tested on it that same week. The questions run the entire range of Bloom’s Taxonomy, yet the time between knowledge acquisition in lecture never changes. The professors clearly lack pedagogical training/education as the class structure is designed for you to memorize factoids for the quizzes and forget for the next unit. I was really excited to learn immunology, but that excitement quickly turned to dread waking up every morning and going to class. The professor changes every week and so that means the lecturing style, evaluation, and paper discussion logistics all change weekly too. There is no standardization of anything across evaluation materials or eve...read more

No, everything is very surface level. Nearly undergraduate high-level content. One professor asked us, a group of PhD students, if we even *knew* what a knockout mouse was. A group of PhD students. Unbelievable.

Boring, uninspiring, clearly knows what they research, but struggle to teach anything beyond what they themselves study.

Don’t take it. Switch programs if it is required.

LOVED Dr. Raven as a professor; she does an amazing job with teaching this course and brings in representatives from every population we study for them to teach us more about their experience with working with the population as well.

Learning about working with diverse population groups.

She is the best of both worlds; she is a great teacher and holds you accountable as a student, while also being down-to-earth and taking time to connect with her students.