I took this course as a general interest course. I have an undergrad in biology and I'm currently taking economics courses for upgrading. With a bio background, this course was pretty easy. The hardest part would be learning the scientific language if you don't have a background in it. I found this course really interesting - kind of like the socioeconomics of health. Definitely recommend it if you have an interest in public health. The course involved an open book midterm and final, and a project worth 25% of your grade that shouldn't take you more than a day to do and get an A on.

Watch the lectures. Tarry gives a lot of hints in them about what will be on the exams.

Tarry Ahuja was awesome!

I wasn't too sure about this course when I enrolled in it. It sounded technical and I was worried this would feel more like a neuroscience or biology class, but it turned out to be a breeze. The course covered really relevant and interesting topics, and simply watching the lectures equipped you with everything you needed to ace your assignments and exams. There was 1 assignment and 2 exams, and both were extremely easy.

This course covered the anatomy of the brain and neurons on a very surface level, studied health risks such as eating disorders, smoking, vaping, drugs, addictions, obesity, etc., all of which are pretty timely topics.

The professor was super chill and easy going. He was very transparent about his expectations and the exams as well as assignments were very straight forward and simple.