[mitch]

This course is taught by Dr. Daniel, a great prof. The course is very similar to cell bio in second year in terms of the material being taught. The tests were modest in difficulty and there was no exam. Instead, there's a term-long group project focusing on one disease. It's a lot of work, but pretty fun and you get to make your own poster for a poster presentation at the end. If you liked cell bio and you don't mind group projects, this course is a nice bio course to take.

I noticed you gave it a "6" in easiness.
What part did you find difficult? or challenging?
I'm trying to decide between this course and Immunology (HTH SC 3I03).
I was totally planning on taking this course, until i realized it's a night class...
Any advice?

Hi Mitch,

I wanted to clarify you put the review as BIO 3H03, but did you mean MOL BIO 3H03? Because under the course calendar it says MOL BIO 3H03 the nucleus. Thank you!

Originally Posted by jass

Hi Mitch,

I wanted to clarify you put the review as BIO 3H03, but did you mean MOL BIO 3H03? Because under the course calendar it says MOL BIO 3H03 the nucleus. Thank you!

They changed it last year when they phased out 4 biology programs and replaced it with Molecular Biology and Genetics. There are a bunch that changed from Biology to Molecular Biology. If you just browse Molecular Biology it says "replaces ____" or something of that nature.

Do you get to choose your own topic and group for the term-long project, or is that all pre-determined for you by the professor? Also, how were the tutorials? Were they mandatory for participation marks, and were they useful?

You get to choose your own topic out of a list of several topics (diseases), you can also go beyond the list and have another topic approved but the list is quite extensive.

Tutorials were not so much helpful in going over material. They went over tests but that was useless for 2 reasons 1) the tests are non cumulative and 2) there is no final exam.

A few of the tutorials (maybe 3-4) were mandatory because of the project. This is where you meet with your group and check in with the TA for progress. All other tutorials were non-mandatory.

The project is a lot of fun and actually very easy marks! You get to do a poster presentation on your disease and it was evaluated by the prof and TAs. This was the easy part.

You will also have to individually come up with a critique for an article, this can be a little tedious, but nonetheless - very easy marks!

for the term-long project, is it individual or group-project?

Originally Posted by ae1011

for the term-long project, is it individual or group-project?

it's a group project, but on the side you are also working on an individual critique (related to the project).

did you know how people on average did with their marks? What are you likely to get if you didn't really like your cell biology mark? Would your mark be around cell biology's mark or higher?

Are there written components on the test? How hard are the tests?

Originally Posted by e-norman

did you know how people on average did with their marks? What are you likely to get if you didn't really like your cell biology mark? Would your mark be around cell biology's mark or higher?

Are there written components on the test? How hard are the tests?

On average people did pretty well in the course. It's hard to say how you will do relative to cell bio, I'm not sure you can really make a comparison. The tests were quite lengthy, you have more than enough time to write them but you must be very specific otherwise they dock marks. The quizzes are a very good indication of what the tests will be like.

There are written components on the test. Often she likes to take questions from the quizzes and put them on the test.

Also the group project, though it is a lot of work, will help bring your mark up.

How much of the material on quizzes and midterms are from lecture or textbook?

100% lecture. I never once opened the textbook for this course.

Is it required to go to class to do well in this course? Or could you get by on memorizing the lecture notes?

Originally Posted by Navi

Is it required to go to class to do well in this course? Or could you get by on memorizing the lecture notes?

You should to go to class because we have pop quizzes during class and last year it was a night class and she doesn't tell you when you write the quizzes. It could be at the end of class sometimes or at the beginning.

Also, you've paid for it, so u might as well just go. I never read the textbook and just went to class. Works much better that way.

Originally Posted by nita

Also, you've paid for it, so u might as well just go. I never read the textbook and just went to class. Works much better that way.

Lol, so true. Its funny how so many people are concerned about going to as little class as possible while at university. I'm sure I can't be the only one who absorbs material a lot better in a classroom as opposed to reading slides from A2L or a textbook overfilled with information that will be useless to you when the exam comes.