Originally Posted by jhan523

I don't think I've ever had a problem with administration. Kathy McIntosh is a great undergrad admin/advisor in my opinion. My biggest criticism about the biology department is the faculty. I know many of the professors are great researchers, but great researchers don't necessarily make great professors. Personally I find that the delivery of material isn't always the most efficient which is why I found myself not attending many lectures as I could just learn the material on my own more efficiently.

Another thing I'm not a big fan of is how professors start their courses. I understand that not all students who register in Mol Bio courses are Mol Bio students, but the amount of review that occurs during the first weeks to sometimes a month is kind of ridiculous. Even though not all the students are Mol Bio students, I'm confident that all the students have taken basic biology courses (they should be prerequisites anyways). So it's not necessary to spend weeks on reviewing things like different types of mutations (point, deletions, insertions, etc...) or that DNA is transcribed into RNA using RNA polymerase and that DNA is replicated with DNA polymerase. I paid over 500$ for this course, don't waste almost 1/4 to 1/3 of the lectures on things everyone should already know.