KINE 3600

Good luck! This is a difficult course. There is no easy way around it. Your entire grade is made up of 4 exams, a quiz each regional area (4?-- I think), and a cumulative final. This is 10x more content than human anatomy. You are expected to know the muscles and bones of the body like the back of your hand. Origins, insertions, actions, innervations, everything! However, as difficult as this class is, I learned so much. It was one of those classes you come out of actually feeling like you learned something. Higgins is a fun guy. He knows what he's talking about. He's very accommodating and is just always in a good mood. As much as I want to hate the class simply because it was so much memorization, Higgins was great.

Higgins is cool, he tells a lot of dad jokes which is really cute. However, this class has a ridiculous amount of content. It is sheer memorization and there is a LOT. If you already took human anatomy, it's like that x10. There is just so much to remember and you absolutely need to start studying content the day you learn it. He emphasizes this at the beginning of the year, but this is NOT a class that you can begin studying for the night before (trust me, I tried). You have to do well on all the exams or it becomes very difficult to bring your grade back up.

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This class was kind of a bear due to all the material. We had slides, reading, and complete anatomy for every week. He's a good professor and willing to help but sitting and watching slides can get pretty tedious after a while. I learned a lot but I still felt dumb on every test, especially the second exam on lower extremity. This could also be because this was my first anatomy class, I assume most of the class had taken or was taking the Anatomy series in the Biology department. The ranges on exams were kind of wild we had people scoring in the 30s and 40s and people getting full points. The average was probably in the 80s?
We also took our exams on camera on Zoom which was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!

What a class. Perhaps the most difficult Kinesiology course, but hey, it's Kinesiology. Higgins embodies what every other KINE professor does: fun. He is super laid back and will crack more jokes than you learn anatomy in this class. It will be intimidating at first, but once you figure out how the class is structured, like any, you will be fine.
What you probably really want to know: 5 tests (including a cumulative final), a group project, and the opportunity for 4 points extra credit. You don't have to go to class, but he will throw some tidbits that are not on the slides. Exams are fill in the blank and multiple choice. You will learn a great deal more in this course than Kopeny's A&P.