KINE 3450

Prof Angadi is extremely rude, stuck up, and unkind to his students. He teaches the class in a way where he expects every student to have an extensive background in Kinesiology and medicine (when many people don't). He is sassy with the way he writes his emails and refuses to round (even when people have 89.67s). The class itself is very interesting but it is difficult, especially if you do not have a background in Kinesiology and are taking it for the health and wellbeing minor. Overall, disappointed because I think this class could have been amazing if it was taught by someone who was kind, understanding, respectful and receptive towards their students.

Overall, the course is very interesting. Dr. Siddhartha Angadi is extremely knowledgeable and essentially has all of the research papers memorized from cover to cover. He gives you many research papers to read, but he goes over the main idea of all of them in class. The papers are extremely dense and you honestly just need to know the main ideas from the papers. He goes over all of the important points in class. All of the knowledge that you gain from this class will be from research studies. The course material is honestly quite mind-blowing. We have some very nice whole-class discussions during class, especially Dr. Angadi is very sassy (condescending at times especially when he exposes bogus claims) and entertaining. However, this is definitely one of the harder kinesiology classes. This course has no room for error when it comes to getting an A. The threshold for an A is 95% (which is just too high). Many professors use 95% as the threshold for an A because this is UVA's default cutoff for an A (and many professors like Dr. Angadi are simply too lazy to change it). There are 3 midterm exams and they are all averaged. The 2nd and 3rd exams had only 25 questions, meaning that you were already below the threshold for an A if you missed more than one question. The first exam had 30 questions, so there was more wiggle room. There is an optional final exam, but the final exam is factored in and averaged with the other 3 midterms if you decide to take it. Taking the final exam does not replace your lowest exam grade. I got 91.5, 100, and 94, respectively on the 3 midterms, which means that I got just the right number of questions correct to secure an A for the course. This is the only class that I've ever taken at the university where there were no fixed exam dates in the syllabus. He tells us about the exams a week before. The exams open on Thursday afternoon after class and you have until Tuesday at noon to take them, so you have the entire weekend to take them. Once you open the exam, you have 75 minutes to complete it. Even though the exam was completely open-book, some of the answers are extremely hard to find in your notes. The best way to study for these exams is to study with other students and see how they take notes. Having other people to study with is very helpful to succeed in the exams. Taking structured notes is key to success in this course since the exams are open-book and you need to know where to find answers. The 1st exam has computational problems, which he does not teach in class and expects you to learn on your own from an equation sheet and a vague haphazard video. The second and third exams had no computational problems. The exams are all multiple-choice and select-all-that-apply questions. Make sure you read the questions and answer choices carefully. DO NOT TRY AND GOOGLE ANSWERS!!!!! A big portion of the course is exposing bogus commercials and bogus claims in the media. In short, take this course if you are minoring in health and well-being or if you are majoring in kinesiology. Do not take this course as a GPA booster because the odds are that you will wind up with an A- instead of an A. There are many other courses in the school of Education/Human Development that you can take to inflate your GPA: EDIS & EDHS.