Eric was a great TA, and made the lab very enjoyable.

boring. time consuming. relatively easy class though

Fun, interesting class. If you go to lab lecture and do the required reading, you'll have no problem getting an A.

required but sucks just like most intro bio classes

Kopeny is evil.

the labs got fun when you got to dissect things. the lectures were unneccesary and were very boring. the main part of the grade were long detailed lab reports in which half of the questions were drawing and labeling and the rest stupid long discussion questions which always related to evolutionary trends. the labs were sometimes very interesting.

What a COMPLETE waste of time. This class is the most ridiculous class I have ever taken at UVa. In essence, here's how lab goes. You go in, try to waste some time and make it look like you did the lab in lab, and then go home early. The next week right before lab, everyone is in the biopsyc library rushing to finish the 10 page worksheet packet by looking up everything on the internet. The student TAs also told us to look it up on the internet; that's what they did.

And Kopeny's prelab lecture was another JOKE. He would have a 50 slide ppt, and get through (maybe) 12 slides and just expect you to read the rest on your own. I went for the first 3 weeks just to answer the clicker, but after that I stopped going because the lecture was superfluous. Honestly, the Biology department here at UVa is a piece of work.

In case your wondering, I got an A in this class. It had NOTHING to do with Kopeny. If you do well on the weekly quizzes but don't go to lecture, your TA won't say anything. They start to question you when you do badly and don't go to prelab lecture.

This class was really unstructured with only weekly worksheets and quizzes and no midterm or final. The early morning lectures were painful to sit through, but they were only 45 minutes long. Depending on the TA, quizzes may be easy or really tricky. Study the pre-lab lecture slides and read through the book. Overall, it was an interesting class because we get to dissect stuff, but the quizzes and worksheets were another matter.

Admittedly, I am not a bio major (there wasn't a biochem tab). So this was really the most painful lab experience I've ever had, just because I didn't care. And quizzes were extremely picky, and a bit arbitrary. Worksheets were the most busy work I've ever had at UVA...maybe worse than anything I encountered in high school. It turned out for me, but it wasn't fun at all.

I love this class! No work at all. Easy A+. You dont eve have to go to lab lectures- ecause he just reads off the slides so makes things easier. The few times I went, the lab lecture was enlightening but no need to go as I figured out by the 2nd lecture. Thr reports and quizzes are so easy!- even a 5th grader can do it.