BIOL 3250

I absolutely loved Kawasaki! I really enjoyed this class. But I would only recommend Kawasaki to speak a little louder during his lectures because sometimes it was hard to hear him. But besides that, everything was good! The class was not hard at all. All you have to do is go over his lecture slides and watch the videos. You can refer back to the textbook if you do not understand something, but that is rare. His exams were fair. The test averages were always in the B/B+ range. It is not hard to achieve a good grade in this class.

The class overall was ok. Kawasaki is ok at lecturing but it was hard sometimes to understand what he was saying. He picks out important topics to cover during class but you should do the assigned readings from the textbook if you have time. For the tests, I would mainly focus on the stuff he covers in lecture, understand the videos he goes over in class, and read the chapters. I always felt behind when it came to reading the book so I mainly would focus on the lectures themselves. However if he pointed out topics that we should focus on from the textbook then I would read those sections. The average for the midterm one was 31.18/37 and 37/43 for midterm two. He gave us a study guide for the final and told us what to focus on so if you work on the study guide and read the pages he points out then you should do well on the final. The average on the final was 44.95/50. Midterms were 50 mintues long, but final was 2 hours long.The grading comes from the two exams and the final so you have to do well on the exams. An A started at 94 so it's an easy A- class but a hard A class. Only 6 people received an A while 18 students got A- (I got an A-) and 15 got B+. The class overall was worthwhile, but I didn't like it that much.