BIOL 4150

Even if you aren't a huge fan of evolutionary bio, I would HIGHLY recommend this course! Professor Cox is a fantastic lecturer, as his lectures are engaging and very clearly organized. You have a homework assignment due before each class which involves answering 4-5 questions about a short piece of primary literature that pertains to the topic of the next lecture. The papers are all very interesting, and the questions are challenging enough to force you to read, but not so challenging that the assignments become tedious. You are assessed in two mid-terms and one cumulative final. All exams are extremely fair, and if you've been doing the work and consistently showing up to lecture you will do just fine. This class really made me look at the world differently and wound up being my favorite class of the semester!

Professor Cox is amazing. If you've taken BIOL 3020, you already know this. He's a great lecturer and a genuine guy (he learned all of my class' names without us ever introducing ourselves, still a mystery as to how he did this <3). There were 2 midterms and a cumulative final. One thing about Prof Cox, everything you need to know is written on the slides he provides in class. Exams were quite fair, but you do need to study quite a bit just because each exam is on a lotttttt of 75 min long lectures. This class didn't require much work outside of studying for exams (which were infrequent). The weeks after the midterms were used for group discussions of current evolutionary biology topics (easy grade boosters). The material is also so interesting! Take this class, especially for a bio elective!

This course is amazing and Professor Cox is the one of the best professors I've ever had. His lectures are so fascinating, well-organized, and engaging. The powerpoint slides have all the information you need to know. The course structure also makes so much sense and he uses great examples to help us understand everything. The papers we had to read before every class were always really short and extremely interesting (and usually easy to understand as well). I would highly recommend this course to anyone even remotely interested in biology. I also really appreciate his questions on exams - they are smart, logical and require good application of the things you've learned. The professor himself is so kind and considerate and super accommodating (he records every lecture). I had a great time in this course and if I could take it again I would. The grade depends on short quizzes based on the papers, a couple of group activities, two midterms and a cumulative final. #tCFfall2022

IF BOB COX HAS 10000 FANS, I AM ONE OF THEM. IF BOB COX HAS 10 FANS, I AM ONE OF THEM. IF BOB COX HAS 1 FAN, IT'S ME. IF BOB COX HAS 0 FANS, I'M DEAD! This class is so enjoyable! If you enjoyed the content of BIOL 3020, especially Cox's portion, then I highly suggest you take this course. The content delves deeper into the evolution of sex ranging from anisogamy to red queen hypothesis to sex chromosomes. The class was lecture based with an exam every five lectures which, in my opinion, was very manageable. Professor Cox also recorded his lectures so if you missed something he said, you could go back and catch it. We had 20 homeworks which consisted of reading a short scientific paper and answering 4 multiple choice questions and an open-ended question that asked if you had any questions about the material presented in the paper. There were also 3 group discussions where you read a paper about science and society and submitted a paragraph about what your group talked about. Take this class!!!

I'm going to be honest, the class is not that difficult if you put in the time to study and review everything on the slides. If you follow his study guides you should be able to get a good grade. However, I truly am not a fan of his lecturing style. Professor Cox is very monotonous and his lectures were so uninteresting to me.There is no part of it that is actually engaging, you are just listening to him lecture for an entire hour and 15 straight. I had to take this course to satisfy my Area 3 bio elective, but I would recommend taking literally anything else. There was not one aspect of this class that would make me retake it again. Take this with a grain of salt, if no part of you is interested in evolution, you are better off doing something else. He teaches in the exact same style as evo/eco and if you’ve taken that before you know its not the easiest class. I can't rate it a 0 so I had to give it a 1 star.