PHYSCI 111B
Foundations in Physiological Science
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: course 111A, Chemistry 14D or 30B. Students must receive grade of C or better to proceed to next course in series. Introduction to principles of systems physiology, including endocrinology, transport physiology, and cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology. Letter grading.
Units: 6.0
Units: 6.0
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Spring 2024 - Dr. Correa may be the best professor that we had between both PHYSCI111A and PHYSCI111B, and this is not a slight to the other professors, most of whom were also amazing, but a testament to her own character. PHYSCI111B offered the most coordinated and impressive teaching team I've had, with contributions from all three professors, but Dr. Correa did an amazing job leading the course. She is brilliant, compassionate, and engaging in lecture. It is common for many professors to have perhaps one or two of these attributes, but we were privileged to have a professor with all three. Her module (on a larger scale) and lectures (on a smaller scale) were both organized and clear. Her exam, while testing our knowledge of all of the material, was the most straight forward exam I have taken at UCLA. She was open about what she was going to look for when going into the exam, and she followed through with her word. I have also never encountered a professor so concerned about student well-being, while also actually doing something about it and listening to student voices and needs.
Spring 2024 - Dr. Correa may be the best professor that we had between both PHYSCI111A and PHYSCI111B, and this is not a slight to the other professors, most of whom were also amazing, but a testament to her own character. PHYSCI111B offered the most coordinated and impressive teaching team I've had, with contributions from all three professors, but Dr. Correa did an amazing job leading the course. She is brilliant, compassionate, and engaging in lecture. It is common for many professors to have perhaps one or two of these attributes, but we were privileged to have a professor with all three. Her module (on a larger scale) and lectures (on a smaller scale) were both organized and clear. Her exam, while testing our knowledge of all of the material, was the most straight forward exam I have taken at UCLA. She was open about what she was going to look for when going into the exam, and she followed through with her word. I have also never encountered a professor so concerned about student well-being, while also actually doing something about it and listening to student voices and needs.
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Spring 2021 - Correa was the best professor in 111B and starting with her module made all the other modules feel terrible. She had 5 lectures and we had a quiz on lecture content for two weeks worth 20 points each and the midterm was worth 60 points. All of her exams were super fair/easy and open note. She was also really nice and listened to our recommendations if we had any and was super considerate of how we were doing during the pandemic. The only downside was the discussion paper quizzes during her module were HARD to the point where I couldn't even use the paper to deduce the right answer.
Spring 2021 - Correa was the best professor in 111B and starting with her module made all the other modules feel terrible. She had 5 lectures and we had a quiz on lecture content for two weeks worth 20 points each and the midterm was worth 60 points. All of her exams were super fair/easy and open note. She was also really nice and listened to our recommendations if we had any and was super considerate of how we were doing during the pandemic. The only downside was the discussion paper quizzes during her module were HARD to the point where I couldn't even use the paper to deduce the right answer.
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Spring 2021 - Metzner is the WORST professor at UCLA and I am in shock that he is still teaching. So basically, Metzner is the 3rd professor in this class and teaches the Kidney and Respiratory system aka the largest module of the class (9 lectures). Well, at least he was supposed to. The two previous professors (Correa and Quijada, bless y'all) gave us weekly quizzes on lecture content to avoid a large midterm and show us exam format and also provided us with exam style questions during Zoom hour as they prerecorded their lectures. Metzner, however, decided he would lecture live via Zoom. He did not turn on the camera a single time and none of the students know what he looks like. Furthermore, he frequently stumbled over his words, read things off the slides incorrectly, and texted/answered calls over lecture. We basically didn't learn. Given the horrendous lectures, none of us understood the class content and the TAs noticed this during discussion. The TA's went out of their way to reteach and record their OWN lectures and sent them to us to use as a tool to study for the midterm for his module which was set to be 180 points (out of 540 in the class); this was the LARGEST midterm we would have as all the other professors used quizzes to offset the weight on the midterm (Module 1 MT: 60, Module 2: 40; Module 4: 60, but was supposed to be 40, I'll get into that). Metzner tells us he's going to send practice problems and doesn't, and ends up sending them the Saturday before our Tuesday night midterm. We're all stressed at this point, upset that we can't understand his lectures, and trying to get a good grade all at the same time. Now what happened next, was a miracle and a curse. The TAs sent out an email Sunday night at 7:30 PM letting us know that we would NOT be having a midterm due to COVID (ie the professor sucks) and they would give us more details later. The TAs let us know not to worry about the assignment and that it would be easy and fair. They sent us a take-home assignment worth 100 points and decided to give us 60 free points (ie missing 20 points which were added to module 4's midterm). They gave us a 5 line/7 bullet point limit per question. The assignment wasn't difficult, but was graded harshly given that we had a limit in lines. I'm still so grateful for what the TA's did for us in this module/the course of 107,111A, and 111B. They really had to do the professor's job and made the assignment themselves. All in all, Metzner was the worst 3 weeks I ever had at UCLA and I don't know how this man is still employed.
Spring 2021 - Metzner is the WORST professor at UCLA and I am in shock that he is still teaching. So basically, Metzner is the 3rd professor in this class and teaches the Kidney and Respiratory system aka the largest module of the class (9 lectures). Well, at least he was supposed to. The two previous professors (Correa and Quijada, bless y'all) gave us weekly quizzes on lecture content to avoid a large midterm and show us exam format and also provided us with exam style questions during Zoom hour as they prerecorded their lectures. Metzner, however, decided he would lecture live via Zoom. He did not turn on the camera a single time and none of the students know what he looks like. Furthermore, he frequently stumbled over his words, read things off the slides incorrectly, and texted/answered calls over lecture. We basically didn't learn. Given the horrendous lectures, none of us understood the class content and the TAs noticed this during discussion. The TA's went out of their way to reteach and record their OWN lectures and sent them to us to use as a tool to study for the midterm for his module which was set to be 180 points (out of 540 in the class); this was the LARGEST midterm we would have as all the other professors used quizzes to offset the weight on the midterm (Module 1 MT: 60, Module 2: 40; Module 4: 60, but was supposed to be 40, I'll get into that). Metzner tells us he's going to send practice problems and doesn't, and ends up sending them the Saturday before our Tuesday night midterm. We're all stressed at this point, upset that we can't understand his lectures, and trying to get a good grade all at the same time. Now what happened next, was a miracle and a curse. The TAs sent out an email Sunday night at 7:30 PM letting us know that we would NOT be having a midterm due to COVID (ie the professor sucks) and they would give us more details later. The TAs let us know not to worry about the assignment and that it would be easy and fair. They sent us a take-home assignment worth 100 points and decided to give us 60 free points (ie missing 20 points which were added to module 4's midterm). They gave us a 5 line/7 bullet point limit per question. The assignment wasn't difficult, but was graded harshly given that we had a limit in lines. I'm still so grateful for what the TA's did for us in this module/the course of 107,111A, and 111B. They really had to do the professor's job and made the assignment themselves. All in all, Metzner was the worst 3 weeks I ever had at UCLA and I don't know how this man is still employed.
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Spring 2024 - Dr. Quijada handled a very challenging time in the quarter with grace and compassion. She cared very much about our ability to still learn in the class, while understanding that the environment might not have been the most conducive to that goal. I'm saddened that we did not get to learn in person with her for very long, but she was an excellent professor with some of the best lecture slides I've ever had. She adapted well this quarter, and it also seemed as though she is very responsive to feedback from prior quarters and does not remain rigid in the material she covers, which I have exceeding respect and appreciation for.
Spring 2024 - Dr. Quijada handled a very challenging time in the quarter with grace and compassion. She cared very much about our ability to still learn in the class, while understanding that the environment might not have been the most conducive to that goal. I'm saddened that we did not get to learn in person with her for very long, but she was an excellent professor with some of the best lecture slides I've ever had. She adapted well this quarter, and it also seemed as though she is very responsive to feedback from prior quarters and does not remain rigid in the material she covers, which I have exceeding respect and appreciation for.
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