PHYSCI 167
Physiology of Nutrition
Description: Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisites: Chemistry 14A, 14B, 14C, and 14D, or 20A, 20B, 30A, and 30B. Limited to Physiological Science majors and Food Studies minors. Topics include physiological adaptation to starvation and physiological responses to oxidants/antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, photochemicals, and their relationship to common chronic diseases and physiology of fuel utilization during aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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This was my favorite class at UCLA. First, it's a really easy class. Not only easy for phy sci, but compared to any class on campus, even for north campus. So if you are a phy sci major make sure you take this as one of your electives. There's one multiple choice midterm, a diet self assessment plan, and a final exam thats free response. The course uses a reader thats about a hundred pages. The lectures are really enjoyable and the professor even tells you to just listen. You learn a lot about nutrition and how to eat healthy. The exams are based on the reader which you can just study the night before. There is a sign in sheet every class.
This was my favorite class at UCLA. First, it's a really easy class. Not only easy for phy sci, but compared to any class on campus, even for north campus. So if you are a phy sci major make sure you take this as one of your electives. There's one multiple choice midterm, a diet self assessment plan, and a final exam thats free response. The course uses a reader thats about a hundred pages. The lectures are really enjoyable and the professor even tells you to just listen. You learn a lot about nutrition and how to eat healthy. The exams are based on the reader which you can just study the night before. There is a sign in sheet every class.
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Winter 2018 - My review is based on the Winter 2018-19 quarter. Even if you are extremely interested in the "physiology of nutrition," THINK AGAIN BEFORE TAKING THIS CLASS. I enrolled in this course because of my passion for the topic. I thought I would receive a life-changing UCLA education on it, but I've never been more mistaken. We barely saw our professor because there was a guest lecturer almost every week, and they usually sped through their powerpoints because of the insane amount of material covered. Overall, lectures were very scattered and unorganized, with no apparent order and flow. On top of that, powerpoints were never uploaded to ccle, and the class was not bruincasted. I ended up only going to lecture to catch the mandatory sign-in sheet. RIP.. Grade breakdown: - 30 points, 30 question multiple choice midterm (I got 26/30) - 20 points, 2 page, double-spaced body composition assessment (I got 19.75/20) - 50 points, 50 question multiple choice CUMULATIVE final (I got 42/50) - 100 points total (I got 87.75/100) I ended up getting an A-, so that means that our class had at least a 2.25% grade bump up. So... the take-away message is this: If you learn best through lectures like I do, this is not the class for you. This ain't it chief. Save yourself. HOWEVER, if you don't mind crappy lectures, along with reading and memorizing every detail from a 300-page, poorly written course reader on your own, feel free to give it a shot. And good luck. In my opinion, this class needs an extreme makeover.
Winter 2018 - My review is based on the Winter 2018-19 quarter. Even if you are extremely interested in the "physiology of nutrition," THINK AGAIN BEFORE TAKING THIS CLASS. I enrolled in this course because of my passion for the topic. I thought I would receive a life-changing UCLA education on it, but I've never been more mistaken. We barely saw our professor because there was a guest lecturer almost every week, and they usually sped through their powerpoints because of the insane amount of material covered. Overall, lectures were very scattered and unorganized, with no apparent order and flow. On top of that, powerpoints were never uploaded to ccle, and the class was not bruincasted. I ended up only going to lecture to catch the mandatory sign-in sheet. RIP.. Grade breakdown: - 30 points, 30 question multiple choice midterm (I got 26/30) - 20 points, 2 page, double-spaced body composition assessment (I got 19.75/20) - 50 points, 50 question multiple choice CUMULATIVE final (I got 42/50) - 100 points total (I got 87.75/100) I ended up getting an A-, so that means that our class had at least a 2.25% grade bump up. So... the take-away message is this: If you learn best through lectures like I do, this is not the class for you. This ain't it chief. Save yourself. HOWEVER, if you don't mind crappy lectures, along with reading and memorizing every detail from a 300-page, poorly written course reader on your own, feel free to give it a shot. And good luck. In my opinion, this class needs an extreme makeover.
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