Professor
Fernando Gomez-Pinilla
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2023 - DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! While the professor is a nice guy, that is about all the positives I have to say about this course. First off, the entire course is majority test-based so your grade relies on the two quizzes and midterm and final almost entirely. So if you have a bad day, you will not get an A. Secondly, the professor is very hard to understand. Unfortunately, this is due to a strong language barrier that makes the 2-hour lectures hard to bear. Most students do not even show up to class after week 2 even though classes are not recorded. This barrier also makes the lectures monotonous as he gets caught up in his own train of thought constantly. He also cant answer questions very well and makes you feel dumb for asking them when students would during class. Third, The course has a $25 course reader that has all the info that most people just read along with his slides and skip lecture. The reader is never directly required but acts as basically a supplemental textbook if you need it. Fourth, almost 6 lectures are devoted to student presentations where you and a partner must prepare a 10 slide powerpoint presentation on a research paper that you have to read assigned by the professor. You must give a 20 minute presentation on the paper and some students do it before the midterm and others before the final. Unfortunately, these take up about a 1/3 of the actual lectures and are kind of a waste of time though somewhat interesting. Overall, I do not recommend this course at all. Take any other neuro or physiology class if you can! The structure is awful, grading harsh, and professor hard to understand and hard to ask questions to. You can honestly get the info of this course from any other neuro or endocrinology course and I cannot strongly recommend more to do so instead of suffer through the 2 hours of confusion this class will bring you twice a week.
Fall 2023 - DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! While the professor is a nice guy, that is about all the positives I have to say about this course. First off, the entire course is majority test-based so your grade relies on the two quizzes and midterm and final almost entirely. So if you have a bad day, you will not get an A. Secondly, the professor is very hard to understand. Unfortunately, this is due to a strong language barrier that makes the 2-hour lectures hard to bear. Most students do not even show up to class after week 2 even though classes are not recorded. This barrier also makes the lectures monotonous as he gets caught up in his own train of thought constantly. He also cant answer questions very well and makes you feel dumb for asking them when students would during class. Third, The course has a $25 course reader that has all the info that most people just read along with his slides and skip lecture. The reader is never directly required but acts as basically a supplemental textbook if you need it. Fourth, almost 6 lectures are devoted to student presentations where you and a partner must prepare a 10 slide powerpoint presentation on a research paper that you have to read assigned by the professor. You must give a 20 minute presentation on the paper and some students do it before the midterm and others before the final. Unfortunately, these take up about a 1/3 of the actual lectures and are kind of a waste of time though somewhat interesting. Overall, I do not recommend this course at all. Take any other neuro or physiology class if you can! The structure is awful, grading harsh, and professor hard to understand and hard to ask questions to. You can honestly get the info of this course from any other neuro or endocrinology course and I cannot strongly recommend more to do so instead of suffer through the 2 hours of confusion this class will bring you twice a week.
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