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[brown98]

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[narc]

Hi There:

I am thinking of taking the following classes/professors at Berkeley Extension this fall. If you have taken these course or know anything about these professors, please let me know.

Any advice is appreciated!

Developmental Biology with Mary Alice Yund
Biochemistry with Mary Alice Yund
Immunology with Amy Morgan
Human Physiology with Keith Earnshaw or Sarah Skikne

They offer these through extension? I didnt know that. Havent heard of any of these profs. That would be one hell of a fall semester non-extension. I wonder what it will be like.

 

[lilhelen]

Let me know how it goes and maybe I'll take some too. Immuno sounds pretty fun 😛

Hi There:

I am thinking of taking the following classes/professors at Berkeley Extension this fall. If you have taken these course or know anything about these professors, please let me know.

Any advice is appreciated!

Developmental Biology with Mary Alice Yund
Biochemistry with Mary Alice Yund
Immunology with Amy Morgan
Human Physiology with Keith Earnshaw or Sarah Skikne
Human Anatomy with Patrick Brown

ps. I am not going to take all these courses at once. Just wanted to get a feel of the professor/class 🙂

 

[FujiApple]

Hi There:

I am thinking of taking the following classes/professors at Berkeley Extension this fall. If you have taken these course or know anything about these professors, please let me know.

Any advice is appreciated!

Developmental Biology with Mary Alice Yund
Biochemistry with Mary Alice Yund
Immunology with Amy Morgan
Human Physiology with Keith Earnshaw or Sarah Skikne
Human Anatomy with Patrick Brown

ps. I am not going to take all these courses at once. Just wanted to get a feel of the professor/class 🙂

GO BEARS!

but sorry, I haven't heard of any of these professors.

 

[reverend doc]

I took biochemistry with Mary Alice Yund at UCB-Extension last year. She's a nice woman, but a mind-numbingly boring professor. She uses the syllabus and quizzes from the previous professor, who was apparently a dynamic teacher. Yund's lecture style is monotonous and she doesn't seem to have a totally secure grasp of the concepts. She comes from an industrial/commercial research background, so she knows a lot about working with proteins in a lab setting, but not as much about biochem in general. I ended up skipping a lot of classes and studying on my own, which was okay, since I don't mind learning from books. But if you learn best through lecture and have another option, I'd go with that.

Good luck!

 

[notdeadyet]

You can also take some of these same classes via online independent learning via Berkeley Extension, if you get a bad report about the instructors.

 

[gipper]

I took Biochemistry and Developmental Biology but with different professors. I just took Immunology online with Amy Morgan. The subject matter is interesting, the book is little high-level, and she has high expectations. I found the class challenging - perhaps more challenging b/c it was online and not classroom.

 

[brown98]

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[gipper]

Thank you for these reply. How about the grading system that Amy Morgan used.....was the grade typical of the grade you have received in your science classes.

Thanks!

I ended up with an A which is better than I did in my undergraduate classes but that was over 7 years ago - I am a MUCH better student nowadays, spending much more time and effort in my courses.

Grades were calculated as follows:
40% Written assignments (one for each of the 10 units)
20% Term paper (topic of your choice)
40% Final exam

 

[narc]

I ended up with an A which is better than I did in my undergraduate classes but that was over 7 years ago - I am a MUCH better student nowadays, spending much more time and effort in my courses.

Grades were calculated as follows:
40% Written assignments (one for each of the 10 units)
20% Term paper (topic of your choice)
40% Final exam

Amazing how different that is from normal Berkeley courses. Generally it is 2 midterms and a final. No term paper no assignments.

 

[S198]

Let me know how it goes and maybe I'll take some too. Immuno sounds pretty fun 😛

Pat Brown is the director of the science program or someone who administrates the post bacc program, approachable, and reasonable. Physiology at extension was a good class when I took it at the SF center. I am not sure about any of your teachers because I have not heard of them. I had Zhao, Louie, Valles, and Bagovic. Now I have Huseby and Azevedo.

 

[BigBlueBear]

Pat Brown is the director of the science program or someone who administrates the post bacc program, approachable, and reasonable. Physiology at extension was a good class when I took it at the SF center. I am not sure about any of your teachers because I have not heard of them. I had Zhao, Louie, Valles, and Bagovic. Now I have Huseby and Azevedo.

Nice 7 year bump?

 

[mehc012]

Amazing how different that is from normal Berkeley courses. Generally it is 2 midterms and a final. No term paper no assignments.

Right, but it's a little harder to schedule in 2 midterms when there's only 1 class meeting/week and you can't have an exam session outside of the regular meetings. You'd lose a lot of class time doing 2 midterms AND a final.

I took a UCBE course where they compromised by having 1 midterm, 1 final, and a few short quizzes which, though they aren't as rigorous as a full exam, also take up little class time and don't interrupt the flow of the course too much.


Nice to see that there are some other people trying these extension courses...I was a little surprised when I first signed up and saw almost zero comment about them on SDN.