I just finished the final exam for UNE Anatomy 1005 and here's some information that may helpful to future students:
TLDR: hard class, but possible to pass.
The course is an incredibly bad value; you are basically paying to read a book and take online exams. Know this going into the course and you can save yourself some if the headache knowing it will be bad. The course materials include textbook(online), science interactive dissection materials, a virtual anatomy program, plus your perseverance and grit. Assignments include reading quizzes, discussion posts, dissection video presentations, and the midterm and final. There is literally no instructional materials. No lectures, no notes, not even study guides for the exams. I asked my instructor about a study guide and they said "Unfortunately because there is a such a large bank of questions, each students gets a slightly different exam. Because of this it is difficult to make a study guide." Yikes..
Anyway, I procrastinated and with about 8 weeks left got my ass in gear and got to work. The reading quizzes are online without a proctor so you can have the textbook open in another tab to help you out when you get stumped. I found that actually doing reading was only 50% helpful while the study outlines at end the chapters were much more condensed and had about everything you needed to know. The video presentations are weird and awkward but if if hit all the talking points listed on the rubric you basically get a 100. The dissections are pretty gross, but you don't really dissect, more like cut in half, identify parts, and make your video. The discussion posts are real drag, but their easy.
After about 4 weeks of hustle I started studying for the midterm. This is when I asked about a study guide and was told theres's too much material to make study guide, yet somehow we're supposed to know it all. There was 19 chapters covered on the midterm, and I had no time to reread that much material, so I started working through the study outlines and supplemental questions at the end of each chapter. I would also recommend reading the clinical examples in the textbook since clinical application questions showed up on the exam. I felt woefully unprepared, but managed a B on the midterm. Questions were easier than I had anticipated, not so much in detail more big picture. There were definitely a few highly specific questions, but a majority were fair. For the final, I took the same approach and got a B for an overall B in the course.
Disclaimer: this course completed my conditional acceptance to DS, so I didn't feel the pressure to go for A. I say this because it definitely possible to get an A if you go hard. I would recommend doing the course in two bursts, such that you minimize the amount of time between the first assignment and last assignments of the midterm and final and when you start studying. There's so much material, I found it better to just do all the course work for the final exam in like two weeks and then start studying vs doing midterm coursework over many weeks and then studying.
Overall, you will be teaching yourself and this class covers a TON of material so be ready. You can definitely pass, just make sure to study the textbook outlines since this is where the high yield is. The virtual anatomy program has some useful quizzes too. Feel free to ask me questions too!
