Introduction to Laboratory and Scientific Methodology

Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Requisite: course 2 or 7B. Recommended to be taken concurrently with course 7C. Introductory life sciences laboratory designed for undergraduate students. Opportunity to conduct wet-laboratory and cutting-edge bioinformatics laboratory experiments. Students work in groups of three conducting experiments in areas of physiology, metabolism, cell biology, molecular biology, genotyping, and bioinformatics. Letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
8.3 / 10
Organization
6.7 / 10
Time
5-10 hrs/week
Overall
5.0 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: A

    pfluegl was a fun prof, class is overall very easy
    I definitely did not make this class a priority, but I still got an A

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: A

    Lectures were quick and just an overview of the lab for the week. Three scientific writing assignments and a final. First two writing assignments are for practice and are peer reviewed, they don’t have to be perfect. Labs are three hours but not hard, very straightforward. TAs are very nice and writing coordinator is very helpful.

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: N/A

    The class was really easy and the labs were fun. It is a required class for all life science majors so you have to take it anyways but its definitely very easy.

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: A+

    Pfluegl is a great professor and he is very sweet. The course is also pretty easy - just follow the rubric for the writings and just review the modules for the labs for the final

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: A

    Very easy class. Lab is required but all you have to do is show up and you'll basically get full points.

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: A+

    very easy class, would recommend taking for sure!

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 Online
    Grade: A

    Easy class and the TA's are very chill. My group was always struggling during the lab and it never affected our scores. As long as you do the work you will get a good grade

    Quarter Taken: Spring 2024 Online
    Grade: A-

    Tests were just like practice tests. A lot of work, but the work isn’t hard.

Course

Instructor
Gaston Pfluegl
Previously taught
24S 24W 23F 23Su 23S 23W 22F 22Su 22S 22W 21F 21Su 21W 20Su

Grading Information

  • Has a group project

  • Attendance required

  • No midterms

  • Finals week final

  • 36% recommend the textbook

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