The lectures are very dense with material and you need to know a lot of information and specific details from the slides for the lecture exams. The labs are much more helpful if you go in person and take a ton of pictures, then for lab exams make sure you can remember every name and their taxonomic classification as well as distinguish their skull from others. Overall, the class mostly revolves around the exams so just make sure you study a lot for those.

Attendance was required for participation "quizzes." The professors were fine.

Class presentations were really dense and critical to passing tests so while attendance is not mandatory I would still recommend going. Lab revolved around memorizing and recognizing skulls. Not that bad of an experience overall would recommend.

There is a lot of work, but the course is very interesting and as long as you learn the style of his exam and lectures, it is not hard to study. As EEB majors, you would definitely take a course like this to become a true biologist!