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Madison is one of the three professors for Bio 151 and when compared to the other two, her lectures are not as engaging. Overall she lectures well, but I found myself spending more time outside of class to understand her topics. The labs also required some outside class hours but the TAs are also helpful to guide you through completing lab reports!Rate My Professors ↗
She isn't the best lecturer ever but the content she teaches is fairly interesting.Rate My Professors ↗
My favorite lecturer for BIO 151 - she is very passionate about the concepts she covered during her portion of the class. She was slightly disorganized in relaying her thoughts, but she corrected/caught her mistakes.Rate My Professors ↗
Uses tophat so you gotta go to lecture. Clearly very passionate about the topics, but a bit unorganized. Sometimes it felt like she didn't know what she was talking about and was just reading off the slides. A TON of content, way more than the first two units. Exam was decently straightforward, but very small details ended up on the exam.Rate My Professors ↗
Dr. Madison's unit was a lot of material, but super interesting. You can tell she is passionate about physiology and it makes lectures more engaging and she can often be funny. She is very organized and clear about what material we are responsible for knowing, which I really appreciated. Overall, I really enjoyed having her!Rate My Professors ↗
Her unit definitely contained the most content, but she was great at explaining everything. Her slides were well organized and had lots of visual aids which also helped a lot. If you fill out the learning objectives you'll do well on her exam.Rate My Professors ↗
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