Professor
Biochemistry
PHD 1982 Indiana University
60.0% of students reported.
The degree of boredom I experienced during this section defied the limits of possibility. Slides were dense and badly written- at least 20 lines of text per slide that I condensed into 6 words. 30% of material is untested and "FYI", giving much-needed time during lecture for you to go back and figure out what happened in the previous slides.
Personally, I found his lectures pretty hard to follow. There was a lot of information and I felt like his lectures jumped from one topic to another with no order. There was also a lot of information on the lectures slides that you didn't need to know which made it pretty difficult to study for the exams since there was just so much information.
Professor Amasino's lectures were always very interesting. Outside of class he was also very friendly and showed he cared about the students.
Professor Amasino's lecture slides were very dense and had lots of material to take in but he does his best to break them down. The slides are also old but he does make clear what you need to know.
Had a lot of material in his lectures, but a lot of it was just "historical context." Kind of a boring guy to listen to, but his exam was just like the practice exams. I wouldn't mind taking a class from him again, but I wouldn't jump at the opportunity to either.
Dr. Amasino brings years of knowledge to bear on his teaching and this very clear in his lectures. However, as with most professors in STEM, he lacks the ability to truly explain the concepts, because they are not trained in teaching, they are trained in their subjects. Reads off slides and does not explain stuff. Not very accessible.
Dr. Amasino is a great professor. You can tell from the way he lectures that he's very passionate about biochemistry and wants his students to understand the material well. I highly recommend going and watching every lecture because his unit has lots of complex pathways that he explains in a way that will help answer every exam question.
Dr. Amasino's lecturing style was super engaging and I loved his passion for the material. I really liked that he scattered multiple choice questions (similar to what was on exams) throughout the lectures. I felt his section (Unit 2) was dense & definitely the hardest, but his fantastic, in-depth explanations made it doable.
Amasino's lectures were dense, but really fun to watch since he is very passionate about the content he's teaching. That passion is really encouraging and inspires learning. His multiple choice tests were straightforward rote memorization that often came down to understanding redox reactions and equilibria contextualized in catabolic cycles.
Watch/go to the lectures- they're straightforward and cover everything you need to know for the exams. Do the practice worksheets! I appreciated the historical and "fyi" tidbits he included as it gave context to the material and kept things from feeling monotonous . It's clear that he is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about biochemistry.
Dr. Amasino is very clear on what he will test on. His lectures are straightforward and he does a great job of explaining the cycles and concepts. You can tell he's very passionate about biochemistry and wants students to understand the how his lectures apply to real-life scenarios.
His exam was very straight-forward. He meant it when he said you don't need to know little details. I loved hearing the history he added into lectures as well.
Memorize the cycles... inside and out! I got a 91 on the exam, he is very straighforward