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Amasino is passionate but not super good at lectures like the other 3 professors. He doesn't try as hard as other professors to engage with the class, and this might be also due to a more difficult Catabolism unit. The class is exam heavy with 4 exams but they are noncumulative and easy as long as you draw out pathways and do the practice exams.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
Professor Amasino's lectures were always very interesting. Outside of class he was also very friendly and showed he cared about the students.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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