Aleister Saunders
| School: | Drexel University |
| Department: | Biology |
| Location: | Philadelphia, PA |
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He's fun, and extremely helpful. He doesn't mind you dropping into his office any time to ask a quick question
Cons: The material is insanely intricate. Take good notes. Read the book.
The TA's are atrocious. They don't know the material any more than you do. The quizzes are worth about 30% of your grade, and are given every week. The material is written by different people. So Dr. Saunders may have used one term for a concept, and it will be called something different on the quiz. So read the book
There are too many different people involved in this class. If it were just Dr. Saunders, it would have been a fair class. There was obviously little communication between the 2 professors, and the TA's. No the average quiz grades are about a 50%. So don't freak out if you bomb your quizzes. Just go and ask. He's a fair grader
Initially, I was afraid to take Dr. Saunders for Bio 218 because I heard rumors that his courses were difficult. However, through my own experience, I managed to get an A in the course. His style of teaching is superb. His exams are all lecture-based, so attend lecture.
Be sure to devote a lot of time to this class to pull an A!
His powerpoints and lectures are helpful
He cares that we learn in his class
Cons: Difficult class
Great guy!
You need to know a lot of detail and also know the processes/concepts.
It was a very difficult class, but he provides a back exam (no answers, I understand that he wants us to find the answer, but it honestly just adds unnecessary time to our studying) and uses a few of the quiz questions on the exam.
The weekly quizzes helped me keep up with my studying, but brought my grade down.
I like the idea of shifting to online quizzes, but they need to be at the end of recitation. If they're at the beginning, the recitation teacher hasn't had time to go over any of the material.
Cons: This is the hardest class i've taken yet as a bio major (although i'm sure it will get harder). He has very difficult fill in the blank exams, and his quizzes are hard as well. studied for this class every night, but it was a class i didn't mind studying for.
Cons: The exam and quizes for this class were ridiculous!! There is only one midterm and quizes every week which make this 4 point credit class even more stressful. The exams are in a short answer and multiple choice style. The midterm was a lot harder on the final which was actually fair. Definetely stay on your game for this class but don't expect this to be an easy A.
Cons: Exams are incredibly hard and you must know every minute detail in the chapters. Be prepared to be asked the size of a genome or which chromosome a gene is located on. VERY DETAIL SPECIFIC, like any other bio class
Stay on top of your reading and re-read his lectures slides before weekly quizzes and you'll do fine. DO NOT fall behind
Student-teacher interaction.
Cons: Tests are considered hard only because there's WAY too much to study for.
Boring class.
His class is boring. Way too many things to study. Take this class only if all your other classes are easy and those teachers do not give you too many assignments.
Cons: you have to read everything and memorize every detail
Cons: test questions are fill in mostly and can be very vague.
overall the course takes a lot of work and is time consuming but succeeding is plausible if the time is put in
I assure you will get an A if you do the following:
Read the chapter before every class to insure you make the "connections" in lecture
Review his lecture slides once a week
outline every chapter, so you dont have to reread for the final and midterm.
DONT fall behind, you won't catch up
Dr. Saunders...thank you
His teaching methids were a bit crude or at the very least unstylized, he pretty muc read the slides to us an dhad to rush, he admitted he was cramming 15 weeks worth of material into the 10 week Drexel schedule- I can tblame him for any flaws in his teaching directly, given it wa shis first term, and that it was winter tiem with missed school days and he was being told by the dept what to do.
He gave us a take home final which somehow i bombed very badly...but I still got a B for the course. Presumably with a boost of extra studying it was an A course.
as a side note- he always answers his email and is polite about things, which I feel significantly improves the teacher/student dialogue when you need help with something. His attitude and style seems contradictory to some of my other experiences in the bio dept- thumbs up.
this professor is a great guy- just keep up with the readings and ask questions!!!