BIOL 201
General Biology I
Biology · Faculty of Arts and Sciences · 4 credits
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It doesn't really matter with whom you take this course. Mohammad Al Zein is the lab coordinator. He doesn't lecture the course. Noel and Zakaria are both good as lecturers. You have to register for both the lecture and the lab.
I achieved 95 on this course. I would recommend to take it with Dr Noel despite the negative feedback about him since he is the coordinator of the course and has more experience teaching it although he's not so friendly (you can't ask questions during lectures for example). The exam is common and all what you need to ace it is to study every single detail in the book.
Very fast pace. 90% of the lecture is reading from the slides. Lectures are useless, slides are very summarized. Focus on the book and CONNECT questions!
Noel is very monotonous and most of us find it really hard to focus with him. Sign in on the lectures for attendance and mute lol. The book is very comprehensive and has great examples. As a general rule read and understand the book and then memorize the information in his lecture slides for the assignments. The midterm and final will have way more details from the book so you might wanna have that down too. Do all the connect questions, always.
As for bio, kambris is really nice but boring and makes referrals to things he thinks you already know. I heard noel is better and more fun tho
noel is the same as kambris. However noel does before every lecture a quick review in which he passes over the main topics in the exam.
Bio, Noel has more experience teaching the course but he's not so friendly, Zakaria is great if you have questions etc, but he's used to teach students that already have a background in the subject so he might assume you know certain things that you don't. But personally i'd say don't bother attending. The book is your best friend, everything you need is in there, save your time and effort.