Amanda Crocker

Crocker teaches a flipped classroom and all of the homework for the week is due on Mondays (including prelabs) even though the class meets three times a week. This made Monday's homework load heavy, but the rest of the week was easy. Sometimes you would go to lecture and just sit in silence working on a worksheet, which felt unproductive at times.

This class is primarily a biology lab with occasional references to neuroscience. The experiments we ran were fascinating, however, the material was not fully explained. Each group presented a brief presentation on specimen related to neuroscience.

Amanda Crocker is an incredibly smart and qualified professor. However, she is not good at explaining concepts at a beginner level during class lectures. 251 was also a flipped classroom, so we had to come into class prepared and knowing the material (ie. terms, concepts, etc.). Every Friday, we would have quizzes to test our understanding of the material which were 10 questions. Crocker was very flexible with when and where you took the quizzes. Although she would leave time at the end of class on Fridays, if you communicated with her you could take them at a different time on Friday in a separate location or take the quiz on Monday if you did not feel prepared. She did not have formal, sit down exams. Instead, we were given 3 complex questions that we had to answer and explain in video format. Overall, the amount of work required for this class was overwhelming, and I would not take it again.

Amanda Crocker is an incredibly smart and qualified professor. However, she is not good at explaining concepts at a beginner level during class lectures. 251 was also a flipped classroom, so we had to come into class prepared and knowing the material (ie. terms, concepts, etc.). Every Friday, we would have quizzes to test our underst …Read more