Erik Solhaug

Professor Solhaug takes an "effort-based" approach to grading, which means correctness is not a factor, and you will succeed in the class as long as you put your best foot forward. The lectures are engaging, and the weekly group work is an effective way to solidify course concepts.

Professor Solhaug is very lovely, very enthusiastic, and very passionate about teaching. While this was his first year teaching, I think he did an amazing job, but the content is so difficult to both teach and learn that it comes off as if he didn't do a good job, but he tries his best for sure. Lectures are indeed long and very dense, and very hard to understand. Jumping from Cell bio 145 to this class felt like a big step, having to relearn and teach myself a lot of the times, and while grading is effort based, I would advice thinking about taking it twice, or at least when changes to the curriculum are better. We had discussions almost every week about a paper, and while interesting, I wish the time was used to understand the concepts, and have a way to practice it, instead of cramming it all in just one lecture once a week.

Professor Solhaug is very lovely, very enthusiastic, and very passionate about teaching. While this was his first year teaching, I think he did an amazing job, but the content is so difficult to both teach and learn that it comes off as if he didn't do a good job, but he tries his best for sure. Lectures are indeed long and very dens …Read more

Prof is very kind and understanding and passionate which is why it sucks that the course fell a bit short in terms of content and usefulness, but it was also the first time the course was taught so hopefully the problems get worked out. This course is a genetics course. If you don't like genetics, do not take this course. If you don't already have a strong genetics background, maybe look elsewhere (it should definitely have molecular bio pre-reqs). Consists of a weekly lecture that is extremely content-heavy, weekly journal club, and usually 2-3 assignments due per week that can often feel like incredibly tedious busy work. Lab is fine, expectations are just a bit confusing especially for the required research project that the professor is pretty unhelpful with. Again, he's a lovely person, just generally not the most useful when working on research/trying to understand the details of concepts. It is effort-based which is lovely, but in general needs some work syllabus-wise for sure.

Prof is very kind and understanding and passionate which is why it sucks that the course fell a bit short in terms of content and usefulness, but it was also the first time the course was taught so hopefully the problems get worked out. This course is a genetics course. If you don't like genetics, do not take this course. If you don' …Read more