Grace Spatafora

Spatafora is an incredible lecturer but her exams are extremely difficult. This course should not be stacked with more than one other MBBC/BIO/CHEM/PHYS course. She is very helpful in office hours and will write you an incredible letter of recommendation if you ever need it. She is an iconic professor but be ready for a GPA hit or a CR/NCR situation.

I took this class with Solhaug, and it was super chill. All exams were take-home, and you could get away with not doing too much reading and still pass the class. He did kind of ask for a lot with the side projects, and he did require attendance on certain days.

Professor Spatafora is very knowledgeable and as a result she flys through the class material. At times her lectures jump around which made it hard to follow and I would have struggled had I not taken AP biology and already had a solid understanding of the material. The exams were difficult even after studying a lot because of the style of multiple choice. There was not much homework but on exam/quiz weeks I put in a lot of time which counterbalanced the other weeks where there was very little work for the class. I would recommend this course if you want to have a very solid understanding of cell bio, but not if you want an easy version of the course. I learned a lot.

Professor Spatafora is very knowledgeable and as a result she flys through the class material. At times her lectures jump around which made it hard to follow and I would have struggled had I not taken AP biology and already had a solid understanding of the material. The exams were difficult even after studying a lot because of the st …Read more