Mark Spritzer

The lecture part of this course was slideshows that were spoken at us, and then a couple of exams that required direct memorization of the content. You definitely end up memorizing a lot of pathways and names, which is useful. I can't say this is my favorite biology course, but it is interesting, particularly if you get into cell biology. The structure of the course was easy to follow, and matched with the textbook readings, which is nice.

The lecture part of this course was slideshows that were spoken at us, and then a couple of exams that required direct memorization of the content. You definitely end up memorizing a lot of pathways and names, which is useful. I can't say this is my favorite biology course, but it is interesting, particularly if you get into cell bio …Read more

Spritzers exams have a lot of content but are very fair. As long as you take notes and review material from the slides, he gives you everything needed for the exams. They aren't easy but I learned so much in this class and found it really rewarding. Weeks with exams had more work, but most weeks I found myself spending very little time out of class on this course. The weekly discussion questions were not difficult and usually as long as you payed attention to the lecture, there was no need to read the textbook

Spritzers exams have a lot of content but are very fair. As long as you take notes and review material from the slides, he gives you everything needed for the exams. They aren't easy but I learned so much in this class and found it really rewarding. Weeks with exams had more work, but most weeks I found myself spending very little ti …Read more

I honestly can't recommend this class enough! By far my favorite class I've taken at Midd! It's so fun and relatively easy, while still feeling like you are learning a lot! Spritzer prints off the slide and in lecture you annotate the slides all together, creating detailed notes. Labs are super fun and hands on sometimes they are outside or in the lab, working with different animals (fish, squirrels, birds, rats, crayfish, etc.), and you only have to write 2 full lab reports, and then one final project where you and your lab partner design an experiment. The exams are multiple choice and discussion questions, and are relatively predictable, usually you can score pretty well on them if you review all of the slide-based notes from class. Spritzer is a great lecturer, and a really nice person who's super excited to teach about animals, but he is a little socially awkward if you go to his office hours :)

I honestly can't recommend this class enough! By far my favorite class I've taken at Midd! It's so fun and relatively easy, while still feeling like you are learning a lot! Spritzer prints off the slide and in lecture you annotate the slides all together, creating detailed notes. Labs are super fun and hands on sometimes they are out …Read more