Reviews of professor Amanda Yonan

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Loved her class. Her exams are all free-response (drawing/short answer), but if you study and work on ALL practice problems, you will pass. She never gave us a question we havent seen before in class or discussion, and the study guides are very true to the exams. Go to discussion, its extra credit. Annotate the slides in class too. She also curves

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This lab isn't hard, it is just a lot of work. The labs are long and there was a lot of busy work. The most useful part of this class is learning how to write a scientific paper. Rubrics are given for writing assignment and follow those exactly for a good grade. The TAs are nice and try to help. Go to BIO Help Center for extra credit.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a really good bio teacher! She cares about her students and she is super knowledgeable in the subject. The lectures and materials are interesting, however, the test are pretty hard. Most were curved by 15% because the averages were so low. A lot of the tests are seeing that you can apply what you learned in the lecture. Good teacher tho!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you actually want to LEARN genetics, Dr. Yonan's class is for you. It is by no means an easy A but she really wants you to learn the material not just memorize the slides or definitions. Tests are all free response problems that she covers during her practice days. GO TO PRACTICE DAYS she gives you everything you need for the test!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed taking Dr. Yonan's bio class, but I took it over the summer and it was INTENSE. The group discussion classes were very difficult in the 5-week time span. That being said, I did well and I thought she was a good professor. The material was interesting.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly her class was just hard to catch onto. She had 4 exams all free response, and I failed the first two because I couldn't figure out how to study for them. Lecture doesn't help, the book does nothing, and the discussion sheets (that were optional but worth extra credit) semi helped. She's so knowledgable, but doesn't know how to dumb it down