Absolutely horrible. Tests and exams are unnecessarily hard. Tutorials are useless and give more work to do, especially PBL, which is useless. Professor Dushoff's section is bad, but Kolasa's section is worse. I would say that the whole course can be expressed as useless.

Evolution and ecology

Don't take this course if not needed, as it is a waste of time.

Dushoff's handouts were okay as they made you listen to what he was saying. Kolassa's lectures are basically useless as he goes right off the textbook and you can barely hear what he's saying. It's more productive to jsut take notes off the book. PBL project is absolutely horrible and takes up way too much time. Dushoff's questions are hard for no reason on exams, and there is not a lot of practice questions that are of the same difficulty as the exams.

Dushoff is defintely better than Kolassa but overall both are okay, have their pros and cons

It's similar to grade 11 bio so it's not impossible to do well

This class is dreadful and anyone who willingly takes it amazes me. The tests are made WAY too hard and on niche topics that barely even got looked at, when you start the course you'll think dushoff is bad but just wait till the second prof comes in. Don't take this course if u don't need it.

not to take it.

Pretty dry content and often copied straight from the textbook. Then the exam questions were about the most obscure examples that were only mentioned once. Probably the most skipped lecture of first year.

Dushoff can be very entertaining at times and made the content bearable; Kolasa made some very funny jokes that offered moments of entertainment but the way he lectures puts you to sleep.

Don't take it as an elective.