Should not be your favourite class but its mandatory and you'll survive it. Hard to fail if you hand stuff in. Some classes are moderately interesting and others are quite painful. There is time to work on assignments in class which is nice.

Lots of reading scientific papers, a couple essays, and a few presentations. Most classes include some sort of discussion either in small groups or as a class so sit beside other keeners if that is your sort of thing. The essays are marked relatively harshly but the other little assignments are easy to get a 90+ on. I really enjoyed the final journal club assignment but that was by virtue of a lovely group.

Professor Ruscher was a pretty generous marker and seemed to genuinely care about the course and students. Lots of opportunities for questions and feedbacks (marked and not). Pick your professor carefully as the course experience/grade is very dependent on the prof.

Your grade isn't going to be particularly high but basically no one else will have a high grade either. Show up, try to participate (made it more enjoyable for me), do the work but don't stress it too much.

great class. It was interesting enough but some of the course material felt useless. The end of the term is pretty busy but manageable. Which they'd given us more time to work on it in class instead of doing boring activities.

Learning to write a paper and research was super useful, I've applied it to most of my courses

She was amazing, really caring and gave good advice.