Ended with an A- when I had a C during the semester, so don't get caught up on your current grade in the course. It's not necessary to go to class considering that the lectures are recorded, but I went for the sake of keeping myself accountable so that when I studied for exams by watching the recorded lectures, I had already seen the material before.

Content isn't really useful but it's a necessary course for BCN majors.

Knackstedt talks slowly and monotonously and is very hesitant to curve grades at the end of the semester. She didn't curve for my class.

Don't read the textbook--all exam content is from exams. Memorize ALL slide content--everything is fair game, even on the optional final exam. Spend a few days before the exam watching the recorded lectures and committing the information to memory and you will get at least a B on the exams. Get SONA research participation out of the way early so that you're not stressed at the end of the semester.

The material is interesting but is very dense. The professor made it more difficult than it needed to be by giving multiple choice exams with ambiguous questions with answers that could easily be argued to be correct depending on how specific of an answer the question was looking for. She also gave some questions that had multiple correct answer choices but no way to select them all (although most questions had a choice that said something like "both A and B are correct")

The content is useful if you are pre-health.

The professor cared about the material but often acted condescending towards students during office hours.

Memorize everything you can using flashcards. Learning to draw neurotransmitter and sensory pathways from memory is extremely useful.