Absolute worst class I have ever taken as a graduate student. You are given 72 hours to absorb a given unit and then are immediately tested on it that same week. The questions run the entire range of Bloom’s Taxonomy, yet the time between knowledge acquisition in lecture never changes. The professors clearly lack pedagogical training/education as the class structure is designed for you to memorize factoids for the quizzes and forget for the next unit. I was really excited to learn immunology, but that excitement quickly turned to dread waking up every morning and going to class. The professor changes every week and so that means the lecturing style, evaluation, and paper discussion logistics all change weekly too. There is no standardization of anything across evaluation materials or eve...read more

No, everything is very surface level. Nearly undergraduate high-level content. One professor asked us, a group of PhD students, if we even *knew* what a knockout mouse was. A group of PhD students. Unbelievable.

Boring, uninspiring, clearly knows what they research, but struggle to teach anything beyond what they themselves study.

Don’t take it. Switch programs if it is required.