Genetics Homework:
>Read 40 pages of the textbook
>Memorize 20 new vocabulary words
>Do 35 problems matching vocab words with descriptions (I haven't seen this type of shit since high school)
>Read and interpret 12 different pedigree trees
Why do biology professors (and chem professors) teach like this?
I'm graduating with a degree in math this semester, and the last STEM course I'm taking is an intro to genetics, because I'm interested in mathematical biology, especially stuff like population dynamics, evolution, and neuroscience. The class itself is interest, and it's fairly challenging, but it's not so difficult that I can't follow along or feel stressed. It's all pretty straightforward stuff, for the most part.
It just seems like a retarded work load, and like a lot of "drilling". This doesn't really seem like an effective way of learning the material. It just seems very different from the teaching style and the homework I've gotten used to in math+CS classes I've been taking. Is there a reason for this? It's kind of annoying but I'm not really that bothered by it, I just find it interesting, because it seems like a trend. I haven't spent a lot of time in chemistry or biology classrooms, but now that I'm taking this class, I remember by biology and chemistry classes in high school also involving a tone of this type of shit, as well as the intro chem and biology I had to take at my uni as a STEM freshman/sophomore. I genuinely think it would be more effective if they actually tried to cover less material, but focused on really analyzing the philosophical, logical and mathematical details of these topics. Is this just cope by second rate biology professors?
>Read 40 pages of the textbook
>Memorize 20 new vocabulary words
>Do 35 problems matching vocab words with descriptions (I haven't seen this type of shit since high school)
>Read and interpret 12 different pedigree trees
Why do biology professors (and chem professors) teach like this?
I'm graduating with a degree in math this semester, and the last STEM course I'm taking is an intro to genetics, because I'm interested in mathematical biology, especially stuff like population dynamics, evolution, and neuroscience. The class itself is interest, and it's fairly challenging, but it's not so difficult that I can't follow along or feel stressed. It's all pretty straightforward stuff, for the most part.
It just seems like a retarded work load, and like a lot of "drilling". This doesn't really seem like an effective way of learning the material. It just seems very different from the teaching style and the homework I've gotten used to in math+CS classes I've been taking. Is there a reason for this? It's kind of annoying but I'm not really that bothered by it, I just find it interesting, because it seems like a trend. I haven't spent a lot of time in chemistry or biology classrooms, but now that I'm taking this class, I remember by biology and chemistry classes in high school also involving a tone of this type of shit, as well as the intro chem and biology I had to take at my uni as a STEM freshman/sophomore. I genuinely think it would be more effective if they actually tried to cover less material, but focused on really analyzing the philosophical, logical and mathematical details of these topics. Is this just cope by second rate biology professors?
