RELG 2650

Nichole is the bomb! Nuff said

You need to take this class cause Professor Flores is great! This course is really interesting. She is very knowledgeable and also an engaging professor. There is quite a bit of reading for this class, but with help from the TA’s and Flores, it’s very possible to get a good grade. You have to attend 3 events outside of the classroom that correlate to “Bioethics”, complete 3 response papers, midterm, and a final. If you take good notes, and READ you should do good in the class. The TA’s were very helpful, I personally just wouldn’t recommend Sorgen as a TA-I guess he knows his stuff, but his explanations and clarifications never really helped me.

Very easy course, what is in the assigned readings is restated in lecture so there's no need to both go to class and read, one will suffice. Students have almost no contact with Professor Flores and she has no role in your grade, everything about the grade (participation, essays, tests) is decided by the TA. Evan was a great TA.

Great and interesting class! Don't really need to do the readings because she goes over them in class and the lectures are online. Flores is always happy to help outside of class and clearly is very knowledgeable in the subject area.

This class is essentially "read 100 pages, then in lecture we'll summarize the readings." That's it. Flores hardly offers new information in her lectures. The TA's are generally pretty good, however. I took this as a general elective because I thought it might provide more insight into law/public policy (because it was mentioned in the syllabus) but this class is really aimed much more at pre-meds. I'd highly advise you not take this class unless you have to.

I recommend this class to all my friends! It is very easy to do well because tests are based around the readings, which Flores goes over in lecture and then the TAs go over again in discussion. The subject matter is very interesting because it looks at different perspectives on current issues like abortion, physician assisted suicide, organ donation, and more. It makes you a much more understanding and informed citizen, and compliments a pre-health major or anyone interested in public policy. Friday lecture is actually just a an optional movie every other week. There is a midterm, final, and three two page papers that are graded on a check, check plus, or check minus system, and readings are much less than for a history class.

This class was disappointing. After reading so many positive reviews I was excited to jump into this class. However, they restructured the class and tests this year and made it unreasonable. This class takes itself way too seriously and demands us to know irrelevant things like 'being able to match 60 vocab words with 20 different papers all talking about the same thing.' My TA sent out an email after the first essay and said that the general essay gets an 85% and only those that 'shine' get higher whatever that means. As someone wanting to take an interesting class away from the burden of regular biology classes, this class ended up being a thorn in my side. Some of the topics were interesting and Nicole is not a bad lecturer, but it is definitely not worth the amount of time this class demands. Think carefully before taking this class and don't get Eric Hilker as your TA.

This class is so interesting, highly recommend. Flores is so sweet and you learn a lot, though there's a lot of reading. The tests aren't too hard, but you do have to study.

Nicole isn't too shabby, and the TA's were wonderful! It's a shame that the TA's will probably be different next year, but Kyle made this class wonderful. I found Dr. Flores' presentations to be redundant and not the most intriguing or clarifying, but discussion sections made all the difference. Kyle provided insight and summaries that really helped me to understand and synthesize the material. Further, he wrote the tests and was a fair grader; TA's are entirely responsible for your grade in this course. It is also worth noting that the final is 40% of your course grade-- which can be either very helpful or detrimental. Overall, I enjoyed this class, but it is somewhat harder to get an A over an A- due to the limited number of grades in this course (3 reading responses, midterm, final, and participation grade)

I really enjoyed this course, and the topics it discussed. As much as I liked Flores as a person, I did find her lectures to lack any sort of intrigue. We were discussing really cool topics but somehow her powerpoint just didn't reinforce that. I loved discussion, and I was a huge fan of my TA Eric. He didn't force us to sit in awkward silences, would fill them if need be, always answered our questions, and really focused on topics that we saw on the midterm. The class was super interesting, and covered a lot of modern topics. They changed it to one response paper, making the workload very manageable too.