The professor of this class is great and he's very willing to sit down and listen to your opinions about a certain question. He gives back points on questions he thinks were unfair and that's something many of his students are thankful for. However, his exams are not easy, but they do range in around the B range. If you're a good test taker, I think you'll do fine in this class. However, I read the textbook and always went to class and still had a hard time on some of his exams. I recommend reading the textbook because it sometimes explained concepts better than he did in class, however he will teach additional concepts or examples outside of the textbook. Therefore, going to class is important. His class is all exams and no other assignments to help boost your grade which sucks, but that's all biology department classes. I think the content is very interesting and I enjoyed going to class. I just did not enjoy his exams. He also provides study guides for every exam on topics he'll emphasize but his study guides are not exclusive, meaning anything NOT listed on the study guide can also end up on the exam. Therefore, I recommend you look over everything but focus on topics he listed. The final is cumulative. He definitely gives tricky questions that sort of go against what is taught in class, in a way.

I absolutely loved Kawasaki! I really enjoyed this class. But I would only recommend Kawasaki to speak a little louder during his lectures because sometimes it was hard to hear him. But besides that, everything was good! The class was not hard at all. All you have to do is go over his lecture slides and watch the videos. You can refer back to the textbook if you do not understand something, but that is rare. His exams were fair. The test averages were always in the B/B+ range. It is not hard to achieve a good grade in this class.

The class overall was ok. Kawasaki is ok at lecturing but it was hard sometimes to understand what he was saying. He picks out important topics to cover during class but you should do the assigned readings from the textbook if you have time. For the tests, I would mainly focus on the stuff he covers in lecture, understand the videos he goes over in class, and read the chapters. I always felt behind when it came to reading the book so I mainly would focus on the lectures themselves. However if he pointed out topics that we should focus on from the textbook then I would read those sections. The average for the midterm one was 31.18/37 and 37/43 for midterm two. He gave us a study guide for the final and told us what to focus on so if you work on the study guide and read the pages he points out then you should do well on the final. The average on the final was 44.95/50. Midterms were 50 mintues long, but final was 2 hours long.The grading comes from the two exams and the final so you have to do well on the exams. An A started at 94 so it's an easy A- class but a hard A class. Only 6 people received an A while 18 students got A- (I got an A-) and 15 got B+. The class overall was worthwhile, but I didn't like it that much.