FOOD * 2420 – Introduction to Food Microbiology F (3-0) [0.50]

Do not take this DE course! I don\'t recommend it! I wish I knew that the course is a total waste of time. The prof is so unresponsive. There\'s very little guidance and explanation about assignments. Very poor design of the course. All the units work require us to look for the answers/ notes. It\'s like we are teaching ourselves about every single things. We are given resources like Wikipedia and random websites. The textbook doesn\'t have all the answers we need. I don\'t want to drop the course because of the tuition fee I already paid and also I need the credit. Now I just hope I will pass the course. I don\'t recommend this course.

DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE!! Units literally consist of only answering random questions by using the textbook and websites (even wikipedia..). No course structure, just random information thrown at you. Final exam is 45% and you must pass to pass the entire class, which is unfair. Content was very boring, course was time consuming, readings were unnecessary, no guidance, no help from TAs, discussions were useless. Please save yourself the money and take another elective.

I do NOT recommend this course unless it\'s required and/or you have a few friends who you can share the workload with. I took this as an elective in my 3rd year of biosci, and I had to drop it after a few weeks (I\'ve never dropped a course before and I was really upset to lose so much money on its tuition). The course has an awful setup - you have a workbook and a textbook, but the textbook doesn\'t have all the answers, and the other comment is right - you spend all your time on google trying to find the answers. It is extremely time consuming, and would only be ok if you had a study group who split up the work and then shared it with each other. Aside from the workbook, the first assignment had terribly unclear instructions, and I would spend all day along with everyone else waiting for the professor to answer our discussion board questions, to which we would receive unclear responses. I\'m a very independent worker and I rarely use discussion boards to ask for clarification from professors, but this course was just awful. Very boring, time consuming, and frustrating course if you\'re considering it for an elective.

Similar to the other comment, I am taking this course DE right now as well. I am a Bio Sci major and I have already taken Microbiology classes so I went into this course thinking it would be easy - but as mentioned its awful. The prof is completely useless, 20% of your mark is based on discussions and peer evaluations which I don't agree with considering it's a distance education course. The assignments have very little to do with the course material and you are honestly expected to do everything on your own - there is little to no guidance. Considering this is a second year course, its A LOT of work. H

Taking it DE right now, the most tedious and dry course Ive ever experienced. Taught by saying "read these pages and look online" and then there is a blank workbook with questions that you have to fill out. Most of the answers you have to search online for, spend more time just looking for the answers on random sites/wikipedia than actually learning anything. Nobody participates in online discussions, the assignments are loosely based off the material and don't require any understanding of it. If you want a bird course that is just dull, mindless transcribing of answers from sources to a work book this is the course for you.