<p>Hi! Has anyone taken David Spiller for BIS001B? How was it? Were there any labs? How were the midterms and final? </p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as the BIS 1ABC series anymore. It’s now BIS 2ABC. Do you mean BIS 2B? </p>
<p>Yes, there is a lab portion for BIS 2B. There is a pre-lab that you must submit either in person or via Smartsite (depends on your professor. I had Dr. Strong and Dr. Keen when I took BIS 2B and we had to submit our prelab on Smartsite–there’s an electronic version that your professor will make available to you if this is the case. Most BIS 2 professors will have you submit your prelab electronically, but if you have issues with this you’re allowed to turn in a hardcopy to your TA) on Monday by 9am the week that you have a lab, and then postlabs are due the following week (hardcopy–there’s no electronic version of post labs like there is for prelabs). </p>
<p>From reviews on ratemyprofessors, it seems like Dr. Spiller is a decent professor–even though there’s only 5 reviews, all of are positive, and it seems like the average on his exams is a B/B-.</p>
<p>yeah, sorry i mean BIS 2B… So do all the BIS and HDE classes require labs?:(</p>
<p>Nope; take a look at [url=<a href=“http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/programs/bis/biscourses.html]this”>http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/programs/bis/biscourses.html]this</a> page<a href=“it%20lists%20all%20the%20BIS%20courses”>/url</a>; if it says “laboratory” in the description, then there is a lab.</p>
<p>In HDE, the only classes that have labs are HDE 120 (Research Methods in Human Development) and HDE 140L (Laboratory in Early Childhood; must be taken concurrently with HDE 140. However, you don’t need to take either of the 140 course if you’re not aiming to deal with children).</p>
<p>Don’t worry, the BIS 2B and BIS 2C labs are super easy though–it’s mostly observations.</p>
<p>Ohh i see. Thanks a lot! 
Because I was thinking of doing a minor in Psychology, and some of the the prerequisites for the courses are BIS and HDE courses. I am not really a fan of labs, so if there are hard labs to do for those courses, I might have to reconsider that :</p>