<p>Has anyone here taken Introduction to Behavior? How was it in terms of courseload and difficulty level? Would it be more or less work than autotutorial physics, for example? Thanks!</p>
<p>haha i’d like to have this answered, too
are you doing 3, 4, or 5 credits?</p>
<p>behavior isn’t too bad in terms of the lecture. there is a whole lecture outline that you buy, and every lecture recording is posted online (because of this i did not even go to lecture for the last third of the course). the tests aren’t too bad - if you know the material well and understand the outlines, which usually tell you exactly what you need to know, you are fine. means are usually in the low 80s or high 70s. There are 2 prelims and a combined third prelim and final. the course is team taught by i think around 12 professors. some professors are pretty boring while others are phenomenal - particularly sherman (if you are planning on just using recordings, i highly recommend going to sherman’s lectures anyway, he is amazing). behavior is an average course i think in terms of difficulty - maybe like a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10. however, compared to the much more difficult neurobiology, it’s a 2.5. Once you take neuro you realize how much easier behavior is by comparison.</p>
<p>unfortunately the 4 credit option is a lot of work - more than you would think. on average there is a 2-3 page paper due in section every week, as well as a bee lab report and a few drafts of it. i honestly feel i did more writing for this course than either of my freshman writing seminars. some ta’s are good while others are not so much and grading heavily varies between ta’s, though the differences are accounted for when curving. one thing that kind of stinks is that the 4 credit and 3 credit options are curved separately. i don’t know much about the 5 credit option other than that it is heavily writing intensive.</p>
<p>i spent more time on this course than autotutorial physics, but that is also purely subjective and i also barely spent anytime on physics 101 since i found it to be extremely easy. i spent more time on orgo and orgo lab though. i really would only spend a bunch of time when the prelims were coming up, at which point i would basically spend a few days listening to recordings. since i skipped the entire last 3rd of the course i had to go through 13 hours of lecture recordings in the 2 days between the orgo final and the behavior final. so you could either spend a little bit of time each day on the course or cram to the max 2 days before the tests. hope this all helps!</p>
<p>“i honestly feel i did more writing for this course than either of my freshman writing seminars”
wow that sucks, but thanks for that info!!</p>
<p>Thanks! I want to take autotutorial physics but my student advisor doesn’t want me to take autotutorial physics with organic chemistry w/ lab. She says it’ll be too much work having two labs but aren’t the labs for Physics 101 a lot easier/less time consuming? Anyway, she wants me to take Intro to Behavior (I want to concentrate in Neuro and Behavior) or Evolutionary Biology my first semester at Cornell (I’m a transfer and she wants me to have a smooth transition into Cornell from a workload standpoint) but I think that these classes will probably require even more work so I’m torn…any advice?</p>
<p>orgo lab is a 3 hour lab that requires even more time outside of lab writing the lab reports. physics 101 lab varies from labs that take 15 minutes to an hour (with the exception of one long and annoying lab - i think the 3rd one). there are no reports, just easy sheets to fill out and notebook checks, which you do not even get directly graded on. in short, the physics labs in that class are extremely easy and i wouldn’t count that as having two labs, though orgo lab will be a lot of work. for 2 credits, orgo lab was the course i had to put the most effort into - unfortunately last year they started making it much more difficult than in previous years. you can take all those courses, but balance it out with one easy course and you should be fine. however, if you find physics difficult or have never taken a physics course before then you might want to consider saving it for next year</p>
<p>are there weekly blackboard quizes like in 2220?</p>
<p>there aren’t any weekly blackboard quizzes like in 2220, making life much less stressful (unless of course they decide to change it up this year).</p>
<p>^ok thats a relief haha</p>