I took this class virtually in Fall 2020 with Dr. Johnson and Dr. Campbell and just for clarity I will be writing more about my experience with Dr. Johnson under her profile, although the information about the class will be the same. My tl;dr of this class would be: do not take it virtual! While the professors attempted to alter the class so that it would be more manageable virtually, I had an awful experience with their alterations and ended up not enjoying a class that should've had interesting content.

The course breakdown was brutal:
4 multiple choice tests, each covering 4 lectures (2 weeks), each worth 25 points and 25% of the final grade.
This means that every point you lost in a multiple choice question meant losing 1 point off your final grade.
Dr. Johnson's tests were rough and I wrote more about that under her profile. Dr. Campbell's tests were immediately more clear, well-written and all around felt more fair. When the course changed to his teaching, it immediately felt improved. I just finished my final so I do not know the averages of the last test, but the first test had an average of 18.3/25 = 73.2% (later scaled and then unscaled... to being out of 25, where Dr. Johnson gave back points to 2 questions that too many people -- fewer than 10% -- got right). The second test had an average of 14.4/25 = 57.6,% and then the professorial team ended up giving everyone 4 points back so the average was 18.4/25. The third test, by Dr. Campbell, had an average of 19.3/25 = 77% and then he added back 1 point for everyone. Note here that the test averages were very low for a class where losing 1 point meant losing 1 percent of your grade. Each test was available for 40 minutes and this caused me so much stress. Additionally, the professors did not publish the tests after we took them, which doesn't make much sense because I didn't know how I lost points. We could ask questions about the tests in discussion, but it was all verbal and was really confusing. I dislike that the professors didn't give us any access.

This class had not used multiple choice exams before, previously it used short answer, and while this change was made to accommodate for COVID, it definitely made this course more stressful because molecular techniques and experimental test questions do not lend themselves well to multiple choice questions.
Anyway, the original grading scheme was that <91 is a B, and the professors ended up changing the grades so that <80 was a B, which is really indicative of how low grades were on tests. They did not make this change until probably week 8, which left me and other students being very stressed about our grades for most of the quarter.

One nice thing about this class is that I took it alongside MIMG 101 and they complimented each other well. I would recommend taking them together, although MIMG 101 is a lot of work! Also, this class had very little workload. There were two pre-recorded lectures each week, and the professors chose to use the class time for a sort of office hours event where they let students ask questions about the lectures. They originally were not going to record this and were hesitant to (not sure why...big pet peeve that professors intentionally hold back information) but eventually did. There was also an optional discussion section once per week with a worksheet, also published online, about the material of the preceding week and sometimes the opportunity to go over the tests. Dr. Campbell felt more responsive in his emails when students contacted him about the tests, and seemed like a genuinely kind and caring person.

Overall, I feel that this class has the potential to be good, but definitely was not well organized this time around. I feel that is likely a product of it being virtual, and I'm hoping that since this was the professors' first time teaching it virtually, if you take it virtually in the future, it will be a better experience.

The content you learn in this class is very interesting malaria, leishmaniasis, worms etc. However, the content is overshadowed through the dry lectures, tiny details, and little help from outside resources as most of the science learned in this class is very experimental and thus not very extensively studied or made available. Campbell was a very dry lecturer, his portion of the class was very detailed and memorization based so you have to know everything. I would recommend taking this class if you like learning about diseases, the average for the final was a 54% take that as how tedious this class could be. At least the tests weren't cumulative essentially it was 3 midterms, there are better MIMG electives to take in the winter.