Kate Wassum is an incredible professor. You can really tell she takes time to precisely organize every lecture and slide. I especially benefited from her use of Break & Review slides every 10 -15 minutes, as they really helped me to solidify my knowledge of the material. She seems like a very intelligent person, and she even uses new and unique assignments, such as the option to post a twitter thread summary of a research paper, which I thought was interesting. Also, I found her on Twitter, and her page is pretty fun to read. Overall great professor, and great module!

Dr. Wassum is clearly a seasoned professor with a lot of teaching experience. Her slides were well organized, with summary slides every so often, and her lectures were interesting and easy to follow. It is important to take your own notes though (as opposed to just copying down slides) as most of what she goes over are relevant studies and her slides just show the graphs. I wasn't super passionate about the material (101C is much different from the molecular/cellular stuff we did in 101A and 101B), but Dr. Wassum was still very interesting to listen to. Her test was straightforward and she explained ahead of time what to expect and gave us practice questions, so everyone did pretty well. I would consider taking another class with her.

Review for all the 101C professors during Spring 2022

The legend is real, 101C is SO much better than A and B and makes it all worth it. It will no longer consume your time and I think I ended up with a 99% and this was the module I studied for the least. Everything is bruin cast.

GRADING: 25% for each exam (ALL MULTIPLE CHOICE!! OPEN NOTE!! 30 qestions in 1h15, with 1 or 2 bonus point questions), no mandatory discussion, 20% for research paper summaries which will take you at max 1-2h a week and I got full credit every time (only need to do 7 total and you can drop the rest). 5% for clinical correlation (only one clinical correlation needed as you can drop the second). No seminars this time.

Wassum: My favourite professor of the entire series. Good and complete slides. Talks about addiction and a lot of cool psychology stuff. Watch her lectures and make some additional notes to her slides and you are fine. I could understand everything the 1st time I watched as the concepts are much more psych based. No more memorising random ion channels and electrode potentials and stuff… I loved her module.

Adi: His slides have less text so you end up having to make more complementary notes. 90% of the stuff I got the first time watching, others I had to watch again to clarify it. But once again it’s so much better than A and B. He’s a good and clear lecturer and easy to follow.

Suthana: my least favourite because her slides really have no text and she’s a bit all over the place when teaching some parts. However, still better than any A and B module! Either get old notes form someone or just take a bit more time writing stuff down during her videos. I let all her lectures pile up and then just watched them all in 3-4 days during finals week and got a 97% on her exam (my worst score of the 3 lol). The majority of the stuff is very easy to get, a couple concepts you might need to go back a bit. But again, the contents are so much easier and interesting to follow along than A and B.

Tip: try to get good notes form someone that already took the class. I did this from someone that had really good notes and essentially all I had to do was watch about 6 lectures per professor, read the notes as I went along and add any extra info that might be missing, and I was done. So took me about 12-15h to do this for each module and I was good to go to get an A. Read it all once or twice before the final so you can find stuff quickly during the test, and you’re good. If you don’t have any notes, then it will take you a bit longer to get through each lecture so that you can make notes (exams are open note, so it really is worth having good notes), but again, the class is really easy to follow so you won’t have any trouble doing this!

Overall 101C is SO much better than the rest of the series. The professors are good lecturers for the most part, the concepts are actually cool and interesting and easy to follow. Even if you don’t have a neuro background you can probably follow the majority of the lectures. I really enjoyed the stuff we leant, and it felt so good to not have to put in that much effort into the class to do really well on the exams. Also it’s all multiple choice, and no more quizzes. So can’t get much better than that!