Seeing in which there are no reviews, I hope this review is helpful to any future pathways student :). This course consists of a 3 hour lab that is twice a week and a lecture that is 2 hours once a week. The lab has different aspects in which there are mini-lectures where there is important information that is helpful to what we will do in lab but also information that will be on quizzes. You go through one lab protocol a week-ish. While what you do in lab is not graded, you are graded on a notebook in which you write about the protocol you performed, materials used, results, analysis, and hypothesis. There will be a rubric you should follow closely to ensure you get max points (TA doesn't grade harsh though). Lecture is obviously a lecture led by Dr. Johnson in which you will get A LOT of information but most of it will be on quizzes but also as mentioned previously important to the lab but also important for your grant proposals! Your grant proposals are expected of you a little later in the quarter but it's extremely important that you have a good understanding of the results and what you are doing in the lab so that your grant proposal makes sense. Your first grant proposal is your midterm, in which you basically synthesize some results before sequencing (trust, this will make sense later) and make a hypothesis on where your insertion is. Make sure you look at the yeast genome for this, don't make a random guess, try to make it make sense even though you are technically guessing. And your final is made up of a presentation and your final grant proposal where you get definitive results from the genome and you make a hypothesis on what that insertion means. I was very intimidated and nervous to take this class, but the TA, Dr. Johnson, and Dr. Azad want to see you thrive!! Go to their office house and ask all the questions you have. The quizzes can be kind of hard so defining make sure you go to office hours to go over the practice quizzes. Don't stress yourselves out, this class can look hard, but effort is definitely necessary. Also they reccomend taking this class with either LS7 and GE or CHEM14 with a GE!! AND I AGREEE!!!. I took 7c, 14a, and this class and it was brutal but I managed with the grades I wanted because I got sleepless nights and ran on no sleep sometimes 😭 While it might put you behind in the series, I think you should take their advice and take one core class and a ge with this class, don't torture yourselves, you'll be ahead of many by getting research experience in your first year, while people don't usually start in their 3rd year. SAVOR THIS CLASS, IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE!! LOVE THE PATHWAYS COMMUNITY