Professor: Lysaght Course format: Lecture w/section Number of respondents: 30 Total Enrollment: 32 Class Composition: Froshs: 2 Sophs: 1 Jrs: 13 Srs: 14 Concs: ? Non-Concs: ? Don't Know: ?

Instructor Average: 1.22 Course Average: 1.30

“Organ Replacement” exposes students to current methods of organ replacement and the underlying physiological principles. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach, looking at the field from technological, developmental, economic, and biological standpoints. The stated prerequisites for this course consist of either Bio 20, Bio 17 or Bio 80. However, most reviewers thought that a foundation in basic biology, genetics, immunology, and biomaterials were helpful, but by no means essential.

Professor Lysaght was considered by his students to be an extremely effective teacher, who was knowledgeable, enthusiastic, always prepared, organized, energetic, friendly, and funny. He gave “captivating lectures” and his handouts were very useful. Class members thought that the guest lectures were also good. Lysaght was very receptive to questions and tailored the lectures to class members’ needs and backgrounds.

As expected, respondents gave the assigned readings mixed reviews. Different students liked various aspects of the readings more than others. “Non-technical readings were eye-opening.” “Web pages were very clear.” “Course packet readings were detailed.” Overall, students found most of them to be relevant and useful, although some were more tedious than others. In terms of grading criteria for this course, the work load consisted of one mid-term, one final, a presentation, a web-page design, and nine weekly problem sets. The majority of survey correspondent deemed this to be a manageable time commitment.

Class members spent between four to seven hours per week on the course, which matched most people’s expectations. Reviewers gave an unprecedented 24-person-unanimous endorsement for the class. Comments included: “take it,” “an amazing course,” “do it,” “great class,” “definitely yes,” and “awesome!” Although several warned fellow students to be prepared for a lot of work, reviewers gave this class a resounding two-thumbs-up!

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