I loved Dr. Courey!!!! He was great at lecturing and you can really tell he cared so much about his students. His midterms were very doable if you studied the learning objectives and POGIL worksheets. I highly recommend taking this class with him. Most of these bad reviews are just because of the final. However, everything else went smoothly in his class and he curved the test so much and also curved the grading score to make a 91% an A. He is super considerate and listens to his students. TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HIM HE’S THE SWEETEST PERSON EVER!!!

Honestly, this class was pretty fair for the most part and I did very very well on all of the tests since I was keeping up with the work and really understanding things.

Like most people said already, the final was really something else. It was so different and so much harder than any test we had previously and I thank Dr. Courey for all he did to remedy that, but a lot of people were still screwed over.

This class is do-able you just gotta put in tons of effort and time. I never paid attention to live lectures because he would be covering new topics when there was a quiz coming up covering previous topics. I only participated for the learning catalytics, which are based on participation and not accuracy. I only started learning the material a few days before a quiz/test. He has TONS of materials and practice for you. I made sure to utilize everything he gave us.

1. Read over textbook for a general understanding, take notes
2. Watch lecture recordings and annotate on his slides
3. Make notes for each learning objective
4. Re-do his POGIL worksheets on your own
5. GO TO OFFICE HOURS
6. Do LA worksheets
7. Review PTL and Learning Catalytics
8. Do practice exams if there are any

Make sure you understand literally everything he says, all the questions asked in worksheets. Office hours are so so so important for that. I'm so thankful that his curve at the end bumped my final and overall grade up. He's very approachable as well, and Piazza helps so much. Generally, I don't feel comfortable asking questions but piazza came in clutch for me.