Professor
Gordon Fain
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Avoid Fain for LS2. He is a good lecturer but his midterm and final was ridiculous. His exams aren't only what is on the slides for his power points but his questions require the most intricate details he barely went over in class. He's really nice in lecture- but one-on-one in person he's can be a jerk. Other than that, good luck!
Avoid Fain for LS2. He is a good lecturer but his midterm and final was ridiculous. His exams aren't only what is on the slides for his power points but his questions require the most intricate details he barely went over in class. He's really nice in lecture- but one-on-one in person he's can be a jerk. Other than that, good luck!
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Course Taken: Life Sciences 2 I took LS 2 with Dr. Fain/Dr. Cooper. I thought Dr. Fain was absolutely amazing--he knew the material well and seemed really enthusiastic teaching the material. In terms of the material, I thought Fain's half of the class was much more interesting (how the organs worked), but it was also much more difficult than Cooper's material. There was definitely a lot more to know. Fain's free response questions were straight forward and not too difficult, but his multiple choice questions were really tricky/hard. Every question literally had an "e) none of the above", so you really have to know your stuff. Everything you need to know is on the lecture slides, so don't bother reading stuff in the textbook that Fain never talks about. Fain talks really fast in lecture because he kinda assumes that you learned most of the stuff "in high school", so if you don't catch everything he says (which is likely), go to office hours and/or read the textbook (it's a great supplement to his lectures). He really encourages you to go to office hours and he's more than willing to explain the material again to you. He also has little stories that get him sidetracked during lecture, but they're usually funny and keep the lectures interesting. If not, it's not that hard to just ignore them. Overall, I really didn't like the amount of memorization required in this class (I'm more of an "applying concepts" person rather than pure memorization), but I did find myself learning a lot. I highly recommend Dr. Fain for LS 2: He's a nice guy and really great!
Course Taken: Life Sciences 2 I took LS 2 with Dr. Fain/Dr. Cooper. I thought Dr. Fain was absolutely amazing--he knew the material well and seemed really enthusiastic teaching the material. In terms of the material, I thought Fain's half of the class was much more interesting (how the organs worked), but it was also much more difficult than Cooper's material. There was definitely a lot more to know. Fain's free response questions were straight forward and not too difficult, but his multiple choice questions were really tricky/hard. Every question literally had an "e) none of the above", so you really have to know your stuff. Everything you need to know is on the lecture slides, so don't bother reading stuff in the textbook that Fain never talks about. Fain talks really fast in lecture because he kinda assumes that you learned most of the stuff "in high school", so if you don't catch everything he says (which is likely), go to office hours and/or read the textbook (it's a great supplement to his lectures). He really encourages you to go to office hours and he's more than willing to explain the material again to you. He also has little stories that get him sidetracked during lecture, but they're usually funny and keep the lectures interesting. If not, it's not that hard to just ignore them. Overall, I really didn't like the amount of memorization required in this class (I'm more of an "applying concepts" person rather than pure memorization), but I did find myself learning a lot. I highly recommend Dr. Fain for LS 2: He's a nice guy and really great!
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LS2 Fain is very concerned. He is really passionate and wants everyone to come to his office hours and talk about bio, which is cool to see. His lecture slides weren't the most organized-- he didn't even have a title slide for each lecture so i wasn't always sure what subject we were even discussing at the beginning. His tests are ridiculous. But again, that's just how all LS classes are imo.
LS2 Fain is very concerned. He is really passionate and wants everyone to come to his office hours and talk about bio, which is cool to see. His lecture slides weren't the most organized-- he didn't even have a title slide for each lecture so i wasn't always sure what subject we were even discussing at the beginning. His tests are ridiculous. But again, that's just how all LS classes are imo.
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