Reviews for BSCI446

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Ricardo Araneda
BSCI446

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/08/2019 		Ricardo is a poor professor. Plain and simple. Does not communicate expectations to students and then gets angry when these unspoken expectations are not met. Unenthusiastic with teaching; seems like he is being forced to do this as a component of his contract with the university. Condescending when asked questions; if he decides he's above answering a question of yours, he won't do it and will instead try to make you feel bad by indirectly insulting your intelligence. Overall, not a people person, no teaching ability, and little interest in the well-being of students.
Ricardo Araneda
BSCI446

Expecting an A
Anonymous
09/16/2016 		BSCI446 was a good expansion on the concepts introduced in BSCI353. 446 essentially covers all of the ideas discussed in 353 - but it spends equal time on all of them (353 seemed to have very biased focus on certain concepts depending on what the professor did research in). While the textbook is not necessary to do well in 446, Dr. Araneda seemed to use the Purves textbook heavily in his powerpoints and lectures, so reading the textbook made the course pretty straightforward. Dr. Araneda was also very receptive to questions. He does expect students to come prepared to his office hours (this is an upper level neuroscience course so he wouldn't discuss basic neuro concepts, like action potentials and nernst), but he was more than willing (in my experience) to sit down and spend time discussing the concepts he lectured on. Overall, I'd recommend taking this course under Dr. Araneda if you thought 353 was interesting but wanted to explore all of the concepts a bit more thoroughly. If you read the textbook and come to class/office hours with relevant questions, the course will be a cinch.