Too much work for the credits offered. Did not learn anything new. I suggest you to look for other classes! AVOID!

Her lectures were very hard to follow- she constantly switches back and forth between overheads and powerpoint slides. She often expects you to know every minute detail of a process and asks short answer questions that are extremely specific and hard to get right on the exam. I do not recommend taking this class from her.

SOOO HORRIBLE! Dont take this class online. The biology department is terrible. She mentions things on lectures that arent on the exams. Everyone cheats on the online exams and no one is given accountability. Her LFAs are only a little helpful. She doesnt know how to teach and should go to teaching school. WORST CURVES at the UW.

Its intro bio, it will ruin your grade

Tests are the only things that mattered and were graded by a random number generator.

She single-handedly made me hate biology :)

Weekly tokenism, blamed not having group exams on poc, and not accomodating. Her lectures are helpful, but not enough to pass the class. She expects more than she gives. Little to no effort in actually helping students. If you're slightly rude on regrade requests, she won't consider a regrade at all. Terrible educator. Tries to be woke lib, fails

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFF!!! Ignore the highest review on top. expects so much out of her tests but doesn't teach enough during lecture to understand the material. you can't even use the textbook since it doesn't help. DON'T take it online though that's my advice. she is nice and well spoken, but that doesn't help. GPA ruiner and HARD exams.

She is probably the worst biology teacher I have ever had. The material in this course is not hard to grasp, it is her lectures, constant worksheets, and exams that will give you a headache and tank your GPA. You ever have that one friend that loves Biology and just yaps about it without making any sense? Yeah, she is that friend.

Although attendance is mandatory, you're better off spending lecture watching khan academy. She simply dumbs down content and writes her exam with high expectations. After an exam she encouraged the class to learn how to write complete answers, but we never showed us what she expects us to cover in our answers.

Lectures are extremely surface-level compared to what is expected on exams, the textbook isn't much help either. The exam questions are generally all or nothing, with minimal partial credit. She also consistently blames poor exam scores on a lack of studying and depth of answering questions, yet she never covers what she expects as a test answer.

I am really not enjoying this class at all, the pre-readings and lecture content are incredibly disconnected, and even further disconnected from the lab content. Her lectures are dumbed down, but then poll questions and test questions are really complex. I have constantly had to teach myself test concepts that she doesn't cover.

You can tell that Professor Crowe is passionate about her subject, but it is unclear if she cares the same level for her students' learning. Professor Crowe reuses the same graphics throughout the entire quarter and her lectures have no structure. Half of the class is just doing group work on POGIL worksheets instead of actual teaching.

Yk that one meme where a student interrupts his high school teacher by getting up and telling her that she should actually be teaching and connecting with the students face to face instead of just handing them a packet yo That's this class

This seems to be UW specific but it seems the bio professors tend to be overly-hyper & dumb down material in lecture and then make the tests way more complicated than the material they teach. Crowe's no different. And gives out WAY too many packets to do in class instead of actually lecturing. The thought of doing another POGIL gives me nightmares.

This class is structure like my grandma's back, nonexistent and problematic. It seems no matter how hard you try, nothing work because its usually the prof's job to teach you the basics and for you to elaborate on your own. Class average on the first exam was around 60% and on the second was 50%... think that says a lot.

Prof. Crowe is undoubtedly a caring person, but that does not translate to this course whatsoever. The lectures and exams are not related in any fashion, nor do the textbook or her endless supply of worksheets help for doing well. Having to rely on the TA's mini-lectures in labs to understand anything is concerning, but that's what's going on.

Crowe's a wonderful caring person. BUT OH MY GOD THE WAY THINGS ARE GRADED. You'll be left splitting hairs over everything. You get 99% of the question and miss one key word? Congrats. No points. In biol 180 you got 1 percentage point extra credit right? SAY GOODBYE TO THAT. You get ONE POINT. Also she inflects every sentence up like a question HLP

She is a kind person but the test grading rubric is intensely specific, and if you have the all of the right concepts and answers, but are missing a specific order of words, you will easily get a 60% on the exams!

I wouldn't recommend taking Biology 200 with Alison Crowe. Course felt very disorganized. Her lecturing felt messy and her choice of wording is not as specific as she would expect from students on her own exams. Asking for practice problems felt like pulling teeth at the start of the quarter. Class activities felt age appropriate for 4th graders.

Would not recommend taking 200 with Crowe, the lectures are not at all related to the exam material. Most of the lecture time is spent on worksheets that are not at all explained afterward, leaving students confused. There is also little room for partial credit on exams, answers must be word-for-word identical to the answer key to get any credit.

Hard to listen to. Assigned readings are unrealistically long and it is unclear what you really need to look at before lectures/understand for exams.

Lectures are unorganized and all over the place. She wastes class time with worksheets instead of actually teaching. How are we supposed to answer questions we've never covered? Exams were EXTREMELY difficult packed with multiple subparts, and focused more on vocabulary than concepts. Grading was harsh; you lose points for not using specific words.

Nice person, horrible teacher. Test questions take so much extrapolating; very broad/confusing questions and expects a very specific answer. Get ready to learn everything you need to know on your own time, lab might be the one helpful thing, def not lectures.

I mean wow, I don't usually write RMP reviews but this might be the worst STEM professor I've had in my time at UW. She struggles to explain concepts clearly and concisely and instead hands us worksheets, often about concepts we aren't even familiar about yet. You will 100% have a better time learning the concepts by asking TAs and going to CLUE.

Lectures had no structure or organization and usually weren't helpful for exam content. There were way too many worksheets that detracted from learning opportunities in lecture. Good exam scores are attainable if you do the practice questions to get familiar with picky grading and key words - you will lose points for not including exact phrases.

Honestly really bad. I wanted to get past the squeaky voice and the bad hand writing, but after the first two exams hearing through the TAs that the average was low 60s and they didn't really care to do anything but blame students she lost my respect. Would avoid 200 with her at all costs.

I knew Biol 200 was going to be tough, but not like this. Crowe is a fitting name because with all due respect she sounded like one. Lectures were painful and the class jumped around material a lot compared to others I've taken. For reference I find organic chemistry much easier than her bio 200 class and have the grades to prove it.

she never actually taught—just made us talk to partners, so no one knew what was going on. Her nasally voice, awful metaphors, and unreadable handwriting made things worse. We were doomed from day one. Good luck if you take her, but honestly, Bio 200 might just suck no matter the teacher.

Her lectures were really bad paced with introducing many terms at once and handing out useless worksheets that don't seem to supplement her lectures. She very very assumes you have read the textbook so if you don't you are cooked. In class polling is used free response polling so you have to go or you don't get poll credit.

She does not teach. Although she may be nice, everything you learn from the class will either be from the textbook or simbio. I repeat, she does not teach. She expects you to come into class with full knowledge of what she's going to teach. You need to pay attention to the readings because stuff that she's never talked about will be on exams.

Leaving this review while currently in the class because wow. I've had my share of tough professors/classes but this is by far the worst. Her lectures are so patchy, she skips around from topic to topic and will put things on the test she has never talked about in class. You NEED to do all the readings and also recommend watching vids ou

Its clear that Professor Crowe is trying to implement a classroom style to encourage active recall rather than memorization, but unfortunately she doesn't do a very good job. There is no information on the slides and endless assigned readings. She is making it genuinely difficult to learn in what SHOULD be an interesting class. Wouldn't recommend.

She was a bad lecturer and a bad grader. Do not take her class.

I hated this class; it RUINED my mental health. Crowe cannot lecture and there is no clear grading criterion. My graduate TA told me not to use the lectures as a study tool and instead to use the textbook. I learned the most through the lab and the textbook. If you can, save yourself a quarter of pain and do NOT take BIOL 200 with Crowe.

She makes bad use of in-class lecture time with polling questions, group call, and worksheets. Extra assignments chew up your time. Go to lecture for attendance points and tune the rest out, take good notes on the textbook chapters and do the practice exam problems. Avoid bio with her if you can.

Bio 200 is a hard weed-out course, but I would recommend avoiding Crowe at all costs. If you are stuck with her, make sure to kiss your mental health goodbye and lock in. I would recommend reading the textbook and using practice problems to study for the tests. In this class, a 2.0 is a 75, so be prepared to put in high amounts of effort.

The professor has a terrible style of notes that don't clearly tell you what the material is that you have to know. The lectures also don't cover much of any of the content that you actually need to know. The TA's in this course are the real teachers, they lecture in Lab along with whatever lab was supposed to be done.

Awful teacher, horrible class structure. Topics covered for each exam have little to no correlation with each other and jump around the textbook a lot. Lectures are useless due to her inability to teach and awful nasally voice. My TA was personally super useless as well and had no idea what was going on. Read textbook instead of going to lecture.

Lectures are useless, tests are graded quite subjectively with you having to get key buzz words to get credit instead of conveying understanding. Wants to test students on weird analogies instead of actual content. Seriously should not be teaching. The material is super interesting but she manages to make it miserable to learn and she can't teach.

I feel like I could have taught this class better than Crowe with no information other than reading the book. Her rubrics on tests are terrible, and I felt like she wanted me to memorize how she would answer questions more than she wanted me to learn. She also gives so much work in the learning reflections.

I learned more from this class in an hour of lab than a week of lecture. Reading the textbook is what gets you the grade rather than lecture. She does not go into detail during class but the details and key buzz words are what is on the exam. It is less of a test-your-understanding and more of a “memorize what she wants you to say”. Cannot teach

I believe that people shouldn't be judged by their voice- Crowe is an exception. It's that bad. Didn't read the textbook- just made flashcards. Got an easy 4.0 because I already knew what was going on, not because she did anything right. I could have taught this class far better than she did, I think most people could have. Avoid her If possible.

Horrible professor do not take everything everyone is saying is true. Should genuinely be fired and I am appalled there are such gifted people out there who probably cannot get the opportunity to teach because people like Alison Crowe are tenured. The class structure kind of just sucks in general at UW but Alison Crowe makes it horrible.

Mega azz cheeks she cant grade for crap

She doesnt teach content in lectures, you must read textbook. Exam content is traightforward (if you learn from TA or textbook) but rubric makes it difficult to get full credit even if you know the answer. Would not reccomend