I seriously dont get all the hate surrounding this class. I ended up with a 95%. But if youre not a dedicated science student it might be a bit harder for you. The material is easy but theres a lot. Nonetheless, its not difficult at all to get an A. Dr. Larson is passionate and considerate Doing the hw and studying will definitely get you an A.

She was a great professor. If you pay attention during lecture, she goes over what is important for exams. Her exams are straight forward and do not try trick you. Definitely do the extra credit assignments (15-20 points per exam!). Homework assignments are long, but they're always like that when using connect. I wish I had her bio 202

It is a lot of work, but you can do it! Quizlet helps if you're crunched for time. Do the extra credit. Test scores do not reflect your grade. I got an A with a 53% on my last test (lol). Read the book! Study guides are simply a guide, not direct questions. IMO, this course is meant to figure out your best studying methods!

Her lectures were super interesting, which is what she tested mostly on. This is a time commitment class but she made it so much more fun and enjoyable.

Prof. Larson really cares about her students and will go the extra effort to help you succeed. There is a LOT of information and reading, but as long as you do the assignments/readings throughout the week and don't cram the tests are a good reflection of the info learned. A lot of extra credit opportunities so do as many as possible.

I was so nervous to take her because of all the bad reviews, she doesn't deserve them. The class is hella hard but Dr. Larson is so funny and caring. There's lots of extra credit opportunities, the practicals are lowkey the hardest part of the class. If you do the homework and read the chapters or even just go to class you'll pass.

Larson made lectures interesting and really showed she cared about her students. The exams are straight forward and to the point and she doesn't include trick questions.She would even bring in candy on test days for every student, she was so sweet. Study a lot and show up and you'll do great. HIGHLY recommend this professor she was so funny/ nice.

The class is intensive and fast-paced (I counted about 60 assignments for ~8 weeks), but changing professors wouldn't change anything. Make use of the study guides, HW/EC, and extra resources like APR. Do whatever helps you quickly memorize, but make sure you still understand. For proctoring, I recommend having an empty closet or something similar.

Attend lecture! Do the study guides--they literally give you answers for the tests. It is extremely homework heavy so manage your time wisely but it adds a lot of assignments to your grade that way your grade isn't just based on 5 tests--cushions your grade. She throws out 1 exam grade. And offers extra credit! She is a very fun lecturer too!

This course is a very heavy workload so beware but if you do well on the homework and do the extra credit offered, it is very possible to have a good grade. Dr. Larson is a really caring and charismatic professor but does not do much more other than lecture due to the class size. Lot of memorization for this course

I liked that Dr. Larson spent time applying the material to real life. It made it so much easier to study and remember important concepts. She has a very good balance of strict and compassion and leniency. Very fast paced class with lots of understanding and memorizing concepts

This class was challenging but in the best way, I learned so much and how to use excel, math and science all together. This class use DSL which is a new way of teaching in VR and I loved it. I can use the things I learned in many other aspects of life. I would take this course and professor again!

Dr. Larson does a great job of making the lectures interesting and interactive. It is a bit time consuming, but any anatomy class will require a lot memorization. The lab portion was difficult for this reason, but extra credit added a significant buffer. Stay on top of iClickers, homework, and studying and you'll do great!

She is a great lecturer and has a story/mnemonic for everything which helps memorization. There are usually 3-4 worksheets due every 3 weeks, which each require an hour or two, plus extra credit which you def should do. The exams are filled with really simple questions and you can drop one of them. Hated the lab but just make sure you study a LOT.

Regardless of professor, human anatomy/phys is a difficult subject. Larson made every lecture interesting and came up with easy ways to remember difficult concepts. Lab practicals were more difficult than the lecture exams in my opinion, however if you studied, you will be fine. 100% do all the extra credit offered.

I loved professor larson! Her class was definitely not easy and required tons of studying and memorization but she is very understanding and a great teacher, her tests are straight forward and she does not try to trick you. She also gives tons of extra credit which is super helpful and she also allows a drop exam. Overall I loved the class.

This class was roughhhh but Prof. Larson made lectures interesting and engaging! I loved learning the content and learned a lot. In my opinion, the lab was the hardest part and practicals and exams were super hard. Make sure to study LOTS and you will be fine!

While the class is lecture heavy and the labs are very time consuming, I felt that all the extra training in excel helped prepare me for upper division science classes. Prof Larson and the TA's were all VERY helpful working with the class through the new Dreamscape/lab platform. Put in the work and you'll do fine! Great professor, great class!

The main thing about her class is that YOU drive the boat. You have to set aside 3+ hours to do the coursework due to the lectures alone. They're in depth and easy to follow, but are hours of material. Not accounting for notes, studying, taking the exam. The TAs are really responsive in the discussions, and she had multiple office hour times.

Dr. Larson is an amazing professor! All the expectations for the class are clearly laid out in the beginning. She does a really good job at combining all components of A&P in the lectures, from memorization to understanding processes to relating it to real-world examples. Big advice is use APR for lab and hone in on MC skills for lecture exams.

Bio 181 is the same for every professor. It does not matter what professor you take this class will teach the same things. This class is statistic heavy, but that is Biology. Biology is statistics. This class teaches the way of Biology, while giving you the POV of a Biologist. Larson is very kind and understanding. Don't hesitate to ask for help.

The class is hard and fast-paced, but that's to be expected in any A&P course. Prof Larson is super upfront with expectations and provides a lot of extra credit to help offset some of the difficulty of the exams. You can tell she really wants you to succeed. But if you struggle with recall or memorization, this class will no doubt be a challenge.

Professor Larson's class is by far THE best class I've taken at ASU (I'm a senior). Her lectures are so interesting and she makes everything so much easier to learn. TAs are so inspirational and knowledgeable about the subject. Be aware that this test requires a lot of your time, but it's structured so that you can pass with an A or B if you try.

16 modules & 9 lab assignments in 7.5 weeks. 4 quizzes & 3 exams. Quizzes are easy & exact same questions from the (optional) study guides. At least 80% of the exam questions are word-for-word taken from the quizzes, so REVIEW THEM to study. Lectures are LONG (1 - 3 hours per module, varies) & lab assignments took 3-4 hours. Go to Office Hours!

Paired with the lab, this class contains a lot of content. It is not necessarily difficult, but it can be overwhelming. Professor Larson makes it manageable. Not only is she a great teacher, but she is an incredible person. Do your assignments before the due date and take advantage of every extra credit opportunity. Do the provided study guides!

TAKE HER. I LOVED THIS CLASS! She made it easy to learn with interactive lecture notes. Easy tests if you study. Lots of extra credit. I wish she taught 202

Prof Larson had very fun, engaging lectures. She gives you all of the materials to succeed. Make sure you do the extra credit and study the slides thoroughly for tests. Lab is a lot of memorization, so make sure to allocate times towards that. Show up to lectures, study, and you can easily pass! I would really recommend her.

I really loved Professor Larson! Her lectures were engaging and informative. Though the lecture videos were of somebody else, I didn't have a problem with that since they weren't different from the lectures. Exams are straight forward and easy to study for. She offers extra credit that was also a helpful study tool. APR will be your best friend.

No required attendance but there is iClickers participation points. There's a ton of material to cover so the class overall is a 5 difficulty but she is very engaged in making it a positive experience for you so as a teacher she made the class easier. every chapter and every practical have extra credit. 2 quizzes and a test get dropped.

Classmates seem to hate her (skill issue) but I like her. Very present and helpful. Lots of EC and HW but it isn't busy work. Take this class on its own to do well. Grade is based on your ability to study. Learn how to study and do all EC. Everything you need to know is in the textbook. I work 20+ hours, am taking another class, and have over 100%.

Professor Larson's lectures are actually worth going to. You learn a lot in lectures. It is a hard class but that's anatomy anywhere you go. She offers a lot of extra credit and homework that actually helps you learn the subject. You will need to study a few days before each lecture exam.

A&P is a difficult class no matter who you take. Don't listen to these low ratings. Take this class. Deanna is the best teacher I've had at ASU and made me want to take more anatomy related classes as electives. The content isn't too difficult, just get good at time management. This class is a lot of work but 100% worth it. SO MUCH EXTRA CREDIT!

The class is a lot of work but I would still take her class, its a lot of work regardless of the professor its just a lot of content so you have to study! She offers SO MUCH extra credit! Do all the SBS its very helpful.

This class was great, and very manageable. Lots of extra credit and if you go to lecture its near impossible to fail. Professor cares about her students and wants you to succeed. Don't listen to the bad reviews, I would 100% take this class again.

She makes A&P interesting! Yes the labs can be a bit hard and the HW is A LOT but it helps. At times just doing the hw was enough studying for me for the week. Lots of EC, going to class (iclickers!) is helpful, and the book isn't too depended on. lectures = exams, provides VERY helpful study guides! loved her class!

I liked Dr. Larson! She brought a sense of reality to the tough material in the class. It's an arduous course, meant for pre-healthcare professionals!

Professor Larson is very passionate about what she is teaching, which makes the lectures very engaging. The lab portion of this class is very difficult as are the lecture exams, but if you do all of the homework and extra credits then you can keep your grade up.

Awesome person. Follows up with your problems and has been the first person to genuinely want me to succeed. She didn't just say no to my situation but went out of her way to contact the support office and figure the problem out for me.

Larson never taught the class, she had TAs and the lectures were created by someone else, Fairly math heavy and a lot of work all at once. Keeping up with everything was difficult; labs were a serious pain and felt like busywork. The class was so poorly put together that she exempted some work at the end, which was really helpful and appreciated.

The class is tough, so don't go into this class thinking it is easy. The professor is AMAZING; she is willing to help you & TAs are ready to help. The lab portion is the actual rigid portion. Yes, there is a lot of HW, but it is because there is a lot of material. If you put in the work, and do all the extra credit, & ask for help, you will be fine

I don't understand why the reviews are so negative! The lectures were very interesting and she does a great job breaking the content down. Obviously, being a pre-medicine class, A&P is going to be difficult no matter who you take it with, but Larson's class is well structured and very possible to pass. Just don't fall behind, because it is a lot!

I am SHOCKED people submit so many bad reviews. It seems to happen with any hard Science class. She is super nice and a great teacher. As in if you pay attention and give a good amount of effort you can ACTUALLY get an A. Professor Larson communicates information clearly and sharply. It is very possible to pick up on.

I took Professor Larson's BIO 201 during one of the hardest transitions of my life at 16 years old. She has the kindest heart and was always available to talk to for personal and academic reasons. Instead of telling me I couldn't succeed, she made me believe I was capable. I've never felt so cared for by a teacher before.

this class is not as hard as people paint it out to be, but it is A LOT of work. I took this along with two other science classes and I still survived so you can too. the only reason you should go to lecture is for iclicker points, otherwise it doesn't help that much. She gives a lot of extra credit and is very understanding.

Dr. Larson was a very hard teacher, but I think her teaching style worked. Her class felt like I was in a military boot camp. She assigns a lot of questions for homework which kinda forces you to study, and offered a lot of prep for exams. She had really high expectations, but if you pretend you're training for a BIO201 war, you will learn a lot.

I took BIO 181 before they revamped the course, and I adore Dr Larson. She is so funny and sassy, and she cares about her students. The learning curve is difficult for those like myself who had never used excel before, but they have a ton of video resources and office hours daily to assist. You have to put the work in and you can earn an A!

Dr. Larson is an excellent professor. Her study guides are clear, and exams follow them closely. She posts helpful supplemental videos that align with the study guide, making studying straightforward. She's an engaging lecturer and passionate about the material. The McGraw Hill assignments are a bit annoying, but the extra credit helps a lot.

She is such a sweety and really sets you up well to succeed in this class. It has a lot of content, but as to be expected with any A&P course. The posted study guides are very helpful, and do ALL EC so you can bomb the lab practicals. Exams are easy and the first two units are practically review if you have taken intro bio and chem.

Professor Larson makes the tough material engaging. While the class workload is heavy, with unstuckstudy and lots of extra credit, it's very manageable to get an A. Definitely attend lectures - they're essential for exam prep.

Had her last semester and I think it's a little funny her reviews are so terrible, however I don't think she honestly deserves this low of a rating. Her exams are incredibly straightforward (some Q's are from SB) homeworks are excessive at times, but light compared to 202. Lab portion can be overkill, but practicals are not as hard as people say.

Professor Larson was an awesome professor. While this class in general is hard for some, she was caring and offered MANY opportunities for extra credit.

I get why people can say she is not a great professor, but do not take this class if you're not interested or will not put in work. Lab portion is basically another 3 hour lecture and very memorization heavy, while the lecture is more physiology and concept heavy. This class is do-able with effort, you need to be present in order to succeed!

This class is hard. However, it's going to be difficult no matter what teacher you have. You might as well have a teacher that gives A LOT of extra credit. There are 4 exams (multiple choice,100 points) and 2 practicals (fill in the blank, 50 points). I recommend you take an easy class along with this. Online labs and dissections are very easy.

Mama Deanna is my queen but damn her class is difficult. I would HIGHLY recommend taking this class alone with no science classes. The homeworks take hours, the exams are difficult and lab practicals are downright evil. She is still an icon though and I will always love her! I would recommend the class but probably best to wait until senior year.

Not the most lenient professor but there are SO many extra credit opportunities that it makes up for it. If you study and do all the readings/homework, the exams are laughably easy. A & P will be a hard class no matter which professor you get but her slides are really helpful and contain all the information that will be on exams.

Okay from a non biased standpoint, all the one star reviews complaining about how hard this class is is hilarious to me. It's definitely a challenging course, but if you're a STEM major, what did you expect? She genuinely cares about her students and wants them to succeed. The course difficulty isn't really her fault.

Professor Larson had great analogies. I would recommend taking this course with her. Be mentally present during lectures (listen and absorb) and try to relate the information to mnemonics, personal stories, and how its used in the medical field. Do the homework at least twice and rewrite your notes multiple times before an exam in order to succeed.

The lab is more difficult than the actual lecture portion imo. Professor Larson was great at relaying the lecture material and engaged with us in class by asking us clarifying questions and being attentive to our mood during the lectures (she'd let us out early when the class stopped engaging so often). Review study guides, hw's, and EC to do well.

Take 201/202 in your senior year if possible. It's the only science heavy course and taken alone with other extra circulars. The material is easier (especially the physiology) to grasp with background knowledge and the lab is basically the battle you face. Prof Larson did great in her explanations and I would recommend taking her again.

This is a tough class, but it is very doable to get an A even without getting A's or B's on exams (as long as you do all the extra credit and homework). I strongly advise to read the chapters and watch lectures (as they're very surface level). Every week we had a due date with a 12 hr grace period which was helpful. At home dissections were cool!!

Prof Larson is a great lecturer and I definitely learned a lot. She does assign a lot of homework and the class is hard, but that should be expected of pre-health students who want to go on to operate on other people. Everyone here is just extremely dramatic. She even offers a ton of extra credit to counterbalance the workload! Would take again.

I really liked her. I took 25 credits this semester so the reason my grade is so low is that I just did not have time to study but I bet if you take this class alone or with only 1 other science course you should do just fine as she is super sweet and cares about your success. She is sassy but she is awesome.

Personally she really isn't that bad she's actually a good teacher and very generous when it comes to grading the test however I think all these reviews are toward the labs which I don't blame them because the lab is actually pretty stupid the way it's structured and graded but other than that she's actually not that bad of a professor very caring

Idk why her rating on here is so low. Prof. Larson is one of my favorite instructors I've ever had, you can tell she cares a lot about what she's teaching and that her students understand it. Lots of homework but it's really helpful for the exams. The worst part is the lab but that's not her fault.

Dr. Larson taught this course well, and I learned a lot. The tests are reasonable for the material and not too difficult. The lab was also interesting, and the practicals were not very difficult. I would recommend Dr. Larson for BIO 201.

In my opinion, she isn't that bad. She's actually a good teacher and tends to be generous when grading tests. However, I understand why some reviews focus on the labs, which I agree can be poorly structured and graded. Aside from that, she's not a bad professor at all—she genuinely cares about her students.

Not a terrible class if you can manage your time!!! The class is run by TAs, which can be frustrating, but as long as you use the discussion boards and focus on the digit lectures and practice tests, you will pass all the exams. Excel assignments are easy once you learn the formulas. Good luck!

Professor was nice and posted in discussion boards often. TAs on her team were understanding and tried their best to work with students and their deadlines. The deadlines were incredibly flexible. The software used for homework assignments was confusing at times, but it allowed for more practice since Digit lets you to retake prior assignments.

Any reviews here that take shots at her as a professor aren't genuine. *SHE'S* great, it's the course that's the issue. Don't go into this expecting to actually retain the material - you won't have enough time for that in only 7 weeks. Cram so you can pass, then plan to revisit the course on your Canvas in the future so you can *actually* learn.

I do not know why people say she is a bad professor. To be completely honest she was the best professor I had at ASU. I did not know what to expect difficulty wise going into this class and her lectures and assignments helped a lot with exams. Anatomy is a hard class in general but she was engaging with the class and made the class fun.

This is a difficult class that requires a significant amount of time. The heavy workload allows the learner to work through the material multiple times and the homework, quizzes and labs allow you to "rack up points" to offset the difficult exams. This is a class geared towards people going into graduate studies in health. It should be hard.

People are way too hard on her when she repeatedly says she wishes this course could be at a slower pace. Its human anatomy in 7.5 weeks - it won't feel nice. But it's not impossible to get an A or just pass with all the extra credit she offers. STUDY the material, not just memorize it, and understand it so the exams come easily. You'll be okay

I thought Professor Larson's lectures were very involved in real medical issues, and she was great at lecturing. I can see how people hate labs, as it is time-consuming and only covers some material, with the rest to be studied independently. She's strict on quizzes/tests, but that makes sense as most of her students are in the medical route.

Anatomy is already a hard topic, but she does an amazing job teaching. You're going to have to teach yourself because you need to practice to succeed. Mod 3: Muscles is definitely the hardest exam and practical you'll ever have. I got a C+ purely because I didn't take it seriously until the end. You def could get higher if you lock in since day 1.

Generous and empathetic professor. Her teaching has tons of real-life scenarios and personal stories. It is a bit too excessive and overpowers the true content of the class. Muscles unit for lab + lectures is super rough due to cadevar + lots of prior knowledge. Lots of EC. Don't be misled by her "MD/DO" - she has a special Master's from med school

I came into this class scared because of her reviews, but in my 2.5 years at ASU Dr L is the most qualified and passionate professor I've had. She is strict but only because her students are future medical professionals which I completely agree with. Exams 1 and 4 were the easiest and 2 and 3 hardest, but if you put in the work you can succeed.