Travis isnt a professor yet. He would like to call himself that instead of Mr. Acosta even though he hasnt earned the title or any title close to it. He is strict on quizzes and spelling of terms you may have never heard before. He wont respond to your emails because he doesnt like them so good luck if youre unfortunate enough to be here.

Travis expects students to already know the information before class instead of teaching it. Study the textbook because those are what his quizzes are based on. Do not recommend! Does nothing to help his students.

Lab was so boring we literally sat there for 3 hours doing nothing when he could've been teaching instead. Had us watch YouTube videos on our own time which were so slow and boring, they made me want to fall asleep. Super hard grader for practicals. Class is impossible to pass if you don't watch every single one of his videos at least 5 times each

Worst lab instructor. During our 3 hour lab, all we do is a quiz, look at models, and a worksheet. He doesn't teach during class, he expects you to watch all of his YouTube videos *outside of class time* as a substitute for in-class lecture. The material is very hard, but he expects you to know all of it without ever explaining anything.

pt two - notice how its all good reviews on here its because he asks his fav students to leave a good review for ec tell me if thats ethical - gets upset when students give him feedback on how he runs his class, ego problem if you ask me - when students complain to pesthy abt him he gets upset and thinks his students are in the wrong

The class was definitely the hardest class Ive ever taken in my life , and its a lab class (smh). Travis is a very tough grader and genuinely wants his students to fail his class. If you have to take BIO 2451, please save yourself and your mental health and take lab with Samantha.

Worst lab IA ever. Pays students to write good reviews for him. Dont take him.

This lab instructor was the absolute worst. He had favorites and doesn't care about his students, only his youtube channel. He doesn't help if you are struggling and he grades very toughly. PLEASE CHOOSE THE OTHER LAB INSTRUCTOR AND YOU WILL PASS.

He treats the class as a "nursing school weed out" class (he said that himself), and makes it extra difficult because "if you can't pass this class, you shouldn't be a nurse". His tests are ridiculously hard with very little other assignments to help with grades. His lab is also very confusing with structure, and still with impossible tests.

He is not a caring person even though he pretends to be during lectures. His lab are only sitting around for 3 hours and then doing hours worth of homework after. Lectures are simply the textbooks verbatim. He gets rambles on random topics, falls behind in lecture, and makes students learn the most difficult chapters on their own days prior exams.

Absolutely awful. Hard Tests. Poor lecturing. We learned everything on our own. Would have done the same in the class with or without attendance. His labs are also a waste of time. DO NOT TAKE.

He does not care for the students. Gave multiple assignments to do over the fall break. Made students watch his online videos that do no help with the course materials. This is not a class to take at TXST, go somewhere else to take it.

This was going to be a hard class, but this professor made it extra difficult. He wants students to struggle and fail. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. The best thing you can do for yourself is take Anatomy at a different university and transfer your credits. This class will make you miserable if you take it on this campus.

I studied and worked hard all semester, only to fail. Office hours were less help than the lectures. He is not very good at explaining things, especially the more complicated stuff. His labs were mostly structured to learn everything before for a quiz then sit around for three hours. I do not recommend this class.

I fought for my life with this course. Very difficult. I am normally a B student, but this was another level of hard. I think it would be better to take this course at another school and transfer credits. There was little structure, lots of stress, and the syllabus' schedule was thrown out the window within two weeks. Prepare to read a lots.

This class is very stressful. There is a difference between stress from learning lots of new information in a new subject and a professor piling so much onto you while nothing makes sense, this course is the second type of stress. There is a lot to do and Acosta does not help much with understanding. Youtube and google are how I passed this course.

He has as much enthusiasm as a wet cardboard box. Very boring. Lectures and labs were both boring and pointless. Just read the textbook chapters to pass. Tests are extra hard.

I don't know how I managed to pass, this class is hard. Anatomy is hard but Acosta does students no favors to help out. He did give us a last minute quiz the week before finals (when we had a quiz the week before) so it could drop the lowest quiz, but we had to learn all the information for the quiz via videos while on break. Not very considerate.

Lots of learning on our own because he does not finish his lectures but also does not adjust his tests for what is taught by him. He follows the textbook exactly. Professors on YouTube helped me out more than lectures did. Read the textbook if you want to know at least 25% of the stuff on the tests that are not covered well in lecture.

This class is boring and not worth my time. I would also like to note that he only does lectures at 8am which is very early for such a difficult topic with attendance being required. I would not recommend his lectures if you need someone to explain the more complex topics.

Not kind and not caring. A little condescending if you ask questions either in class or in office hours. Expects students to know everything about a chapter before he starts lecture on it, then lectures on the topic for multiple lessons, it is a little redundant.

His lectures are terrible, you can tell he knows a lot about the subject but he also has zero interest in teaching. You take away nothing from his lectures and you pretty much have to teach yourself. There is extra credit for doing the outlines that we are supposed to do in class, but you will have to do a majority of the outlines on your own.

He makes you learn chapters by yourself the day before an exam and his test questions are almost whole paragraphs. He also makes me cringe.

lectures are not helpful, does fill in the blank notes he does not explain just tells you what to write. Expects you to know what he is talking about prior to going over it. He never finished lectures and runs behind schedule and will tell you to teach yourself. The class is based on 8 assignments and he offers no buffers any circumstance.

Even though attendance is mandatory, you won't learn more than like 5 things during the entire lecture. Office hours didn't help, he would just repeat the same answer, overall just very redundant, you can tell he doesn't have a full grasp of what he's explaining all the time.

Acosta is smart but doesn't know how to teach without boring the class. I thought the chapter outlines were supposed to help with studying, but it made it much worse because the outlines are so long. That being said, I will not have a clue what will be on the test. Please take Pedrozo! Pedrozo will give you hints for his tests. And he is engaging.

I was successful in this class but only due to my own hard work. Acosta does not teach & does not listen to student feedback. He glosses over important topics & is more concerned with going over an amount of content rather than ensuring his students understand it.

DO NOT TAKE ACOSTA. I am sorry, but this was the worst class I think I have ever taken at TXST. We were always behind from lecture schedule, so in turn Acosta would drop 10 pages of slides onto you the day before the test. Not to mention he would not teach but would just read off the slides. Be ready to teach yourself, and be prepared to be annoyed

DO NOT TAKE ACOSTA, dont be fooled by reviews, he asked students to make these reviews. ive taken him for 2 semesters & it was the same unorganized, lecture heavy, difficult courses. YOU WILL NEED TO TEACH EVERYTHING YOURSELF AT HOME. he does not care about you, your grade, or you trying to get into nursing or med school. office hours are no help.

Upon taking this course again somewhere else I can confidently encourage you to take another professor or even take this course somewhere else. He makes the course harder than it needs to be, and has even admitted so himself. His exams are worded difficulty intended to make you do poorly and the outlines contain much more material than necessary.

Travis is lets just say not the greatest teacher at all. He is a very rude person and says that he is available to meet outside of class but never actually wants to help. He is very aggressive with his students and gets rude. Overall he is not a great teacher. He also tells students that they can get extra credit when they write a good review!

Bro doesn't narrow down information to help you prepare for the test.

Horrible teacher. You'll get a lab grade and he will make the IA regrade it for the worse. Don't take him.

Just one line for him, He's a disaster!!!! I took his class and ended up getting an F. Get ready to read yourself and prepare yourself in advance for trauma if you are taking this class. Anatomy itself is a tough class, and guess what he makes it tougher :(

I am not a "naturally smart" student, but I work my butt off. I spent weeks studying 20+ hours from the start of the semester just to end up with a D. Exams cover every but of content covered or not. He is not a good teacher (fill in the blank notes) so the bulk of this is you on your own. However there is some EC available.

This might be the worst professor you'll ever have at Texas state. It's not that he's the most difficult, he is the most frustrating professor ever. He uses outlines only for notes and when he fills them in half the class can't read what he puts. He likes to talk about football and his ex, then make us watch videos because he ran out of time.

I cannot stress enough to not take Professor Acosta. His “notes” are just fill in the blanks and most of the times you can't read what he says. His labs that go with the lecture are pointless as you will just look at models the whole time then be expected to know all of it. Not to mention he told his class to only write good reviews about him!

All I'll say he's a very mean person, purposely wants you to fail the whole lecture is just filling in blanks on the notes and if you have a 69.999 he will not round up

Beware of this professor. He doesn't teach what well what's so ever. Your teaching yourself based on the book. Even the book doesn't help with how difficult his test are. Don't even try to ask to round your grade, his answers is NO. Be ready to reach your self and don't even brother going to his office for help. He expects you to know everything.

Professor Acosta is rude and a total time waster. His fill-in-the-blank notes are illegible and unhelpful. I studied 15+ hours weekly and barely scraped a C. Office hours are pointless—he talks down to students instead of helping. Avoid if you value your time, effort, and GPA. Not once did we finish everything in class, but still got tested on it.

Extremely rude and unhelpful in office hours after claiming to be. Doesn't ever finish any chapters and still tests on them. Cares more about setting up his camera in class than finishing material. He reads off blanks instead of actually teaching. Cares more about diagrams that we aren't tested on than the vital information. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

The only way you'll pass this class is if you spend 20+ hours a week reading and teaching yourself. He is not a teacher, he is someone you pay to waste your time. Same for the lab, you look at models and don't actually get taught a thing. This is the most pathetic teacher I've had. This entire course was passed because of myself.

Acosta is rude and impatient. Hardly teaches in class and expects the lab TAs to teach the content he is responsible for. Talks about his ex, cheerleaders, football at least every class. Waste time in so many ways, we never finished the material we were tested over. If you arent prepared to work your butt off by teaching yourself you will not pass.

Worst professor I've ever had. Trust me take the class somewhere else

Acosta is the worst teacher ever. He makes it even more confusing than it already is. He does fill in the blank without bothering to teach any of the info. Totally unprofessional

During this class It felt like a waste of time even going. He would only fill in blanks and not explain any of the information. The labs have absolutely no structure.The only reason I did so good in this class is because I taught myself completely and used other resources. I hope he can do better moving forward...

Acosta wasted time every class talking about unrelated stuff and didn't end up covering all the material we were supposed to. He didn't bother to actually teach the info and just assumed we already know it so I had to spend A TON of time outside studying. DO NOT RECOMMEND

This class was seriously hard and Acosta made so much worse. Avoid avoid avoid

I took Predrozo for A&P1 but didn't love him so I decided to give Acosta a shot for A&P2, biggest mistake ever. Fill in the blank notes from the textbook but doesn't elaborate. Tests are lengthy and wordy and were the demise of my grade. He cares more about making the class challenging rather than us actually learning. Take Pedrozo if you can.

I hated this class. It ate up all my time and Acosta was not helpful at all. He made the class as hard as possible. If you value your time, GPA, and money take the class somewhere else.

cried so much because of this class. Top hats never worked and were a significant part of the grade. The way he teaches doesn't help much so the textbook will be your best friend.

Do not recommend at all.There aren't other assignments that can help boost up your grade only exams and Top hat questions. We never even finished some of the chapters/lectures but were still tested on them.The professor was not helpful at all. I had to retake it at ACC and the material is not nearly as difficult as professor acosta made it to be.

Not a fan. Don't take

Essentially have to teach yourself. He's so far behind. If you care about grades, take someone else.

He is very pretentious and provides almost no help during office hours. He gets distracted and goes on tangents a LOT in lecture, so much so that by the end of the semester he had to cut two whole chapters in the textbook because he could not effectively manage lecture time. Class notes are extra credit for tests so definitely attend class and READ

Horrible professor claims to help but only to benefit him drops test questions to help us but only because if he didn't average our grades to 70 his average would be below a 60 He goes very off topic in class and cannot manage time have to teach yourself doesn't have a good lecture style Take Pedrozo if you want a good grade and helpful officehours

This course is difficult but it is made more so by this teachers lack of time management and empathy. Even if you are able to maintain a good grade in this course, the chances of it being because of his teaching are slim. Most of material had to be self taught + when students faced last minute emergencies he was not understanding whatsoever.

Acosta was WAY behind and lab was ahead. Makes it hard to do well and I had to teach myself everything. You're graded on lab and a few exams and that's it. He's at the top of worst teachers of all time list.

i dont get why he's allowed to teach. hello time management? we skipped a ton of info and so behind. its such a hard class and it made it so much harder.

Take someone else, better yet somewhere else

Acosta will have you constantly questioning your sanity throughout the course through how unorganized, unhelpful, and arrogant he is. This class being difficult is an understatement, and he showed time and time again how little he cares for his students to succeed. Please take this class somewhere else for the sake of your time and well-being.

Can say with 100% certainty he's the worst prof I've ever had. I spent so much time teaching myself and was *****LUCKY**** to get an A. He is a mess with a huge ego. I took him for AP1 & 2. He was wasted so much time and we were so behind we skipped a ton of information. In what world is the lab ahead of the lecture? TA's were fine

This man is the worst professor I have ever had. I went to his office hours, and he never knew the answers to my questions. Even in lecture he would say "Uh" "Um" anytime someone had a question. His exams are so difficult for no reason, and he leans on the outline as if he even knows how to teach the material. NO DONT TAKE

I regret taking this class with Acosta so much. It's not fair that we paid a lot of money for bad quality. He doesn't know how to teach, got behind so we had to skip chapters, was condescending and downright rude and not helpful during office hours.

Took pedrozo for A&P1 and Acosta for A&PII. They are both terrible. Only 2 people teach this class and honestly just take elsewhere. Isn't worth it taking it at Texas State

You have to spend A LOT of time on the content outside of class. His time management is horrible

I don't know what to say here

only takes attendance, exams and lab grade for class average. the class notes are fill in the blanks that can be turned in for extra credit but you will not learn anything unless you read and do your own research on certain topics. extremely time-consuming and probably the worst class I have had to take.

So time consuming as you would expect anatomy to be, however the professor just makes this worse with his sub par time management. You must dedicate hours and hours outside of lecture. If you can, take this class elsewhere. I do appreciate the extra credit.

Extremely poor lecture. I stopped paying attention in lecture and just started studying the textbook/doing work for other classes, and my grade actually got better. They ought to give you a teaching license if you pass this class, because the only way you're passing is if you teach yourself everything. Better than Pedrozo, at the very least.

Never in my four years of university have I felt hopeless in a class than this one. Every time I have to study for this I feel the urge to write a rmp review. This class is lecture heavy, but the lectures are rushed and he gives you an unorganized lecture outline with blanks to fill in. also forces u to watch his yt channel

If you MUST take A&P at txst, then Acosta is the way to go. Not because he's a good professor, but because he offers extra credit on his tests. That is the ONLY good thing I have to say about his class. Be prepped to cry, teach yourself, and study everyday. He gets behind, and will make you teach yourself what's missed. Only grades are 4 HARD Tests

If you want to crash and burn then take acosta. Not that pedrozo is any better. acosta is horrible and will suck all the joy out of life

DO NOT TAKE HIM! absolutely terrible. has no assignments so you have to read the whole book in order to learn because he doesn't teach, he reads his outlines and does fill in the blank… something that could be done at home. handwriting is HORRIBLE, would have to ask to spell out what he wrote and sometimes he's couldn't even read it.

Please choose peace if you can and not take this course. As an incoming straight-A student, I have no idea how I passed. It was so difficult in the lab and lecture. Its test heavy so your test grades matter. Please dont put off studying for his tests. They cover a lot of material and require lots of time to study for them. Goodluck :').

Any good reviews are fake. Acosta is awful. The stress from this class made my hair fall out

Acosta is nothing short of a nightmare. He's no help at all in this class. I hope you like teaching yourself for the entire semester

Don't take A&P at Texas State. Acosta may be barely better than pedrozo but he's still a complete joke. You're graded on a few exams and lab and that's it. The exams are really hard. 1 bad grade and it's over. The lab is just as bad.

Prepare to lose your mental well being and sacrifice your will to live for this class. All the good reviews sound like acosta wrote them and they're clearly false. Major grades are exams all based off of the textbook/random sections he calls out in class, tophat, and the lab. Read the textbook and do not procrastinate it will come back to bite you.

Anatomy is already extremely difficult, and Acosta somehow makes it ten times worse.his materials were impossible to understand and gave me almost no help at all, i had to study textbook. The exams are insanely difficult, the labs are awful too. This class destroyed my GPA and mental health. Do yourself a favor and take this class anywhere else.

sometime I wish people riding scooter on campus run into me to take me out of this terrible A&P class. Unfortunately I have no choice to take A&P2 with him again and suffer for another semester. If you have a chance please take A&P somewhere else. it will save your mental health and tear that you would cry every night about this class.

he was previously arrested for assult- also a terrible teacher. this class was made 10x harder than it should have. obvi a&p isn't an easy topic but this professor ego is so high and when asked for tips he just says “study more” like no duh i didn't think of that. honestly i would take with anyone else. atleast we got extra credit for notes on test

If you expect an A don't expect to have a life at all. I only passed with an A due to spending all my free time at the library studying for his class and micro. Never wanted to cry more and get hit by a car while on my to class more in my life. Legit got a stress induced bald spot from this class and never saw friends that's all I have to say.

Don't take A&P at Texas State; consider a community college instead. I studied heavily as a full-time athlete with Pedrozo and Acosta, and still barely passed or failed exams. They made it unnecessarily hard, and office hours were unhelpful. Pedrozo at least offered homework. I retook it at a community college, studied a few days, and earned an A.

Acosta's ego is bigger than the state of texas. Get ready to teach yourself and cry every day. Fyi he's been arrested for asault