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would you recommend caps 390 or caps 391? (if you had to choose one) and also in relation with caps 301
I haven’t taken 391, but the consensus I’ve gotten from many is in terms of easiness, CAPS 390 > 391 > 301. I’d choose 390 for both easiness and applicability - histology helps if you’re looking to get into life sciences research. CAPS 391 is macroscopic so it can be very helpful for med, and I hear the info is pretty interesting.
Hey! Would you mind doing a course review for PSYC 314 (King) and CAPS 390 (various)? I'm interested in taking those courses. Thank you! (/◕ヮ◕)/
Yeah, for sure!
PSYC 314 - Health Psychology
Grading: 2 midterms (33.3% each), 1 final (33.3%); option of 3% HSP creditContent: textbook (MC only) + lectures (MC and short answer)
I took this course with David King in a winter session. He’s a pretty great lecturer, first off, and he’s really approachable for course content as well as extracurriculars. He actually says in the first lecture that you can feel free to ask him to be a reference so long as he’s talked to you a bit and knows who you are, which is super nice! He’s also interested in mental health and sustainability, and he also loves his cat Atticus. :) Lectures are a nice mix of his talking and some video clips (e.g. someone who’s at the end-of-life, reflecting) relevant to the course. He puts up pretty detailed lecture slides beforehand so it’s easy to take notes. Basically, I’d definitely recommend him as a professor. (Side note: he also has a blog and he’s pretty awesome. Also, at least 3 guys I know would rate him the hottest prof at UBC. You’re welcome.)
Now for course content, I have to say Health Psyc gets a bit repetitive. I think it’s highly valuable (that’s an understatement) for anyone going into healthcare, and the overall ideas are important even for everyday life. However, once you get further into the course, the ideas tend to repeat and I got a bit bored reading the textbook. Lectures remain pretty interesting but that’s probably more the prof than the material (er, by that I mean both his lecturing and his good looks tbh). This course was on the easier side of the psyc courses I’ve taken. The averages for the two sections were 70 and 72.
Overall I’d recommend this course if you’re interested in healthcare.
Check this post out for some general psyc study tips and a bit of my PSYC 314 notes.
CAPS 390 - Intro to Microscopic Human Anatomy (Histology)
Grading: online quizzes (5% each for 4), midterm (20%), final (60%)Content: lectures + textbook (they say about 15% is extra from the textbook but tbh IT’S A LIE YOU DON’T NEED THE TEXTBOOK unless you want a good reference.) Take a look at the syllabus.
So CAPS 390 format is pretty weird - you get different profs for each subject pretty much, which is a mixed blessing: the bad profs, you don’t have to spend that much time with, but you also have to get used to each lecturing style immediately. Profs vary a lot in how much info they put in their slides; personally I found embryology/development extremely difficult to study for because the slides were really bad. Luckily, most profs have pretty good notes, organization-wise and content-wise.
The course is pretty memorization-heavy. The exams are mostly MC, some short answer (fill-in-the-blank for sentences and diagrams, and some actual short answers i.e. answer a question with a sentence), pretty straight-forward stuff. For me personally, I felt pretty overwhelmed when I was studying for the midterm (there’s just so much info), but I did well on the final after cramming for 3 days. So my tip: cram?
The quizzes are open-book, online, and not limited for time (i.e. there’s a deadline but you can have it open for as long as you want before that deadline). I think they discourage working with others, but I think discussion is really valuable, because these questions are harder than exam questions. It’s not hard to get high marks on the quizzes because the majority of the answers you can get straight from the notes.
This course was mandatory for me, but I think it’s generally quite important if you are planning on doing any lab work, be it volunteer, a summer project, or coop. Microscopy, histology, and cellular functioning put into the context of disease - that’s how I’d describe the course. My friend for example, impressed at his interview for the Vancouver Prostate Center by talking about the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and what happens in cancer - this was exactly what we did in class! I’ve also found it helpful for cell adhesion, both for its implications in larger-scale physiology (gap junctions in the heart) and for research purposes (my thesis, probably). In short: pretty broad coverage, well-designed to make you think of disease relevance, and a good foundation.
[The course coordinator (Roskelley), who also teaches some of the material (basically whatever he can’t find other people to teach?? LOL) is really nice. He answers questions enthusiastically in class and he was really understanding about exam conflicts. I actually had 3 exams just outside the 24-hour window that UBC recognizes and they were right at the beginning of exam season; he offered to everyone that if you have 2+ exams in a 36-hour window, he’d be happy to reschedule the CAPS 390 final. This was a lifesaver!]
Would you recommend CAPS 391 or CAPS 390? I just need 3 credits of physiology for the professional program I am interested in. Thanks!
I personally enjoyed 390 more than 391. I found 390 to be less redundant and more interesting to learn and study even though it taught anatomy at the cellular level.
When I was studying for 391, I would just sit there for hours with this expression on my face —> -_-, there was just so much stuff to know; all the little bones, joints, veins, muscles of every part of the body.
That being said, depending on your professional program and your own personal interests, 391 might be more beneficial for you. I can definitely see it being helpful for anyone who is interested in healthcare (medicine, nursing, dentistry etc). I wasn’t very interested in those areas so I guess that’s why I had the “kill me” expression every time I was studying haha.
You can look up CAPS 391 and CAPS 390 to see my reviews on them when they were still fresh in my mind. CAPS 390 might still be tagged as ANAT 390 for some of my posts, so you might want to look that up as well (yes, I’m old).
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As someone who is interested in taking CAPS 390/391 during the summer, how doable is taking both of them during the same summer term? Was it too overwhelming? Should I do only one of them or both of them?
I would not recommend doing both at the same time, the amount of detail you are expected to know for 391 is astounding. These two courses, unlike other ones where you have to apply your knowledge, requires that you memorize hundreds of terms and this can get overwhelming! I liked 390 more than 391, but only because 390 seemed to have less to memorize haha.
Which courses have you taken in the summer?
I’ve taken:
BIOL 204 (Vertebrate Structure and Function) - Summer 2011
CAPS/ANAT 390 (Introduction to Microscopic Human Anatomy) - Summer 2012
CAPS/ANAT 391 (Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy) - Summer 2013
ENGL 301 (Technical Writing) - Summer 2013
BIOL 343 (Plants and Peoples) - Summer 2013
Do I have a life during the summers?…no…not really…
How manageable is it taking 2 summer courses in the same term? I've only taken 1 summer course so far, chem 233, and I would have done a lot worse if I had taken another course along with it. However, chem 233 could be an exception since its pretty tough. Which summer courses that you've taken or heard about that you think should also be taken alone, and which are manageable taken along with another course?
It’s manageable if like myself, you have no life. I’m only half kidding. I took an online course that ran for the entire 4 months and different lecture-based courses for each term, totaling 3 courses this previous summer. There was one point where I had like 7 things due (on top of 2 final exams to study for) in less than 2 weeks and it drove me crazy.
My online course was ENGL 301, which wasn’t too bad because the pace was like with a regular winter session course, but it was online, so I had to keep myself on top of everything. I took ANAT/CAPS 391 first semester, these two courses combined weren’t too bad because although I had at least 2 weekly assignments due for ENGL 301, CAPS 391 only had a midterm and a final. However, then I took BIOL 343, and this course was A LOT of work, the material wasn’t too bad, but we had assignments due almost every single class, on top of labs. BIOL 343 and ENGL 301 at the same time, in the summer, drove me insane near the end. Don’t get me wrong, I actually loved BIOL 343 and also enjoyed ENGL 301, but boy, the workload got a little crazy heavy!
Take home message: CAPS 390/391 (or any course that is straight-up memorization and only has a midterm and final) is pretty manageable taken with another course.
I haven't gotten off the waitlist for CAPS 390 yet. I don't think the instructor has added anyone.. Should I be worried? :/ I assumed I would get registed for that class so I didn't register for a backup class..
Classes haven’t started yet, so I’m sure people are going to drop the course in the next few days. If you still don’t get in, you could try contacting the instructor, if it’s a REQUIRED course, you can ask your advisor to help!
