08-22-2020, 04:48 AM
Provider: ASU EA
Course: ASM 246 - Human Origins
Course content: Mostly videos with some free PDFs to download. Cerego flash cards. Many Cerego topics will show up with exactly the same or only slightly different wording on the quizzes/final exam so it is especially helpful to review Cerego before the midterm and final exams.
Final exam format: About 40 or 50 multiple-choice questions.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final exam draws from the same pool of questions as the weekly quizzes. The same with the midterm. Study Cerego and your previous week's quizzes and you should be well-poised to get a good grade.
Time taken on course: 8-week course, including finals week.
Familiarity with subject before course: Not much. I had no idea that there were quite so many discovered human ancestors!
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I think everything except one or two questions total was covered in the videos and those questions were covered in one of the weekly PDFs. You don't have to go digging for information, unlike with Astronomy. However, the Latin names of the species and the body parts can get confusing. What is a nuchal torus? A sagittal crest? And for which species is this important? These topics are explained simply but I found it difficult to actually retain this information.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3 for the material in general but a 5 or 6 when you factor in the Latin names that need to be remembered.
Final grade: A - I did fairly well through the course, going into the final with something like a 98% for work completed thus far. But the Latin names were not sticking and I was only expecting a C. If I had gotten one more question wrong (and I got many of them wrong), I think I would've dropped down to a B.
Course: ASM 246 - Human Origins
Course content: Mostly videos with some free PDFs to download. Cerego flash cards. Many Cerego topics will show up with exactly the same or only slightly different wording on the quizzes/final exam so it is especially helpful to review Cerego before the midterm and final exams.
Final exam format: About 40 or 50 multiple-choice questions.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final exam draws from the same pool of questions as the weekly quizzes. The same with the midterm. Study Cerego and your previous week's quizzes and you should be well-poised to get a good grade.
Time taken on course: 8-week course, including finals week.
Familiarity with subject before course: Not much. I had no idea that there were quite so many discovered human ancestors!
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I think everything except one or two questions total was covered in the videos and those questions were covered in one of the weekly PDFs. You don't have to go digging for information, unlike with Astronomy. However, the Latin names of the species and the body parts can get confusing. What is a nuchal torus? A sagittal crest? And for which species is this important? These topics are explained simply but I found it difficult to actually retain this information.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3 for the material in general but a 5 or 6 when you factor in the Latin names that need to be remembered.
Final grade: A - I did fairly well through the course, going into the final with something like a 98% for work completed thus far. But the Latin names were not sticking and I was only expecting a C. If I had gotten one more question wrong (and I got many of them wrong), I think I would've dropped down to a B.
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