PHYSCI M178
Quantitative Regulatory Biology and Signal Transduction
Description: (Formerly numbered 178.) (Same as Computational and Systems Biology M178 and Microbiology M178.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, 30A, 30B. Introduction to key biological regulatory circuit motifs and systems biology concepts that are critical to understanding how cellular responses are controlled. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2025 - everyone says this class is easy but I strongly disagree. The homework assignments are too much to do each week (we had an assignment due right before and after thanksgiving) and I felt like the lecture material did not adequately prepare us to do the homework. The grading is harsh so even though our final grade is almost made entirely of the homework, it's not "easy". I took way harder physci classes and managed to get a high A+, and I barely scraped by to get an A in this class. Also the final project literally sucks. The groups are randomly assigned and my group did not communicate or start working on the project until like 2 days before it was due. If your group is good it's prob better but since it's random you don't know what it's going to be like. The timeline for the project was also terrible, they should have introduced it way sooner and allowed us to meet our groups more than once during the quarter since there are no discussions, which makes it hard to actually find time to work. Also they say there's no coding skills required to do well in the class but we literally had to code for our final project...overall I wouldn't recommend this class. It's easy to get through each week but at the end of the quarter, it's not easy to get an A.
Fall 2025 - everyone says this class is easy but I strongly disagree. The homework assignments are too much to do each week (we had an assignment due right before and after thanksgiving) and I felt like the lecture material did not adequately prepare us to do the homework. The grading is harsh so even though our final grade is almost made entirely of the homework, it's not "easy". I took way harder physci classes and managed to get a high A+, and I barely scraped by to get an A in this class. Also the final project literally sucks. The groups are randomly assigned and my group did not communicate or start working on the project until like 2 days before it was due. If your group is good it's prob better but since it's random you don't know what it's going to be like. The timeline for the project was also terrible, they should have introduced it way sooner and allowed us to meet our groups more than once during the quarter since there are no discussions, which makes it hard to actually find time to work. Also they say there's no coding skills required to do well in the class but we literally had to code for our final project...overall I wouldn't recommend this class. It's easy to get through each week but at the end of the quarter, it's not easy to get an A.
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