{"id":504,"date":"2016-06-24T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/?p=504"},"modified":"2017-06-24T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T05:59:07","slug":"ubc-second-year-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/ubc-second-year-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Second Year Courses for Pharmacology, physiology and how to study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First term<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHEM 233 &#8211; Organic Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>CHEM 235 &#8211; Organic Chemistry Lab<\/li>\n<li>BIOL 200 &#8211; Cell Biology<\/li>\n<li>PCTH 201 &#8211; Drugs and Society<\/li>\n<li>STAT 200 &#8211; Statistics<\/li>\n<li>(Note: You should take CHEM 211 here if you&#8217;re a Honours Physiology or Pharmacology major. )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Second term<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SOCI 102- Sociology<\/li>\n<li>PHYS 118 &#8211; Electricity and Magnetism<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 202 &#8211; Medical Biochemistry<\/li>\n<li>CHEM 205 &#8211; Physical Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>PSYC Introduction to Psychology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These classes were really useful for the MCAT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BIOC 202<\/li>\n<li>BIOL 200<\/li>\n<li>PHYS 118<\/li>\n<li>SOCI 102<\/li>\n<li>PSYC 101<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CHEM 233 Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had Dr. Jackie Stewart as my professor and she&#8217;s great. Super enthusiastic about what she teaches and willing to help us if we don&#8217;t understand.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t take 8 AM Ochem though. You will regret signing for 8 am class every morning until the end of the term. You&#8217;ve been warned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CHEM 235 Organic Chemistry Lab<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very useful class.<\/li>\n<li>Your TA and your benchmates are your saviours. Love them, be nice to them, help them. You all are part of a team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PCTH 201 Drugs and Society<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I highly recommend this elective. It inspired me to major in Pharmacology and Neuroscience!<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Horne is awesome. Enough said. Take this class.<\/li>\n<li>If you put in the effort, you will do well in this class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STAT 200 Statistics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highly recommend this elective too. Very useful if you do research.<\/li>\n<li>The midterm was really challenging so our professor changed the grading scheme so that more weight was on the final.<\/li>\n<li>I went to office hours so often that my professor, Dr. Lang, started to anticipate that I would be back the next week haha. Use office hours!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BIOL 200 Cell Biology<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The material was really cool but the exams are difficult to do well in.<\/li>\n<li>The problem sets have no answers and this will anger you while you study. You don&#8217;t understand me now but you will later. Going to office hours for answers helps only mildly.<\/li>\n<li>You will want to tear out your hair writing your press release because you don&#8217;t fully understand the article you&#8217;re supposed to be advertising.<\/li>\n<li>To be honest, if you don&#8217;t need this class and are not taking it for interest, avoid this class. It&#8217;s a lot of work and the exams and assignments are frustrating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Term 2:<\/p>\n<p>BIOC 202 Medical Biochemistry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Williams will play biochemistry songs. He&#8217;s cool.<\/li>\n<li>I found this class pretty interesting! You will too probably if you&#8217;re interested in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, etc because there are many examples related to medications and medical conditions.<\/li>\n<li>the exams were tough even with tons and tons of studying<\/li>\n<li>Study tip: Study with friends before exams! It helps to explain your answers and quiz each other on details and draw out pathways on whiteboards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CHEM 205 Physical Chemistry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our professor provided us with tons of practice exams and problem sets &#8211; such a blessing.<\/li>\n<li>Class attendance is optional &#8211; just a FYI for all you self-learners out there.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t say I found the material particularly interesting but the material is useful for the MCAT and understanding biochemistry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PHYS 118 Electricity and Magnetism<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Useful class, interesting class, easy midterms but the final was difficult because it covered everything from the beginning to the end of the semester.<\/li>\n<li>There are clicker questions every class so be prepared.<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial is optional but I highly recommend attending to get guidance from the TAs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SOCI 102 Sociology<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was super excited to attend class!<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Neil Armitage is the man you want for your professor.<\/li>\n<li>The written assignments are difficult to do well on though<\/li>\n<li>My TA was really helpful for tips and feedback if you&#8217;re struggling with writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PSYC 101 Psychology<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After I took this class, I decided to change my major to Neuroscience and Pharmacology so you can guess how much I loved this class.<\/li>\n<li>Easy to do well in if you attend class and study a reasonable amount. I&#8217;m not sure why this class is notorious for being alarmingly difficult. My guess is that it might be difficult if you take this first semester of first year when you&#8217;re not used to the workload of university yet.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Luke Clark is super cool and a good professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First term CHEM 233 &#8211; Organic Chemistry CHEM 235 &#8211; Organic Chemistry Lab BIOL 200 &#8211; Cell Biology PCTH 201 &#8211; Drugs and Society STAT 200 &#8211; Statistics (Note: You should take CHEM 211 here if you&#8217;re a Honours Physiology or Pharmacology major. ) Second term SOCI 102- Sociology PHYS 118 &#8211; Electricity and Magnetism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/ubc-second-year-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UBC Second Year Courses for Pharmacology, physiology and how to study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,1292278],"tags":[809159,194],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-study-material","tag-academic-success","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shannayeung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}