Terrible lectures and overall structure. There are no tutorials, only 2 half-assed explanations for each assignment. As other reviewers have said, there is also no connection between the 3 lecturers. You go from DNA and cell biology to some ECM stuff (which no one understands) and then finally some structure and development to round it all off. You have to do a 1.5k word assignment on CRISPR-Cas9, where you are bombarded with a crazy amount of information about how to do the assignment. After that, you do a group project with 7 other random people in the unit; where you receive almost no info whatsoever. Whenever anyone in the unit asked for further guidance, we were just told to read the tutorial slides which were no help. If you are majoring in human bio and want to enjoy your penultimate semester, just do ANHB3321 and the investigations unit

As other reviewers have said, the unit itself is a good idea that is poorly executed. Lectures don't feel connected and are a mixture of high school human biology and very high depth content. Lectures often went overtime too. The assignments are interesting but they don't link up with the lectures that well. The group assignment involved randomly chosen group members. Many groups including myself received members who did not have the same work ethic and expectations. You either compromise and carry their workload or get a low mark, as there is no individual mark for the assignment itself. This is innappropriate considering that many students are aiming for a high GPA and don't need unnecessary stress like this. The exam is the only assessment that involves the lectures, and was open book. A HD is achievable in this unit if you put a lot of effort into the assignments.

This unit definitely feels more like a molecular biology unit than an ANHB unit. Most lectures are extremely content-heavy, super long and way more in depth than they need to be. However, I found most of the actual content quite interesting but just presented in a bad way. The assessments aren't too difficult. I even enjoyed the group assignment - bit of a shocker. I would recommend this unit if you're more into concepts - think stem cells, gene editing etc. - and it is definitely possible to get a HD if you put some effort in.

24 disjointed lectures that cover content taught in many other units during the ANHB undergrad degree. 0 resources where supplied to us to help practise for the exam apart from a lazy written handful of formative questions. Dr Hodges lectures where a nightmare to get through, often going into far too much depth that was required. the only reason I didnt given this unit lower is because it is quite achievable to get a HD if you do well in the assignments

Good idea for a unit, but poor execution. A lot of the content was an easier repetition of concepts covered in 2nd level units for other majors. There were only 2 assessments throughout the semester. Each was worth 30%, including a group presentation which had no mark allocated for individual performance. Randomly assigned groups meant that 30% of your grade relied on the ability of >5 unknown group members. This might have been acceptable had there been an individual presentation mark component, with which you could display your competency separate from the group. However, this was not the case, and you were punished for the poor performance of group members that you had no choice to work with. In third year, this seems to me an unacceptable method of assessment, considering the importance of GPA for many about to graduate. Assessments should be weighted less, with additional tests for students to demonstrate engagement in the course content separate from the final exam. Finally, not all lectures had clear learning objectives and as a result it was unclear what degree of memorisation or learning was required.

Interesting ground-up approach to human biology and function