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Originally Posted by batgirl
Physician's Assistant. I'm actually just taking these two classes as pre-recs so I can start my masters in the fall.
It's funny, there are no requirements for my A&P class, so no one is expected to know more than high school anything. I mean, we spent some of last class going over the periodic table and what each number in each box means. She then decided to draw a Hydrogen atom on the board. I have taken college level chemistry, organic chemistry, biology and biochemistry. She's drawing atoms. I wondered if she heard my jaw drop on the floor.
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Ah, that makes sense. I'm taking them as prereqs for a nursing program.
Microbiology's an upper-level class and most of the students are bio majors, so it's probably reasonable for them to assume that most people have had molecular biology. I'm coming at it sort of out of order (this is my first semester back and nobody teaches Chem I in the spring), but I deal. A&P is much more basic--not THAT basic, but I think in most places it's an early-program class.
Though they do expect you to pick up a lot of information in a short amount of time. The lab has been running us through the bones and each of their individual structures, which I'm told they WILL drill into you several times before you get out of any vaguely medical-related program. The massage therapist at our table is an old hand at this, but the rest of us are totally lost.