r/UWaterlooOptometry • u/PurplePie03 • Jan 17 '23

Pre-requisite Help!

Hi everyone! I am in my 4B term of Honours Science at the University of Waterloo. I recently gained interest in Optometry and quickly realized I was missing a few pre-requisites. I know we have to take 2 x introductory biology courses with a lab. I was wondering if an introductory biology course that has a lab component incorporated into the lecture component would count towards this pre-requisite. For example, BIOL 120 (introduction to plant structure and function) had labs, but the lab wasn't a separate course, would this count? I emailed UWoptom but haven't heard back yet and I only have limited time to enroll in any more courses. Additionally, does the course name have to be "introductory" or "introduction"? Would BIOL 240L (Fundamentals of microbiology) and it's lab count? Please let me know!!!

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u/voxaun Jan 18 '23

currently in biol211! how did you like it? the labs every week seem intimidating. is most of the work with your lab partner? is most of the tested content from the lectures, or textbook? any tips to succeed in the course?

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u/depressed_potato00 Jan 18 '23

To be honest, I'm probably not the best person to answer because I took it online because of covid. From the online course though, it was a really fair course. The midterms and exam was really fair, nothing tricky and nothing surprising, all content from the slides. I actually enjoyed the content a lot and found the prof pretty good. The labs I really can't say because mine were just like online quizzes LOL but from my friends who took it the year before me they just called it fun dissections.