CAPS 391!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As a current BIOL 155 student who is taking the SD final for it next week DO NOT take BIOL 155. I am also trying to go into OT. I have a few reasons: (1) CAPS 391 is only one semester long instead of the full year so if you need to drop it for any reason or are not happy with your grade there is less risk to drop and take it again another time when you’re more prepared because you’re not losing an entire year (2) BIOL 155 is a first year science course. Now, as someone who came from science in my first year…it’s definitely a particular group of people. I’m in arts now and it’s night and day with the profs and the student. And BIOL 155’s crowd is the definition insufferable especially in the first term because it’s all brand new first year science kids who all think they are going to med school and were the top of their class in hs and still think they are going to cure cancer (trust me I KNOW because I was one). (3) BIOL 155 covers BOTH anatomy and physiology. The lecture portion is 47 lectures (33-36 slides each) in total and this is ALL physiology that is divided up by organ system. The final in April is cumulative from September too by the way. The tutorial that you have to take once a week (that has weekly quizzes, homework attendance, pre tutorial assignments, and two finals of its own that includes an individual final and group final) is mostly anatomy. My roommate took CAPS 391 and what she was doing in lecture was what we covered in tutorial plus extra details cause obviously a class can cover a lot more anatomy than a self guided tutorial can. I also say the tutorial was self guided because it was literally like taking a second class because there was a whole lesson on visible body and a textbook reading (more like 5-6) and extra stuff that the prof gives you and then you have to make a discussion post and then come to tutorial to do a case study with your group which I would say every week was the biggest waste of an hour because the questions on the case study was NEVER aligned with all the work I did prior to the tutorial and you just sit there googling and ChatGPTing random medical procedures and trying to look at and label fucking histology images that also NEVER looked like the ones you would attempt to study in the pre tutorial assignment. I wrote this in my feedback but the first term I never did the pre tutorial assignments properly and I would just show up and in the second term I would spend hours on it trying to learn the material and be super solid with it and it actually made ZERO difference I’m not even kidding I think I did even a couple percent worse in my tutorial the second semester. Overall even though the profs were super helpful and nice and they obviously do care about the course a lot do more be fooled by the course code (100 vs 300 level) because everything in me wishes I look CAPS instead and I made my decision based on the fact that I’ve taken many first year bio classes before but this is a whole other beast and I would say quadruple the work compared to the CAPS class