SCU, Accelerated Science CoursesReviews of scuhs.edu

The course accomplished my needs. Nothing special about it. The instructor was not following a grading rubric for the discussion posts and did not provide further explanation how to improve grades in that section.

This course is very fast paced. The professors are helpful, but ultimately the exams are taken from McGraw Hill test banks. The questions come from over 200 pages of reading and might be about something written in parenthesis. Thus, it feels like you can study for hours and be asked about something you've never heard of. I think the exam test banks do not accurately gauge students understanding, nor provide an opportunity for true learning. To do well, you have to memorize a lot of information and have a large foundation of knowledge to build off of. I think if the professors were able to change the structure of the course it would be better. Tutoring is really helpful. The professors are understanding and willing to help and give extensions if you ask. I wish they would actually write the exams. Also, you can drop the class up until the very last day of the course, so you should submit all the homework and discussion posts to boost your grade and your final grade will jump up even if it seems low.

Asynchronous class Accessibility and speed is cool, but be aware you are going to literally teach yourself everything. As this is my second experience taking these classes at scuhs, taking these lectures offer no help nor do the professors make any changes to set their student up for success. My class averages were a F on each exam and no adjustments or announcement's were made to set the class up for success. All their "resources" they give to help are just copy and paste information from previous instructors prior. The only resource you get that helps you is the free textbook included w your $1650 tuition. Labs are way easier to manage and they give more resources than the lectures, a general video description of each concept. At that, each block just uses recycled canvas posting from the past in hopes the student will learn the information on their own. Overall, accessibility and time deadlines is the only pro I can see by taking this class. It is very hard to manage a lecture/lab if one is working part-time and still be successful in this class because you really have to teach yourself everything. The 5 week span will be very hard as it will require you to spend a vigorous amount of time dedicated to not only finishing the 25 assignments a week and an exam, but also preparing yourself to teach all the information on your own. These are things to consider when selecting your class. It is very awesome to be so accessible , but not setting each student up for success is what stands a program out from another accelerated program. An honest review.

While I appreciate the ability to take a course with an accelerated pace to help me quickly satisfy my grad school prerequisites, prospective students should know that you will be teaching yourself all of the material. There are no lectures from the professors - and, as such, it is impossible to know what information is important to remember and what isn't. My experience with this course was me reading multiple chapters of the textbook to myself, taking vigorous notes and making hundreds of flashcards, studying to truly understand the key topics...and then being completely flabbergasted when it came to exams to see that many of the questions were about outrageously obscure facts. It felt like I was getting tested on my ability to memorize 500+ pages of a textbook in 5 weeks (an impossible task) instead of my ability study, synthesize, and explain key concepts. The fact is, this is a 5 week course, and it's simply impossible to memorize/synthesize all of the information in the textbook, so you need to pick your battles and choose what to focus your studies on. I ultimately chose to focus on things that I knew would actually be relevant to my grad program, rather than remembering the intensely detailed steps of a process that I'll forget by next week. If the professors offered lectures or gave more detailed study guides (the ones offered in the course were incredibly vague/general and not helpful at all), then perhaps it would be easier to know what you truly need to understand. As it is, you're on your own. So good luck! My biggest gripe with this component is that I tried to schedule two tutoring exams with my professor, a service that the course syllabus says is included with tuition. Both times, the professor cancelled with no offer to reschedule. So much for "teaching." I didn't receive a single minute of actual instruction during this course. For something that cost me over $2000, the only real benefit is the speed at which it moves. But it's frustrating to pay that much money to, in essence, teach myself information from a textbook I could have paid $100 for. All of the professors were kind people, but I really encourage them to reexamine how this course is structured and how it functions (hey, that's what Anatomy & Physiology is all about). I did not have a positive experience and I truly hope that can change for other students in the future.

There was hardly any teaching. The actual professor did not teach a thing and the lectures were pre-recorded by students whom we had never met and who were all over the place commonly going rogue away from the lecture slides.

The fast pace of the courses are convenient, however some of the instructors seem a bit confused with the core focus … I’ve done well in past courses but this summer was a terrible experience for me… lab instructor was great and to the point but idk what happened with the lecture instructor. Needless to say it was a complete waste of my money…

I like the ease of the online course and the professor was fine, what I didn’t like was the book used: It used a bad bias version of the Hippocratic Oath which I found very offensive. And it also used prefixes and suffixes that are in line with the real word. I found the book outdated. Also we were not told ahead of time we needed a web camera which I had to buy and then I had to buy a converter (which I want aware it needed until it arrived) which caused me to do the video late and I lost points. Had I known the course needed a Camera before hand I would have bought it and not had to wait to send in the video. I explained the situation to the professor but still had points taken off

I dislike that each lecture was given by someone different with a different teaching style and we weren't able to have consistency throughout.