Took it because it was part of the major, quite interesting if you like research and assignment stuff but not really a subject for me. Lecturers and demonstrators are really considerate and friendly, subject is coordinated to help you and builds up to the final assignment (even though I didn't really do that well). But overall is a good subject!

This has to be one of the most poorly coordinated subjects in all of BSc. The subject coordinator Angelina Fong is rude and so unorganised (literally delayed the release of an assignment because she fell behind in her lectures that she never finishes and so the ridiculous amount of assignments' due dates began clashing). There's no consistency in the marking and you don't get to see your percentage grades for any assignment until the release of results date. So you don't know whether you got 80 or 100% because you just see H1 (for e.g.). If you're after feedback for what you lost marks on, forget it because the markers make up arbitrary numbers depending on how much they like you. My friends and I received the worst grades we had for this subject. It's like taking on the workload of two subjects from which you gain no Physiology knowledge from. Maybe only some subjective knowledge on how to write reports on terribly deigned and convoluted experiments that produced expectedly terrible results (still a useless subject though). People who take this because they think it's an easy breadth beware, I think that stigma has gotten to Angelina so now she tries to take off marks for little to no reason and the final assignment is a joke. She expects second year students to write a report in the style of the Journal of Physiology. You won't understand how subjective of a request that is for an assignment until you have to do it. If you're going to hold post graduate international journal expectations from second year students at least provide students with an experiment that is of matching quality to those that are in international journals. Also, it does not coincide well with PHYS20008 because in this subject, my practical group (first of the week) had to practicals on topics we were goin to learn later in the week in PHYS20008. I'm not a trump supporter but god damn, these other reviews seem like fake news!!! Literally one of the reviews was from sem 1 2017 copy and pasted (word for word) and posted as a new review for sem 1 2018, with the 2017 version being deleted. My friends (all have 85+ WAMs) and were too scared to post reviews here because we're afraid the teachers may find out (taking a bullet for the team) so initailly we posted them through uniMelb Love Letters and none of them were ever posted on that too (other subjects get posted and ours weren't even that serious they were comical in nature). One reviewer said "Big assignment is incredibly time consuming and difficult in my humble opinion but they give you drafts for each section." Depending on the 'anonymous marker' you get my group found our drafts to be completely useless and sometimes even contradictory to what the subject coordinator taught us in her lectures. We also literally have screenshots of Angelina having deleted negative reviews and student complaints on Piazza too lol.

This subject was run really well and compliments PHYS20008 (Human Physiology) fantastically. It was one the first subjects where I felt I was actually learning how to “science” as opposed to passively learning and then reproducing facts for an exam. Overall very enjoyable and highly recommended for anyone who likes physiology.

Manageable, really good idea to do concurrently with human physiology. H1 achievable. I got H3 on the big assignment but still got H1 overall. Big assignment is incredibly time consuming and difficult in my humble opinion but they give you drafts for each section. In summary, do it but be meticulous in your answers for each question of the assignments and practical reports.

Just when I thought Charles' Human Phys PHYS20008 couldn't be beaten! This was an absolutely amazing course. I loved everyone in my group and so did my other friends who were placed in different groups. It is so well coordinated and you will always get a response for any questions you may have. You will definitely be in good hands with this one. Just put in the work and be as pedantic as possible with the prac report details.

physiology subjects in general are very well run and organised, and this subject was done amazingly. mainly focuses on report writing in groups and your overall experience comes down to whether you work well with your group members or not.

They revamped the structure to fit with PHYS20008, so taking it together will help with your understanding in PHYS20008

Annoying but rather easy

Relatively easy subject but take human phys before this subject. If Deane is still the coordinator, she is hopeless and more interested in her phd students then her undergrad students.

Also recommend doing PHYS20008 first, but if you do the two concurrently your revision for exams will overlap quite a lot which helps with confidence going in. The pracs are quite easy most of the time, the only 'stressful' one is when you do the prac for your 'big' report, but if your group is organised you'll be fine. If you don't know how to use Excel, you certainly will once this subject is over, because it features heavily in your reports. You may be asked to be a participant in your group's experiments over the weeks e.g. breathe into a pneumotachometer, take blood pressure, ride an exercise bike etc (but if you don't want to there is normally someone else in the group willing to be your guinea pig). Generally, quite enjoyable and an easy H1 if you write a good final report- make sure you devote enough time to it, especially by doing the drafts (its pretty much your demonstrator telling you what they would mark you down on, so if you fix it then you should do decently)