ImmunologyAt the start, we had no idea what to do. We had a very short introductory lecture which did not tell us much because we didn't know the system. This lead to several hours trying to figure out how to use the mail and blackboard (pingpong equivalent) and what the things on the schedule actually meant. The content was very good, very straight forward and it followed the suggested literature. The exam was too short to answer all the questions the way i wanted, and i did write for three hours straight without pause. The seminars were so helpful and i wish we had more of them in all courses.
Infectious agents and immunity
First two weeks had very much useful information, but the three weeks after didn't really contribute much. There were two projects during the course which, according to me, was very hard, time consuming and pointless to the course.
The exam was structured in an odd way and i did not agree at all with the final grading.
Physiology, basic concepts I
Very much lectures with competent lecturers, which i appreciated very much. A bad thing was that we had 4 different course books, which contained somewhat the same information and i spent so much time reading it all when it was in fact only one book needed. The content of the course was very good, but i would say that in a school that rely that much on self studies, the page references should be flawless.
Physiology, basic concepts II
The most disappointing thing about this course was the indifferent course responsible person. I tried to contact him several times with different dilemmas (not only study-wise) and i was ignored several times and no times was spent trying to help me. I understand that he is probably a very busy man, but when i have a problem that can only be solved by the course responsible i expect that i will get help.
Otherwise the content of the course was very satisfying.
The examinations of the Physiology courses was a complete disaster. The grammar and English in general of the people writing the exams was not great because there was several times where i had no idea what they were asking about (even if i knew the topic and actually the answer as well)
BAST, CIS och Electrophysiology for exchange students
Everything i want to say about these courses is that they are worthless, but they are not. They were in fact very good and we learnd quite a lot. The only problem is that it was so incredibly time consuming and it interfered with the other courses too much. Enough to compromise exam results and other projects. This was the determining factor to why Leiden studies for exchange students was so hard. Except from the time thing, all of the courses was pretty well organized and informative.