BIOL2010 · Biology
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
Foundational course required for Biology majors with a focus on the ecology and resilience of living systems across all levels of spatial scales. Topics introduced in this course include evolution, population dynamics, behavioral ecology, ecosystems, co-evolution, and human ecology.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.7 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.5 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.0 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.2 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~6.5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Student perspective
Recovered and new anonymous comments are shown as written and may reflect different course formats.
Apr 17, 2026 · Historical comment
actual content is pretty easy, what makes this class hard is the amount of content on each exam. So much to memorize and missing 5 questions tanks your exam grade. put in the work and you'll be fine. i didn't pay attention to a single lecture and ending w an A-
Apr 17, 2026 · Historical comment
The course content is not hard, but the sheer amount of content is what makes this class difficult. There are a lot of small assignments, but they aren’t worth much so your grade is basically determine by how you do on exams. And overall, Professor DaCosta is a good lecturer.
Nov 18, 2025 · Historical comment
if you aren't a bio major DO NOT take this class
Nov 13, 2025 · Historical comment
Her tests will have SUPER SMALL DETAILS and even if you thought you knew the answer, the wording of the questions are MADE TO TRICK YOU no matter how well you know the material. Also the TAs are all useless and on a power trip for some reason when it comes to grading.
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2025
1 sectionFall 2024
1 sectionSummer 2024
4 sectionsSpring 2024
1 sectionFall 2023
1 sectionSummer 2023
2 sectionsSpring 2023
1 sectionFall 2022
1 sectionSummer 2022
2 sectionsSpring 2022
1 sectionFall 2021
1 sectionSummer 2021
1 section