This class was a super great GE! I found his lectures easy to follow and interesting. His passion for the subject makes it super rewarding to go to class. The only thing I would caution about is the labs, which were 2 hours sessions every week. Since COVID was still pretty rampant, attendance wasn't mandatory but the labs themselves took a long time to do and sometimes had difficult questions. However, all the exams were very fair and related to his unit goals that he would put on his slides. I enjoyed the Popular Science Book Presentation because there was a lot of flexibility in the topics you could choose for your book, as long as it related to earth science in some way. Classes were in person but also on zoom and recorded, and he made the exams online for simplicity with COVID. My major is not related to Earth Science at all but I really enjoyed the subject and would take more classes with him and within the major!

Dr. Coffey is one of the best professors I have ever has! He is really personable, explains things really well, and is always willing to answer questions from students. He did a great job at making this class the best it can be with it being on zoom. I took this class for fun and it was not very much work and was very interesting! Would highly recommend.

This was my favorite class that I took during this quarter!!! I'm a philosophy and gender studies double major, but have always had an interest in EPSS and i'm so thankful to have experienced my first EPSS class with Professor Coffey. He is very kind, funny, and made the course content so much more interesting and engaging than i would have imagined, especially given the circumstances of remote learning. For me, his teaching was accessible and easy to follow. It is obvious that he is very passionate and knowledgable about his field and I am thankful for the positive impact that he has made on me as a student and person

I absolutely loved this professor and this class. Prof. Coffey is a fantastic lecturer and often had me laughing with his puns and cute videos. The lectures were easy to understand and there was no reading, but he does require regular homework assignments. The labs were sometimes a bit tedious and long, which is pretty standard, and we didn't receive any feedback on the questions we missed or why we missed them (which ultimately comes down to the TA). However, I found the tests pretty easy if you studied and took good notes. Overall, a super fun class where I learned a lot and would definitely take again!

Though this class was a major requirement (so I really had no choice), if I could go back, I'd take it again and again. Kevin is an extremely passionate, outgoing person and both of these attributes made his lectures extremely entertaining.

The workload of the course was extremely light: There were weekly lab assignments for the first 7 weeks which often only took 1 hour out of the 2 hour lab time to complete; 4 total homework assignments which often only involved looking at Google Earth, watching short videos, and answering multiple-choice questions; a quarter-long project in which you chose a popular science book to read and present to your lab section in the final week; and of course two midterms and a final exam (all of which were entirely MCQ).

The course content was, in my opinion, very fascinating as we sruveyed numerous earth-science related subjects without getting bogged down in the nitty gritty.

If you have the oppurtunity to take this class with Kevin, I would HIGHLY recommend!

This has been one of the most enjoyable classes I've taken at UCLA. Professor Coffey is awesome, and his lectures are funny and engaging. Tests are super fair, and he gives fair homework assignments with reasonable deadlines. This class literally kept me going through this absolute nightmare of a quarter, so major props to him for that. If you have the opportunity to take this class (even just for fun like I did), I highly encourage you to take it! Not very difficult if you put in enough effort (which is a medium amount, not a ton).

Love Coffey! Took this class as recommended by many friends and I can see why. Prof is super engaging, even over zoom, and anytime I had a question, he'd be able to answer right then and there. Exams are not too hard, with the second midterm being much easier than the first. However, he does not want you to use your notes during exams, and study his goals to make sure you can do your best. The exams are not weighted too heavily though, so don't worry too much.

Lab over zoom was meh, but my TA Marina was great! While trying to be accomadating with Google Earth, she allowed us to work off a single screen in breakout rooms and always answered any questions we struggled with. Lab wasn't too hard anyways, just technical difficulties.

Overall loved this class and if it wasn't for chemistry and physics, I'd definitely major in Earth Science for my guy Kevin. Also he kinda cute or is it just me <3 sorry for being a whore

Dr. Coffey is a very fun and engaging professor. His lectures are entertaining, and he does his best to try to make the material understandable by using real world examples, personal anecdotes, etc.
The workload is very light, and typically no work needs to be done outside of the weekly lab sections.
Exams are generally very fair and based directly off of lecture slides, though he does like to throw in trick questions.
Overall great professor.

Coffey is a really great professor I enjoyed this class a lot!! Despite things being online he tried his best to make it engaging for us and you can tell that he’s really passionate about the material. The two midterms and final were fairly easy as long as you studied the ‘goals for this unit’ that he posted with every slide show. I recommend answering them after every lecture so you don’t fall behind and that way before the exams you can study them rather than have to rewatch every lecture searching for the answers. Lab got pretty boring and tedious, but on the bright side you got to work with other students and most of the time you can finish the work in the lab time. My TA was Marina and she was really nice and organized, plus she was always willing to help if you asked. Overall, I would definitely recommend this class, workload is pretty light and the material was fun :)

I loved this professor! You can really tell he is passionate about what he teaches. Even though everything was online, he managed to make class engaging.