This Cluster for being catered towards non-STEM majors IS NOT AN EASY GE. If you are a humanities major looking to get rid of your science GEs, you are much better off taking the Food Cluster. I wish I had made that choice and regret it daily. While the class is interesting to learn about, the quizzes are absurd in difficulty and have no curve. With my quiz grades going down each quiz (along with the class mean), it is certainly the quizzes that will make or break your grade. The grading scheme for this class is 20/20 for the quiz and final OR 30/10 for the quiz/final, depending on which you do better on.

Grade Breakdown:
Lab assignments / participation 25%
Writing Assignment 35%
Exams:
- Quizzes 20%/30%
- Final Exam 20%/10%

The writing assignment was basically effort-based (I got a 100%) and is staggered, which is nice and you will be getting TA review, peer review, and most importantly, utilize the Peer Writing Specialist they provide. For me, it was Linde, and she was amazing.
Additionally, the TAs are very much on our side in communicating our concerns about the quizzes being brutally difficult and many of the students not doing well due to not having enough practice problems or examples for the math questions/application questions.

The good thing about this class, though, is the grade boundaries will get shifted in your favor (basically rounding) cause my 92.53 was considered an A. I'm not sure about other people, but I believe it would be the same for them.

TLDR; I did not like that this class was so heavily weighed on doing well on the quizzes, but other than that it wasn't too bad, but I was crashing out about it quite often so do yourself a favor, and take the Food Cluster.

Literally my favorite class. If you have an interest in space and are a humanities major who wants science credit out of the way—take this cluster. All of the professors held ample office hours and for the most part TAs were really helpful with any questions too. Grading is super easy with the final only 10% so I definitely know people who failed the final and still got an A. There is the smallest bit of math so be aware but very manageable and this was definitely the better of the two quarters, very engaging, interesting, and most of the time understandable. Shout out to my favorite professor Erik Petigura

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Evolutions cluster is great! The professors are all extremely accomplished and passionate about the topics. The class does move quite fast, but the cluster system is great about helping new students and guiding them through navigating not only tough classes, but UCLA as a whole. The workload of the class is pretty manageable, just a lot of readings, although the readings are useful!

The cluster was interesting but I got an A- because of the final paper. My advice would be to use office hours religiously, it greatly helps. The workload for this class is very manageable if you stay on top of your assignments and the scoring of the participation grade is based on weekly labs which you will be guided through by your TA.