I am so conflicted about this class. Nobody cares about me like Dr. Pfluegl does. Even though there are 500+ students in this class, he takes the time to send personalized weekly progress reports to all of the students. However, there is so much busy work. And you'll probably get accused of plagiarism at least once. NBD though. Anyway, easy A as long as you keep up with all the assignments.

This is the one class I have taken where I personally feel the information went right into my left ear and right out the right ear. Most of the techniques in this class don't seem fully useful, except for the basics. The rest of the class is a lot of easy busy work. However, it is good in the sense that you won't have to worry about your grade because as long as you keep up with the pace of the work, you should have an easy A.

This class is an easy A. Straight up. Literally, just complete the work and you will do fantastic. The class is very intimidating on the first day because it looks like there is an overwhelming amount of work; however it is not much at all. The checklists on CCLE are extremely useful and are the key to success in this class. Plain and simple: do the minimal amount of work, get an A.

As long as you do all the assignments, you will get a good grade in the class. It may seem overwhelming at first due to the organization of the assignments on ccle, but the assignments are manageable to do. The final is also not too difficult, and the professor is very accommodating.

Honestly, Dr. Pfluegl does an amazing job when teaching this class. It was so easy to understand everything because he had a clear explanation and the ccle site was super organized.

Although this class was only three units, it felt like the workload was more than the workload for my 5 unit classes. The labs covered were VERY interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed them even though the class was completely online and it was quite useless to do the labs virtually because it defeats the purpose. I would've enjoyed the content more if I actually had time to understand it There were a lot of pre-class videos and papers to read (lab manuals were sometimes 20+ pages). The labs/discussions were interesting and there was a worksheet for each week. The lectures are recorded and were very repetitive at times.

Now, the real nightmare: the peer review system. The three writing assignments weren't too hard to complete and I finished each in less than a day but the peer review system took A LOT of time. You were assigned 6 other papers to read and review against many criteria and this took me more time to complete than the actual papers. You were also graded on how accurately you graded other people's papers which seems quite unfair given that we all grade differently.

The content wasn't hard and it was actually interesting but there was just A LOT of things to do each week: Pre-lab videos and readings, virtual labs, virtual lab quiz, pre-lab quiz, lab worksheet, lab group slide, post-lab quiz, 3 writing assignments in the quarter and 6 peer reviews for each writing assignment + a group video project and final.

This part did NOT make sense. Around week 10, there was a 2000 word final writing assignment due + the 6 peer reviews that came with it, a final group video project in lab and a final. It felt like there were 3 finals because of the workload.

This class was one of the easiest class I've taken at UCLA. You actually need to try to fail this class. The work he gives us was pretty easy, but for a 3 unit class, it definitely felt like a lot.

The labs were meh. Not really interesting, but you can just cruise through them. I never went to his lectures and was fine for this class. He spent half the time of the lecture talking about COVID trends and our mood for the day lmao.

The essays are just busywork but so easy to do well on. He gives the exact rubric that we all peer-review with each other, and your grade for the essay is basically if you did the things on the rubric. (Ex. Did they put a concise title? If yes, give them full points in this category).

The final was relatively easy. As long as you pay a little attention to what's going on in lab, you will be fine for the finals. Honestly, this class doesn't really prepare you that well for any kind of Life Science research you may pursue in the future, but it's an easy A.

The expectations for this class are very clearly outlined, and like the rest of the LS 7 series it asks that you learn the material at home with videos and quizzes before coming into lab. This makes things very convenient and it simplifies getting an easy A because there's a big safety net and you can redo some of the assignments to get full points, but the recorded lectures are not particularly engaging. Most of the material is review from 7A-C, the only real new stuff is just specifics about the reagents or equipment used in the lab section. The lab section is mildly fun some of the time, but the vast majority of the time my group spent waiting with not much to do, which was made worse because you aren't allowed to leave until every group finishes and some TAs don't even let you leave early. All of the writing assignments are super easy so getting an A in this class is basically a given as long as you do the work, but it will be a long and boring 10 weeks.

it was a good class overall, much easier compared to the LS7 series. it consists of 3 lab reports, 3 peer review sessions, pre/post-lab quizzes that are easy, lab sessions where you work with your group, and a short final. the final was so easy compared to the LS7 series finals, honestly a breath of fresh air. the labs are straightforward and the TAs are helpful. i was very lazy with the work for the class but the grading is very forgiving so even I got a B. honestly take this class and don't be intimidated by the first lecture or first class, it sounds like a lot more work than it really is.

Most of the things we learned, I already knew, so the course wasn't particularly super conducive to my learning, but it was perfectly fine for someone who has never had lab experience. Shoutout to TA Halle who was great and super clear on procedures for all of the labs!