Easy class but long labs. Lecture is through pre recorded videos that are graded by correct response. There is an iclicker quiz when class begins and a post lab quiz online. Labs can take very long and tedious but they are not difficult as long as you follow the lab manual. You learn very basic lab techniques and go through different topics and experiments while writing 3 papers with the first 2 being only portions of a full paper and the 3rd being a full paper. These papers are graded by your peers and the professor and papers are graded rather generously.

The lectures and labs are a bit strange and feel really complicated if you don't read through the instructions step-by-step, but the labs are also super interesting and I feel like I learned a lot from them so that's always good. The recorded lectures are good to just get introduced to the material, but you almost always need to read the lab manuals during the labs. The final was pretty chill as well and the grading scheme is super forgiving to get a very easy A.

This class was not bad. I think the experiments themselves were interesting and the structure of the class is similar to any other 7 series class (extremely structured with buffer points). As other reviews have stated, it's a pretty chill class BUT there is a good amount of busy work. When people called it a free class, I assumed minimal effort would be required but that's not exactly true. You definitely need to put a good amount of effort but it doesn't have to be polished effort. Although it was nice to not have to stress to much about grades, the assignments were honestly tedious at times and annoying, but as long as you stay on top of it and do your work, you should be able to get an A. The final was also pretty relaxed and there is no midterm.

Easiest class I've taken here, except for the time there was a gas leak in the building and only our lab didn't evacuate and i got a bad headache- not cool man. Labs were long but easy, final was super easy I maybe studied 30 mins.

Easy A, asynchronous lectures, easy in-person labs!! TAs and LAs were amazing too! The only thing super annoying about this class is the amount of writing we had to do. There was always some type of writing due each week (peer reviews, parts of essays, rating feedback, etc.). It was usually pretty easy, but could be time-consuming, repetitive, very boring, and felt like busy work. Very easy to get an A as long as you completed all of the work -- nothing ever had to be perfect because of the amount of buffer points!!

pretty chill class. If you do all the pre and post lab work (not hard) and try on the writing assignments you will get an A. the final kinda sucked (weird questions and not enough time) but the labs were fun and enjoyable and the LAs give lots of help.

Honestly surprised by the amount of people who say the labs are boring, I found them to be interesting, informative, and thoughtfully set up. The professor is a very sweet guy and you can tell he put a lot of work into creating these labs for his students. The workload is very manageable and I think you'll learn skills that would be important for other classes/work in the field.

It's honestly a very easy class. They give so much buffer. The labs are quite fun! Unfortunately quite a few of our labs got moved online... but I did like the ones that we got to do in person. Pfluegl is very chill, although I feel bad for him when he sees how 50%+ of the class is either very confused and/or not paying attention and choosing random answers. He's the only prof that teaches 23L (or 7L as they say; the NeW nAmE) so you won't get to choose regardless haha. Just put in some effort, be nice to your peers, don't write trashy papers that make your peers' lives a million times harder, and have fun!

They were alright. Zoom lectures were a good review of the lab manual people were supposed to be reading. Pfluegl appeared distraught that half the students weren't paying attention, as indicated in people picking whatever they thought seemed decent in the Clickers, but otherwise questions should have been easy.

I did exceptionally bad on Clickers, but I still got an A due to generous grading. I also barely passed my individual exam threshold for a raw A, but all's right in the end.

I actually enjoyed the lab aspect of this class. Assuming you borrow a lab coat, a lot of the procedures taught, particularly the DNA stuff and structure of lab papers, are applicable to research settings and paired well when learning 7C material, though they don't have to be taken at the same time. My TA was wonderful and my LAs went around clarifying confusing concepts on the worksheets, which meant most of us painlessly earned all the points for our work. Good class, little work outside of it. Just don't forget to submit post-lab quizzes and do your paper according to the Perceptive guidelines and it's a breeze.

Pfluegl was okay, his lectures (on Zoom, but attendance was mandatory via iClicker) were pretty boring. Lectures just went over what the next week's lab was going to be, like the concepts and procedure. The labs were a nice intro to different lab techniques and they were overall pretty easy, especially if you read the lab manual ahead of time and understand what you're doing. There are 3 easy writing assignments throughout the quarter to get used to how to write a scientific paper; the first 2 are only half (first one is the first half of a typical scientific paper, second is the second half of a typical paper) to get used to each section, and then the 3rd puts them together. The final has a group phase and an individual phase, both of which were very easy.