This class is essentially an A on a silver platter, but you're gonna despise nearly every moment of it. Labs are extremely easy, just follow the worksheet, but annoying if you don't like your group. The research paper was a nuisance to complete but not hard. Also I fell asleep during every single lecture so I can't comment on Pfleugl himself. Both the midterm and the final are pretty easy as long as you grasp basic concepts and go back to look through the slides to get certain questions right. LS 23L is just another requirement but not a difficult one at all.

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.

Super easy yet boring class. Labs are kinda wasting time.

Clear learning opportunities.

Review:
Prof: What’s more to say about Pflugel? Everyone has always wondered whether this person actually exists. The lectures very very slow (and mandatory now), but everything is pretty much determined by your TA and what happens in your class is done in your lab. Just show up to lecture read the lab manual during the class preferably before the lecture to make sure you know what’s going on to a certain extent, but they explain most of it during the lab so don’t worry too much about it. I suggest reading the lab manual and trying to understand the concepts because then you’ll do less studying for the final. For the final, really try to understand the major concepts in each of the labs. A lot of the questions were in the lab manual or stated in lecture. So understand the reasoning behind why you are doing what you are doing.

Class: The class is an overall fun class. It’s really laid back with a lot of quizzes (prelab, inlab, postlab). Some of the labs are really fun some of them are very tedious. Most of the work you do will be in the lab. There will be scientific writing assignments you have during the duration of the quarter. They are a lot easier than you think so don’t be too intimidated by them. Just try your best to learn the content, not just for a grade, after all that’s why you are at university. Do that and you should get an A.