Professor Khankan is a good professor, She cares about students and is quite engaging. Every professor basically has the same tests for the LS7 series so don't bother trying to find a professor who is "easier", I think its all about how interesting they are and how well you learn from them.
All in all Khankan is a great Professor and always loves to talk to students and offer help.

Professor Khankan is a great and engaging lecturer. This is most evident when our lecturer switched near the end of the course; you truly realize how interesting she can make a long 1hr 15min lecture be in comparison to others. The lecture slides aren't very content heavy, and I didn't bother taking notes over them. The most effective method I found is to thoroughly read and take notes over the Launchpad readings before lecture, and have the lecture serve as a content review. Professor Khankan's lecturing is very clear, well organized, and engaging.

While I have the same complaints about wording and typos on exams, since the department and not the professor makes the exams this is essentially out of her control. However, the exams are still fair, and everything we have been tested over has been covered in either Launchpad readings or in class. I had no problem with time on the exams as well. There is a lot of content covered in one quarter, so I highly recommend that you stay on top of things and not fall behind.

You can tell that Professor Khankan cares greatly about student learning. She holds office hours four times a week, three of them are content office hours and one is for non-content office hours which is a great opportunity to chat with her and get to know her. During office hours she answers any and all questions very thoroughly and clearly to her best ability. Overall the LS7A class may have some flaws, but I highly recommend you choose her as your professor if you get the chance.

I feel mixed leaving a review since I really wish I could rate Dr. Khankan separately from the standardized curriculum of LS7A. As far as Dr. K is concerned, I absolutely loved her as a professor. She is very fair, understanding, easy to approach, and an extremely engaging professor. Her lectures serve more as a review of what you cover in the textbook, as per the flipped classroom curriculum, but I found it a bit difficult to take any meaningful notes on paper because she moves super quickly. I definitely recommend downloading the lecture slides and annotating them. Attendance is taken through iClicker. I found a pdf of the textbook and just bought the iClicker separately since achieve is not a requirement.

If you're used to a lot of structure in your classes, I definitely recommend this class as a first quarter course because it holds you accountable right away instead of realizing how behind you are once the first midterm rolls around. The workload is manageable, and I spent probably 8 hours tops on work every week outside of studying for midterms and finals.

As far as the actual standardized class goes, I'm not a fan. I dislike the note guides because I like taking my own notes, so I ended up doing notes twice. The exam questions test you more on how well you understand the questions than the actual material. The professors as a whole often do not fix mistakes on the grounds that they offer extra credit, so it shouldn't matter. There's a large section of the class that focuses on "growth mindset" and "interior locus of control", which is quite tedious after you finish the first set of reflections. This is the only class I took where I felt like I had busy work.

TL;DR if you have to take this class as a major rec, I definitely recommend Dr. Khankan. If you aren't a life science major and/or do not need this class, I'd skip it if you aren't good at mcq tests and don't like a super structured class with a lot of small assignments.

Really easy class. Khankan is super clear about everything and if you use the resources she gives you you’ll easily get an A. I didn’t do any launchpad readings or go to any extra office hours. All you do is the day before the final, review all the clicker questions discussion sheets and the practice exam questions. Understand exactly why the answer is the best choice and none of the other answers are correct and you should be good to go.

The professor is amazing. Everyone recommends Dr. Malloy / Dr. B, and they are great as well. Dr. Khankan is just as great in terms of willingness to help students and is also very engaging in lecture, if not better.

LS7A is a course that's exactly the same no matter who your teacher is, so honestly who you take it with doesn't matter beyond which professor you vibe with. All homework / tests is exactly the same across everyone, and it's honestly a lot of work. You get out of the course what you put into it - ie, you get a better grade if u did all the homework/readings than if you didn't.

You DO need an iclicker APP - don't get the physical remote you don't need that. You just need the app but just wait until you get the syllabus (week 0) before you buy anything. Book is Biology How Life Works 11th edition by Morris.

MY ISSUES: the midterms/final. They are called AOLs and they are the absolute worst. A lot of them are worded so vaguely and so many questions are literally wrong. But I suppose the TA strike might have affected this. You can still manage to get an A on the tests if you learn to think like the professors and you read through the iclicker questions and make practice questions for yourself. There's a group portion on tests too that lets you work with an assigned group of people on the exact same question set, so that's also nice to your grades.

Our final was a disaster; at the time I'm writing this 900 people signed a petition for a curve but that's a different story.

Learning from Professor Khankan was absolutely wonderful, and I am grateful for all the knowledge I gained in this class. The tests were slightly hard, but the content was fun as it was all related to human biology.

Okay, honest review time... This class is the HARDEST class I have taken at UCLA and I am so grateful I got it over with. The material itself is not that hard to learn (except the week on osmolarity ew). The workload is a lot because of Launchpad so I would recommend taking easy classes alongside it. The exams are AWFUL (there is a special place in hell for the people who write them). Everyone (including me) failed the first midterm with a D average, so prepare yourself. They will literally say "this part of the body is working abnormally" and from there you are magically supposed to know if it now produces more or less of something???? But honestly, to do well I would say know every diagram given in CLC, lecture, launchpad, and the handouts. SERIOUSLY KNOW THE DIAGRAMS ON THE HANDOUTS, THEY WILL BE ON THE EXAM. And do not let this class become something you dread (like I did) because it really prevented me from doing my best. And, duh, do the extra credit. One day we should all revolt against the LS 7 series !!!!!

Professor Khankan is the MOST fantastic LS professor without doubts. She is super clear with everything. The class is super engaging and efficient. She is patient with every question. The class sometimes popped up extended knowledge, which is very interesting. Best Experience Ever!!!!

Khankan is the best professor to take an LS series class with. She has taught the LS core classes for many quarters so she has a very in depth understanding of the material and what will be asked on the exams. She is also very approachable, passionate about the material she is teaching, and will answer any question about the material no matter how simple or straightforward (so don't be afraid to ask questions!!) I highly highly recommend to attend her office hours which are extremely helpful!! Even if you don't have any questions, she clear up confusing concepts and test students with example (very realistic) exam questions.

Dr. Khankan is a great teacher. She's very knowledgeable, clear, and helpful during her lectures and office hours. I would highly recommend taking LS 7A with her. She's also very good at explaining clicker questions. For me, I would take notes for every launchpad but some students don't and just click through. I'm not sure how you can retain information without taking notes. Also, the CLC sessions are pretty helpful so try to go to those. Discussion sections are just worksheets but help you master the content. Honestly, everything designed in the LS series curriculum is pretty well done except for the fact that there is a lack of practice exams and problems. I know that there are clicker questions but it would help if they gave everyone a practice exam so students know what the format of the exam is going to be like because you kind of feel blindsided your first midterm. Just know that it is more application than memorization in the course and that this is a weeder class so some of the questions aren't even testing your knowledge but just whether or not you see what they are trying to test. So don't be discouraged even if your first midterm grade is low. And also, don't go to the TA Sean's office hours - his attitude is super standoffish and asking him for explanations of midterm problems made it seem like him doing the students a favor. He literally told me, "I don't know. I didn't look at the midterm beforehand. I don't know" and also, "if it's a true false question, then why are you asking me, you already have the answer". He was jsut not helpful at all and instead made the review process that much more negative. Sorry if you have him as a TA