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.

Amazing teacher. She always explained things very well and she was ALWAYS down to help. LOVED her. she really vouched for us at the end with covid-19. but LS 7A will destroy you if you're not ready for it. the content was hard and the exams were soul crushing... if you want to succeed in this class, review the learning objectives and make sure you can answer them. Tests require lots of critical thinking and complex thought. It is not regurgitation by any means. However, class is heavily padded with launchpad assignments and quizzes. Make sure you understand how the mechanism works (not the details) and you'll be gucci

I took this class to decide if I could major in a hard science; I learned that I cannot. Obviously, the material is very difficult, and you have to put a lot of work into LaunchPad for a good grade. However, Dr. Khankan was a great professor! Her lectures are fine- there's just a lot of participation. Take every extra credit opportunity, as you never really know how you're going to do one the exams until afterwards. There's 2 midterms, 1 final, but a lot of your points will come from LaunchPad, Clickr questions, and the worksheets you do in discussion. Make sure you do LaunchPad on time before every lecture, even if you just click through it and go back later. I had my discussions with Sean, who wasn't very helpful, but my LA was great. It's important to get 100% on every worksheet in discussion, but it usually wasn't too hard, since Sean went over each question before class ended, and usually there were smarter students enrolled that could help. Attendance and participation is very important, but Khankan allowed you to miss up to 2 lectures, since the points were out of a smaller amount than the max. I really appreciate Khankan now, (end of winter quarter 2020- Corona), as she and all other classes have allowed us to prorate our final scores, instead of taking it online at home. Even though this wasn't just her decision, she has been an extremely fair teacher, and went out of her way to help answer questions during lecture.

Dr. Khankan is an extremely energetic, helpful, and engaging professor. Her lectures are extremely interesting, as she explains clearly and always finds time to answer student questions and offer help. LS 7C was by far my favorite class within the LS 7 series, as it covered human physiology.
Dr. Khankan hosted review sessions before each exam, in which she would address student questions for multiple hours, which was extremely helpful. I would highly recommend taking LS 7C with Dr. K!

As for the LS 7C class itself, it was structured very similarly to the rest of the LS 7 series. Two midterms and one final exam, all on Canvas. The first midterm seemed quite difficult compared to the second midterm and the final exam. LS 7C is definitely the most difficult class in the LS 7 series, but I also found the content to be the most interesting and engaging. There is quite a lot of pre-class work in this class, as you are required to submit a reading guide before the first lecture of each week and answer various Achieve pre-class reading MCQs. These pre-class assignments tend to be quite tedious and long, and do not always seem particularly relevant to succeeding in the class itself.
Much like the rest of the LS 7 series, the exams test a deeper understanding of the concepts, rather than rote memorization. The best way to prepare is probably to understand all the diagrams/feedback loops in detail and review past PEQ/iClicker questions.

Overall, Dr. Khankan is a fantastic and engaging professor for LS 7C! The content of the LS 7C class itself is also very interesting, but the class is definitely challenging.

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

Contrary to many other comments, I would personally recommend against taking her lecture. She spends way too much time on elementary concepts and fails to allocate time to talk about more complex material. The lectures go very slowly, and the class is always behind. Almost feels like they cut out material at the end of the class because we were not able to finish.

Putting this on top of the already poorly designed 7 series courses, the class was very unpleasant to take in general.

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 !!!!!

Dr.Khankan is one of the best professors and lecturers at UCLA!!! I had her for 7A and decided to take her for 7C as well and she truly is very caring. She allows us to try the problems on our own and is a very engaging lecturer. However, I will say that the course, 7C, itself is definitely not easy since the material and the exams require a lot of critical thinking and require you to connect a lot of concepts and body systems/processes together. The exams are also a bit tricky with the amount of info they provide and how some things are worded, however, I felt pretty prepared from the exam due to AAP PLF sessions and reviewing the Clicker questions. This course is not at all memorization heavy which I saw a lot of classmates trying to do, they give you the diagrams and pictures in the exam but you just got to connect and critically think!! I personally really loved human physiology and this had to be my favorite course in the 7 series.

Although Dr. Khankhan is kind and willing to assist students even outside of class, the course itself is too rigorous with too many useless assignments and readings. The professors literally tell us not to take notes because we "won't use them" and instead tell us to use the reading guides, which aren't nearly as helpful, in fact they're useless, but mandatory. The homework problems and practice exams are unhelpful as well because they're nothing like the exam questions in the least. The lectures are very unhelpful, the exam questions are several paragraphs long each with very tricky wording. It's very disingenuous for professors (whose role is to guide and educate students) to try so hard to trick students into getting the wrong answer despite knowing the material well- you can ask any student who has taken the LS7 series and I guarantee you they will agree that the exams are the worst part of the courses. I hope this changes in the future as the LS7 series is supposed to be preparing students in the Life Sciences field, but instead seems to knock them down, forcing them to hate Biology and feel as though the countless hours they have spent mastering the material is nothing but a waste.