The life science sequence sucks overall. I took this class during the summer and it was much more fast paced, but Professor Kane was accommodating and recorded all her lectures. Of course, you still had to attend these lectures for iClicker questions. I enjoyed discussion sections where you worked on lab sheets that would ultimately culminate in a group project and presentation at the end of the quarter. Although it was a big chunk of your grade, show up and you will receive the passing points. The exams are tricky so I would refer to old iClicker questions and any old exams that you can get your hands on. First, you take the group midterms together and these were usually high in scores. I had my best experience in the life science course sequence with Professor Kane and would definitely recommend her for summer classes. Devote yourself to the material, skim the readings, and practice a lot. You can pass with an A.

I'm not entirely sure why the other review rated Dr. Kane as all 1s, I suspect they wanted people to think she was a bad teacher so that others wouldn't take this class. But, EEB101 is easily the most fun, interactive, and interesting class I've taken at UCLA. And Tonya (she lets you call her by her first name) is easily one of the funniest, down-to-earth, and understanding professors. The subject of this class is algae which may seem boring, but it is actually interesting. The first half of the quarter has lectures as usual, a midterm (which we were given a one sided note sheet), and labs which go over the basics of the skills we need for the second half. The second half (which is definitely the more fun half) is more involved. In this class, students take an overnight field trip to Cambria at a UC Reserve right by the ocean. This is for field work and so we spent maybe 2 hours collecting algal specimens. After that, students pretty much chill for the rest of the time, there is even a bonfire and smores! In my quarter, we did not have to pay for the field trip, but that may change for future classes, but it is still honestly worth it. In lab for the second half, you work on identifying algal species and pressing them onto herbarium papers (which you can keep later on). This class also has a lot of teamwork and you will get to know pretty much everyone in your lab and your TA pretty well. Our final exam was online which was so nice of Dr. Kane. The only thing that may be tough is that the lab notebook portion of the class can take some time, but honestly if you keep up with it and work on it consistently throughout the quarter, you will be fine. You may also need to carve out some time outside of class to go algae collecting on your own since we needed to collect 14 different species. Truly the best class I've taken and I would take it again!

I really like professor kane but she is not a good teacher. I went to her office hours, to every problem solving session, and made sure I understood her lectures as well as I could but the exams did not reflect what she taught. Her lectures were lazy and unhelpful. On the last day instead of reviewing for the final like other teachers she showed us random videos of crabs and fish instead. I watched other professors lectures like Professor Burton and they lectured about the class way better than she did. Also you arent allowed to see your exams but that for the whole 7B

This class does what my old community college professors called "reverse teaching." Basically, you have to teach yourself the material before lecture and lectures are just an iclicker quiz to try to reinforce whatever you learned. This may work for some, but for me this method was not enjoyable. I did not take notes during lecture AT ALL. All my notes were based off independent readings I did from the textbook.

Lecture and Lab were very engaging. The activities were incredibly useful and taught skills that were VERY IMPORTANT on the exams. iClicker and attendance were mandatory.

Grading is very forgiving, with you being able to miss multiple assignments/couple of days and still receive full credit. Exams are rather rough. You are given plenty of time however the questions may get very convoluted and are kind of built to trick you. However, if there is an unprecedented number of incorrect answers the question may be nulled entirely which is really forgiving on Professor Kane's part. I had Erika as my TA and she was incredibly helpful. Take advantage of problem solving sessions if offered, and utilize the practice midterms/finals/clickers they give you. An A is achievable but not easy.

Great upper division EEB course. Kane is a wonderful professor and kind lady, I can not wait to take another course with her. Do not miss out on taking this class!

I took this class with Katie Hannibal and I could not in good faith recommend it to anyone. The most frustrating part of the class was the unclear instructions from the TA regarding the labs and the final project. I visited office hours multiple times to clarify what I would need to do when submitting assignments and get a better grade, but when it came to grading I would get marked off of what I was told to do during office hours. Regarding grading, in a six-week session, we would get our labs back two weeks after we submitted them, however, there were multiple times when something would be taught in week 4 for example but we'd get marked off in our week two lab when we did not even learn the material yet.

This was a horrible class. Please avoid the TA Katie Hannibal if you can. She has been the worst TA that I have had and is extremely condescending if you ask her for anything (like she wont give you feedback or help bc doing her job is hard). The course is graded off of 5 labs and a final project, each worth a large percentage of your grade. The average for these labs was about a 70%. Our TA would take off points for anything from wrong color font, to adding too much detail. She graded our week 2 lab in week 5 but then was upset you didn't incorporate the previous feedback. She would also randomly skip lab sessions without notifying us. The professor then defended the TA when the concerns were brought up by many people and then explained that "we just don't think you can keep up with the expectations from before covid." implying that we were incompetent, when the points taken off were not outlined in the syllabus. The grading was so entirely arbitrary, which was the most disheartening part. I respect and liked Kane as a professor for 109, but she did not have the time to dedicate to 109L. This was shown by the zero office hours offered by the prof, and the TA, and the complete refusal to answer emails. Please avoid taking this class over the summer, but especially avoid katie:)

First, I don't know if it was just for my quarter but bruincast wasn't set up in the room so the "recorded lectures" ended up being podcasts which made it super hard to follow. The professor herself is mid. We fell behind a couple of times because of the amount of clicker questions she would ask in lectures. There were a lot! It was honestly annoying. We also had Dr. Pires be a guest lecturer for us a couple of times and she went through our whole week's worth of slides in just one day which is saying something about the pace of Kane. She also provides practice questions before the midterm and final but no answer keys. They expect you to colloborate with others which was super annoying. The professor doesn't explain things as well as Pires did so if you have the choice, definitely take it with Pires. People tended to do worse on midterm 1 than 2 so don't feel too bad if you don't get a good grade. Overall 7B wasn't too bad.

Coming from LS7A. This class was a bit clearer than the previous, and this has to do with both the condensed number of assignments (1 vs 2 reading guides per week, but same number and structure of weekly quizzes) and this professor's more straightforward teaching style. I really appreciated how accessible this professor was - her office hours were right before or after class, and she was patient enough to draw out some diagrams and explain some ideas I wasn't familiar with when I asked her about my confusions. Her frank walkthroughs of how to read graphs on the slides and how to do PEQs also helped greatly on the exam.