Fluitt is a beautiful smart young woman! It's really not hard to get an A in the class if you study the key points she makes in her lecture slides. She also provides extra credit that factors into your homework grade. I really liked that the exams were not cumulative, so if you messed up on one of the midterms it was fine because you weren't tested on it on the next exam. Discussion is also free points; you get credit just by sitting there and signing in. Overall I'm so glad I chose to take LS 3 with Amy Fluitt. I'll miss her.

This class was an interesting experience. Fluitt is friendly, makes the class fun, and the material is interesting, but no matter how much studying I did, come time for the test and all the learning went out the window. She says that the tests aren't designed to be tricky, but they definitely feel that way; entire sets of questions around the same concept can be poorly worded, and don't expect the TAs to help because they either don't get it themselves or will refuse to say anything like monks on an oath of silence. When I later asked about the questions I got wrong and explained my thought process, they explained how it was actually supposed to be interpreted in this way and that's why I was wrong. That's what makes me angry about it. It seems like a lot of people just got what she was trying to say during the test, but I felt that the difference between 1 hour of studying and 15 hours was negligible because questions would be reliably confusing, especially on the final, which did have a nice curve. The experience was mostly good, but the tests somewhat spoiled the class.

Mixed feelings about this class/professor. Fluitt was an extremely fast lecturer and it was very hard for me to follow since I didn't have much background in this field of molecular biology. I found myself relistening/rewatching every lecture but this was made extremely difficult by UCLA having changed their system from Bruincast to podcasts on CCLE that barely worked where I lived. The system was very faulty/unreliable and this made rewatching/listening to lectures even harder. I blame UCLA in this department. However, even after watching I found myself behind others on the content. Some people were just better at listening and absorbing in class but there was so much new content that I found myself trying to understand one topic and then becoming lost the rest of the lecture because I missed what she said after. If you're anything like me, I would suggest you not to take it with Fluitt. Discussion was helpful because the TAs/LAs were always lending a hand if you needed it with the worksheets. I found myself coming out of the exams feeling like I did alright but when I saw my scores, I was disappointed. The class average on exams were abotu 83-85% which is pretty high.

Don't skip the textbook reading even if you're tempted to, the diagrams Professor Fluitt uses in her slides are the same ones as the textbook, and the figure descriptions in the book are really helpful to understand the concepts. She is very helpful during office hours, and Ann's review sessions + the LA review sessions helped a lot for explaining the concepts clearly.

It's very hard to keep up with her talking speed in lecture so that you don't miss anything, but don't worry if you don't catch everything. I never went back to bruincast the lectures, I just went through the powerpoints, readings, clicker questions, and launchpad quizzes and it was enough to do very well in the class.

This class required nothing more than her lectures. My recommendation is to watch every single lecture before every test on bruin cast, and make sure you understand everything conceptually. Her tests never ask anything more than what she has taught, and they are not tricky if you understood the material conceptually, rather than just memorization. I never read one single thing on launchpad, never went to office hours, and never read the textbook. YOU DO NOT NEED OUTSIDE MATERIAL FOR THIS CLASS. Her lectures are the sole thing that her tests are based off of. However, she is not easy to follow during class, since she talks pretty fast and academically and tbh just bored me. So I literally did not pay attention during any class. She will copy launchpad questions and discussion questions and clicker questions into her homework. I would never look at the worksheets or launchpad quizzes answers until right before the midterms. Basically everything will make sense once you watch the lecture videos (never paid attention during class or discussion) and make sure to understand everything, pausing when things don't make sense and looking at all the diagrams to understand everything. Honestly, her tests are really good. They aren't tricky, and are just like her clicker questions. They aren't simple but aren't tricky. She doesn't ever test on things she didn't cover and doesn't test on rote memorization. I did very well in this class because I took the time to understand the material, and all I really had to do was watch the videos. Started studying about 2-3 days before tests, and all I did was watch every lecture (literally learned the material for the first time right before tests), read the solutions for the discussion wkshts & launchpad quizzes, & go through all the slides to make sure everything makes sense. Very straightforward class. Good luck!

Overall, during lecture I thought that she did a great job at not only simplifying some of the complicated material, but she does a lot of concept review! I've never had a professor more approachable and compassionate about alleviating confusion. Honestly , I was dreading LS3 because of how much information I was told we had to memorize. However, the way Fluitt's class is set up, you learn enough throughout the quarter that when it comes to studying a lot of the information comes pretty easily! As long as you are an active participant in discussion and lecture (aka take notes, fill out the worksheets, try to do clickers etc.) you will have PLENTY to study from and the material should not be that foreign. Additionally, Fluitt uses learning assistants which completely changed the way I thought about pre-requisites at UCLA because their entire purpose is to help you learn and they're available at pretty much any point throughout the week via piazza or office hours. It's pretty clear that her goal is to help you learn and do well in the class, especially with all of the opportunities she gives for office hours and practice with supplementary material.

Professor Fluitt is a wonderful teacher. Even though the class can be very open-ended and at times difficult, she is always willing to guide you through your thought process and thoroughly answer any questions. Lectures always took interesting turns, and the focus was always on discovery and building connections with other classes or lectures rather than plowing through material. All in all, she led a very collaborative learning environment. I gained a deep appreciation for the research process through this class. She gives multiple avenues for participation which shouldn't be too hard if you engage in and/or out of the class (which you should to make the most out of the class!). psst: She also cute pet cats if you go to office hours!

I really loved this class. It was hard at times, but you can tell she puts a lot of work into her lectures to make everything as understandable as possible. There's 6 assignments total; 2 are really small, just reflecting on a presentation you just saw, but 4 require a pretty in-depth understanding of the research and everything she talks about in lecture (nothing you can just google). She's really helpful, and in my experience always has really good answers for the questions you ask.

Dr. Fluitt is one of the most passionate and caring profs I've ever met. Made class super enjoyable and kept us engaged, and she also genuinely cares about students and wants to see us do well (went out of her way to arrange extra office hours and re-explain subject material in class). 5HA isn't necessarily an easy A, you definitely do have to put work in, but with the resources and support Dr. Fluitt provides as well as the manageable workload you can do well in this class!

This was one of my favorite classes. Professor Fluitt is honestly so nice and caring and on top of that, so passionate about teaching and the learning process. She was always very helpful and never made you feel dumb for not knowing something. If you're trying, she sees it and is always thorough with explaining where things went wrong. What I also liked was how approachable she is. She makes you feel comfortable to clarify anything. Also, she knows what she is doing. I learned a lot from this class and Professor Fluitt made it very enjoyable for me. This was the perfect course for prepping for the minor.