This was my favorite class at UCLA. First, it's a really easy class. Not only easy for phy sci, but compared to any class on campus, even for north campus. So if you are a phy sci major make sure you take this as one of your electives. There's one multiple choice midterm, a diet self assessment plan, and a final exam thats free response. The course uses a reader thats about a hundred pages. The lectures are really enjoyable and the professor even tells you to just listen. You learn a lot about nutrition and how to eat healthy. The exams are based on the reader which you can just study the night before. There is a sign in sheet every class.

This has honestly been the easiest physci elective I have taken so far. The old grade distributions are not reflective of the current easiness of the course. The TA runs the graded component of the course and she emphasizes that the course is not meant to be difficult so that you can actually learn. She provides practice questions for the midterm and final which almost mirror the questions on the actual exam. It was easy to get an A+ on both exams just by studying the night before. Attendance is extra credit which goes towards a curve of your grade at the end of the quarter. Additionally, there is one easy paper. I honestly wish all physci electives were like nutrition.

This has been the easiest physci elective I have taken as of yet. The old grade distributions are not reflective of the easiness of the current course. The TA gives you practice questions for the midterm and final which almost mirror the actual exam questions. Attendance counts as extra credit for a curve at the end of the quarter. There is also a very easy paper near the end of the quarter. Both exams were easy to score A+ on with only studying the night before.

This class is ok. Nothing much has changed from the previous reviews. The textbook we get our information from is repetitive and extremely complex in some parts but glosses over key concepts in others. Professor Heber's lectures are similar because he will make his lecture slides close to 80-100 slides per session full of graphs and repeating material. I took this class during Covid-19, so the tests and assignments were all in open-book online essay format, which might be the only reason why I did well. Overall, the concepts of material itself is straightforward and fun, but there are many details we are expected to know, it's more like we're memorizing the textbook. This class could be fun if you truly cared about nutrition and research on nutrition and are willing to devote hours to memorizing and understanding the molecular basis of every single component that we consume- Professor Heber is definitely very knowledgeable. But to everyone else, it's a pretty time-consuming, albeit boring class that'll get you an ok grade.

This class was both easy and hard. It was easy in that it’s low time commitment, you only have one midterm and one easy two page paper, and the exams are all multiple choice. It was hard because you really had to know so many details. It’s not enough to know general concepts, you have to remember details about the concepts. It’s annoying that they don’t post slides and they don’t bruincast the class. I think this class was curved upward though because by the end of the quarter I had an 88% and I got an A minus. The paper is easy to get full credit, just follow all the guidelines.

Took this class Winter 2013 after hearing it was a ridiculously easy class. Learned that it is only "easy" because minimal work is involved and attendance is not necessary, but the tests themselves are fairly tricky. Yes, the material is straightfoward, all you do is read the course reader but it contains a lot of details and I found his tests to focus on very small subtleties in the text. While lectures are entertaining, if you wanted to actually improve your grade the lectures themselves are not really helpful since he does not test on the lecture material! So unless you memorize every single little word, number, and detail in the course reader, the class is actually annoyingly tricky and unorganized.

Had Professor Heber for physci 167 during winter 2013 as a biochem major.

If you did well in your other premed classes, you're probably really good at memorizing. That's what this class is: memorizing the course reader. One midterm, one 2 page written assignment, and one final determines your grade. There is no curve, but the grading scale for the class is lowered (>89.5% is an A).

If you actually attend the lectures, you'll learn something useful. Pretty interesting material, but most people didn't attend despite the "mandatory attendance" that was just a sign in sheet being passed around at most lectures.

Haven't finished the course yet, but so far, really easy class if you are a phy sci major. It's tends to be a pretty large class (>200 people), since a lot of people have heard it's easy (but from my experience, non-majors don't seem to sing the same song, so just be wary). I'm probably only an "average" student in the phy sci major, and yet I was still able to pull an A on the midterm, after only having studied at ten the night before the exam. I went to most of the lectures, because they take attendance, but barely ever took notes. If you've taken most of your phy sci core classes, you've learned most of this course's material before. There are only four components to your grade (attendance, midterm, self-assessment paper, final), and both exams are multiple choice. Overall, easy class if you're in the major. If you're not, don't be so easily convinced that it's necessarily one of the "easiest" upper divs.

I really enjoyed taking this class! I feel this class is exactly how a college course should be structured. Attendance is not mandatory and they don't give you bullshit assignments to waste your time. If you are truely interested in learning this material you will read the course reader and do well. This is definetely one of the easiest classes i have taken at UCLA, probably because Dr. Heber is an amazing lecturer and the material is so straight forward. I showed up to all of the lectures, because i really enjoyed the material. I definetely recommend this class to anyone going into the medical field.

Who said this class is easy? This class is a lot of memorizing and understanding of the course reader. It is hard to study this all in one night before the midterm and final. Also this class is straight scale so you really can't miss many questions. After taking this class I will never take another upper division biology class at UCLA again.