Would highly recommend if you need a GE !! You're almost guaranteed an A if you do make an effort.
Highly recommend my TA Ingrid (she held office hours till 11pm the night before the final project was due lol). This class comes with a cumulative grading method with a total of 500 points. Do not miss the small 3-point quizzes that comes after every lecture (if you keep missing them the points will pile up). Also be careful when taking the midterm/final because every question is worth 4 points. These are parts where most of my points are taken off.

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While this class was hard, Dr. Esdin I think saved it. I did not take him for 7C, but he presented the material in that way, and his midterm for modules three and four were very fair. The way he talked through his lectures was very engaging, and I enjoyed going to his lectures. His material is the largest section of the class, and he has the most critiques for his section. Sometimes he would get behind on material, causing the papers to be even harder than they needed to be since we wouldn't have any background information. Otherwise, I would take this class again!

Professor Esdin is a good lecturer I won't lie and this class wasn't the worse considering it was a 6 unit course with a LONG lab section but it was sometimes annoying. The good thing about this class was that it was a review of LS7C since it was mainly the physiology of mammals but there is a LOT of material you'd have to deal with. It's not abruptly hard but it did get pretty tedious to study. Definitely a nice upperdiv elective to take if you need it for science but be aware the units will make/break your GPA a little bit. You can definitely get an A, but you'll have to put in a decent amount of work so I would suggest taking this class by itself during the summer. Lectures were alright and straightforward but lab/lecture quizzes and the exams were sometimes over complicated as there was no need for it to be tricky. For Summer 2021, he made the exams worth much more little but the quizzes were worth SO MUCH of your grade, considering there was barely any questions, as it was all multiple choice. Regardless, you can do well, you just have to read really carefully and know everything. Otherwise, the work was a good chunk since it's 6 units but it wasn't very difficult to do. Also, shoutout to Ingrid (Cely) for being a very dope TA, get her if you can as a TA!! Here are my stats and the grading scale as it was on a point system, not percent:

- Lecture Participation (Quizzes each video): 45 / 45
- Lab Attendance and Participation: 20 / 20
- Lab Quizzes (total): 64.25 / 70 (5 quizzes & 14 pts each)
- Lab Write-Up Reports: 66 / 66 (6 reports weekly & 11 pts each)
- Lecture Quizzes (total): 121.88 / 125 (5 quizzes & 25 pts each... super high stake)
- Course Evals: 6 / 6
- Midterm Exam: 43.33 / 50
- Final Exam: 42 / 50
TOTAL & Grade: 408.46 / 432 = 94.6% (A)

Esdin saved 111a for me. He is by far the best of the three professors that taught the course for 22W, and adjusted his material to be more straightforward than the other modules. He is also really kind and answers questions fully and enthusiastically. I honestly think I learned the most from him overall because of his teaching style, and I would highly recommend him to anyone that asks.

Dr. Esdin is a really great professor and I definitely learned a lot in his course. He is engaging in lectures and definitely cares about student learning. I would definitely take this course with him again.

LS7C is very similar in structure to the rest of the LS series. The first midterm in this class was particularly difficult and this class has a lot more material that I had not previously encountered in biology, so it does require a little more effort than other classes in the 7 series. The material is really interesting and does definitely relate a ton to many medical professions and different types of research so it is truly a great class to take.

This class was cap. It was dry, materials cost over $100 in total, discussions were boring, and as someone who is relatively interested in fitness and health, this course was not engaging. It is easy and not too much work, however, for someone like me who became easily bored with the course, I couldn't stand it. I would not recommend.

This class is easy in terms of workload. You have lecture quizzes you need to take on the same day (3 points each). I got full points the whole quarter except in week 10, as I was slacking and ended up missing a lecture. But in the end, he gives you a week's lecture worth of free points. My advice: TAKE GOOD NOTES. Even if you're confused, just write down word for word so you can look back on it. What's tricky: the wording of his questions (coming from someone who scored perfect scores on all his lecture & lab quizzes). I ended up getting 88/100 on both the final and midterm, which isn't terrible but I was quite struggling during the exam because the wording.

Also, I did not buy the course reader. You do need the iProfile for the project, but I paid someone $10 to use their account (you can make multiple profiles on the same account). So don't waste your money!

Esdin taught the third and fourth modules of PHYSCI 111A, which spanned weeks 7-10. Weeks 7-8 are motor circuits (lower and upper motor neurons; interneurons; cerebellum; basal ganglia) and weeks 9-10 are auditory & visual systems. I had him Winter 2022; all lectures were still on Zoom due to COVID-19, but discussions were in person.

I had Esdin for LS 7C too and so sort of had an idea of what to expect. This year he taught lectures at a slower, calmer pace than previous years, and as a result we had to skip a lot of topics that were supposed to be taught (I didn't really mind it, after all less content taught meant less content to study for the final).
Overall Esdin is a really nice and caring teacher. He wants to challenge us as students, but I think he also felt bad because our instructors for the first two modules of PhySci weren't the greatest and he sensed everyone was really tired. He made a ton of modifications to make our life easier, including keeping the all quizzes for his module online and open-note even though discussions had gone back to in-person, and his final was all T/F questions that were mostly extremely straightforward. He asked a lot of questions about experimental designs, so take good notes on the main experiments he presents in class.

Discussions are mostly the same across all modules. There will be two quizzes and two critiques in his part of class. I wrote down some tips for writing critiques in my review for Ketema Paul, who taught module I of PHYSCI 111A, if you need guidance on how to write them.

This class had a fairly light work load, 3 lectures to watch a week with 3 point lecture quizzes, lecture tests, lab tests, a final project, and the midterm and final. I took notes on everything the professor said but even when studying off the notes and course reader, his test questions were vague and poorly worded. They also were timed so it felt rushed. The lecture quizzes were easy points as long as you watched the lecture. Overall, this class was a lot of memorizing, and the tests were difficult but Professor Esdin is really nice, and his lectures were interesting. I’m selling the course reader, IProfile, and the notes for this class.
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this class was online for the entire quarter which was convenient for lectures because they were posted synchronously. you would need to watch them and take a lecture quiz (for participation) by 10pm that same day.
this wasn't an entirely difficult class, and the labs were basic knowledge for the most part. labs were every other week and attendance was mandatory. esdin was an engaging prof and very compassionate, but didn't hold office hours so you would need to turn to your ta.
if you took anatomy at any point this is pretty much that with more emphasis on diet and the cardiovascular system.
the lifestyle assessment project was so easy but it's just lengthy. managed to do it all in one night but there was literally no point in that except being a procrastinator. you just gotta overwrite almost everything and be very redundant in your report to show the ta you are putting a lot of effort into the lab.