Professor
Lawren Sack
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Spring 2022 - If you are interested in taking this class because you heard it was “easy,” it’s not like that anymore. He’s back to his pre-pandemic style of teaching. This means that the only forms of grading in this class are two midterms that are completely multiple choice. If you miss even a few questions on a midterm, the possibility of getting an A in this class will be close to impossible. I really don’t understand this lame sauce professor and why he made this class suck big time again. He makes us students memorize his course reader (that costs $60) word for word. To get a good grade in this class, you need to memorize every word in the course reader. You cannot gloss over anything. For the first test, we had to memorize just under 30 pages! For the final, we had to memorize around 45 pages! This Professor is just not it anymore. He is so out of touch with reality. I really don’t know why he makes us endlessly memorize these random topics. This style of teaching does not solve anything for anybody. I would suggest taking another class if you want a fun life science GE. I even found classes like MCD BIO 138 to be easier than this…and that’s saying something.
Spring 2022 - If you are interested in taking this class because you heard it was “easy,” it’s not like that anymore. He’s back to his pre-pandemic style of teaching. This means that the only forms of grading in this class are two midterms that are completely multiple choice. If you miss even a few questions on a midterm, the possibility of getting an A in this class will be close to impossible. I really don’t understand this lame sauce professor and why he made this class suck big time again. He makes us students memorize his course reader (that costs $60) word for word. To get a good grade in this class, you need to memorize every word in the course reader. You cannot gloss over anything. For the first test, we had to memorize just under 30 pages! For the final, we had to memorize around 45 pages! This Professor is just not it anymore. He is so out of touch with reality. I really don’t know why he makes us endlessly memorize these random topics. This style of teaching does not solve anything for anybody. I would suggest taking another class if you want a fun life science GE. I even found classes like MCD BIO 138 to be easier than this…and that’s saying something.
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Summer 2024 - Took this class over the summer and it was very easy to do. We were given a fun anatomy assingment and a case study each week and was due before your section every week. You are only graded for those assignments and participation. The professor never popped in, class was directly led by the TA (mine was Jordyn, she was amazing). If you go to her office hours she will help you tremendously with the assingments so dont be afraid to ask. I know it says its a 4 hour lab on myucla but it was actually 1 hour long, we only went over the assignments we did the previous week (all meetings were on zoom). In all, the experience was good, and like I said Jordyn was very helpful. So if you can, take this over the summer rather than in the regular school year because labs will be 4 hours long.
Summer 2024 - Took this class over the summer and it was very easy to do. We were given a fun anatomy assingment and a case study each week and was due before your section every week. You are only graded for those assignments and participation. The professor never popped in, class was directly led by the TA (mine was Jordyn, she was amazing). If you go to her office hours she will help you tremendously with the assingments so dont be afraid to ask. I know it says its a 4 hour lab on myucla but it was actually 1 hour long, we only went over the assignments we did the previous week (all meetings were on zoom). In all, the experience was good, and like I said Jordyn was very helpful. So if you can, take this over the summer rather than in the regular school year because labs will be 4 hours long.
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