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Rebecca Shipe
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Professor Shipe's lectures were very interesting and she explained even difficult topics in a simple way so that everyone could understand. The exams were doable if you study the notes. If you put some effort into it, you can easily get an A. There is no textbook, but instead Scientific American articles which were very interesting. I would definitely recommend Professor Shipe as a professor and would recommend the class as well. One of my favorite classes at UCLA!
Professor Shipe's lectures were very interesting and she explained even difficult topics in a simple way so that everyone could understand. The exams were doable if you study the notes. If you put some effort into it, you can easily get an A. There is no textbook, but instead Scientific American articles which were very interesting. I would definitely recommend Professor Shipe as a professor and would recommend the class as well. One of my favorite classes at UCLA!
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Ignore what was stated above. The course I took with Dr. Shipe was LS 1, but it wasn't included in the list, so I just clicked on some random class. Dr. Shipe was a very fair professor with a nice personality. Although her lectures are about the drier half of the course, I still found some of them to be very interesting. The beginning felt like a review of AP Bio, so it wasn't too bad. But the course got a lot more detailed towards the end, especially the animals section. However, the exams were very fair. Dr. Shipe's exams are multiple choice, and 90% of her exams are about the material covered in lecture. There were only a few questions on the exams that was about the reading, so don't worry about reading too much. Make sure you study the lecture notes--the textbook is just a supplement to reinforce the concepts Dr. Shipe taught in class. The only downside to the multiple choice questions was that some questions have choices that could potentially be correct answers, so choosing the correct one is confusing. At times, Dr. Shipe even said that one question could have more than one question. o_O Other than that, LS 1 isn't as bad as everyone puts it to be. Dr. Shipe was very fair, and as long as you go to lecture, pay attention, and take good notes, you'll do fine on the exams.
Ignore what was stated above. The course I took with Dr. Shipe was LS 1, but it wasn't included in the list, so I just clicked on some random class. Dr. Shipe was a very fair professor with a nice personality. Although her lectures are about the drier half of the course, I still found some of them to be very interesting. The beginning felt like a review of AP Bio, so it wasn't too bad. But the course got a lot more detailed towards the end, especially the animals section. However, the exams were very fair. Dr. Shipe's exams are multiple choice, and 90% of her exams are about the material covered in lecture. There were only a few questions on the exams that was about the reading, so don't worry about reading too much. Make sure you study the lecture notes--the textbook is just a supplement to reinforce the concepts Dr. Shipe taught in class. The only downside to the multiple choice questions was that some questions have choices that could potentially be correct answers, so choosing the correct one is confusing. At times, Dr. Shipe even said that one question could have more than one question. o_O Other than that, LS 1 isn't as bad as everyone puts it to be. Dr. Shipe was very fair, and as long as you go to lecture, pay attention, and take good notes, you'll do fine on the exams.
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