Dr. Kane is the best professor for LS1 as far as I can tell. She integrated dense information with fun facts and stories. I enjoyed going to class every day and the tests were fair and straightforward as long as you review the slides.

Really fun and interesting. Kanes classes are all relatively similar to one another. If youve taken a class with her, its pretty much similarly structured.

Concepts covered are interesting, exams are extremely straightforward so long as you paid attention in lecture and reviewed slides, and overall, not too bad.

Very interesting and chill class. Kane tells you exactly what to expect on midterms and exams. Class is straightforward in expectations.

Super fun! If you liked 109, youll probably enjoy this class too.

Kane was a good professor! As far as LS 7 lecturers go, I thought she taught well and tried to keep the class engaged. She could have maybe spent a little less time between clicker questions, but otherwise, she was solid. In terms of the actual class itself, I found it to be a little harder and more frustrating than LS7A. While the material for a lot of people is a bit easier to understand, I thought the exams themselves were a bit harder (Although that might have been because I had very little interest in the material). Also, there were times where I felt the class was wasting my time. The "labs" for this class are two hours long, but I felt like a lot of the activities we did either could be finished in much less time or could be better formatted to finish earlier. Additionally, there is a project where you basically have to research a plant in the Botanical Gardens, and honestly, that was a fat waste of time, as none of the material required for that project was relevant to the class. Long story short, I thought the class sucked, but Kane was good.

I thought she was very helpful and also very approachable as a professor! She taught concepts really well and I actually enjoyed the pace of her clicker questions because I got to answer the question on my own, ask people around me, then relax a little before getting back into the material.

This was by far my favorite class taken at UCLA thus far. Professor Kane gives extremely engaging lectures, and made EEB 142 amazing. The class itself is very interesting, and Kane was able to get everyone really excited about aquatic communities.

Exams in this class were pretty straightforward. Study her slides and learning objectives really well and you'll have no problem doing well on them. The tests consists of T/F, multiple choice, and short answer style questions. Discussion is very important in this class and makes up 220 of the 600 total points in the class. Discussion assignments including writing summaries and questions on the assigned papers, taking quizzes on CCLE, and writing a critique.

Overall, a wonderful class. You will have lots of fun and will not have a problem getting a good grade.

Professor Kane is a really solid professor, but I think I had extremely high expectations of her given all the amazing things that are said about her, so I didn't really feel the magic. She definitely knows the material and knows how to properly lecture. She got a little scary when she told me to get off my phone during class, but I would take 7B with her again. I never really left the class unclear about a topic, and if I did all the TAs were great at clarification.

This class does what my old community college professors called "reverse teaching." Basically, you have to teach yourself the material before lecture and lectures are just an iclicker quiz to try to reinforce whatever you learned. This may work for some, but for me this method was not enjoyable. I did not take notes during lecture AT ALL. All my notes were based off independent readings I did from the textbook.

Lecture and Lab were very engaging. The activities were incredibly useful and taught skills that were VERY IMPORTANT on the exams. iClicker and attendance were mandatory.

Grading is very forgiving, with you being able to miss multiple assignments/couple of days and still receive full credit. Exams are rather rough. You are given plenty of time however the questions may get very convoluted and are kind of built to trick you. However, if there is an unprecedented number of incorrect answers the question may be nulled entirely which is really forgiving on Professor Kane's part. I had Erika as my TA and she was incredibly helpful. Take advantage of problem solving sessions if offered, and utilize the practice midterms/finals/clickers they give you. An A is achievable but not easy.

Honestly, I hate the LS series. I genuinely believe that if I were to skip every lecture (which I can't because of stupid clicker questions), I would get the same on my tests. I think it's stupid how we literally have to learn everything ourselves through Launchpad. I don't particularly like the structure of flipped classroom. I personally think that discussion section should be the time for problem solving. I don't think that Kane gave anything more to the lecture and that was really disappointing. The "labs" were TRULY THE WORST THING EVER. We spend almost 2 hours (they made us stay the whole time) on doing worksheets that were not helpful and that were too long for the amount of time we were given. I found myself always scrambling down some BS just so I could finish the worksheet and turn it in on time.

As for the course itself, LS is pretty predictable. Clicker points, Launchpad, surveys - there are a lot of ways to get free points. The midterms aren't awful, just be wary of time. Overall, I hated Biology/Ecology before and Kane made me hate it even more.

LS 7B was a horrible class! So disorganized! The professor nor did the TA give a shit! Kane is one of the most lazy professors I have met.