Professor Seibt was an awesome professor. For my first quarter at UCLA, the class was a total breeze and her humor added to the overall lighthearted atmosphere of the class. There was a total of three assignments, all of which were writing-based (not too complicated and graded easily) that we worked on in assigned groups. Other than that, points came from the midterm, final, and participation (clicker questions asked throughout every lecture; not graded on accuracy - only a measure of attendance). I found a majority of the material to be pretty straight forward and definitely manageable for a north campus major taking it as a physical science GE! 10/10 would recommend.

This course was a fairly easy GE, professor Seibt provides many opportunities to earn extra credit. There were 4 homework assignments, 4 quizzes, a midterm and a final. The workload was manageable and the assessments were fair (the midterm had an average of 90 while the final was harder - an average of 75). The lectures were engaging and I was excited to come to class and learn about a prevalent. Overall I recommended this course, it is fair and the professor clearly cares about the subject matter.

This has been the easiest class that I have taken at UCLA. The class could definitely be boring at some points, as much of it felt like common sense, but it was enjoyable because Ulli's lectures were pretty engaging. The homework and quizzes were pretty manageable, and the midterm had an average of like 90. A lot of people complained about the final being unreasonably difficult, but it still had an average of 75, and it was very doable if you understood the class at a surface level.

Manageable GE! Seibt is very passionate and knowledgable about climate change so she did very well at teaching it. She always made jokes in class which kept the environment very light and fun. She would always ask for our input when it came to homeworks and teaching style. Her slides are by far the best I've seen, they're very easy to follow and useful when you need to go back and review (slides and lecture recording are posted). Take home homeworks and quizzes alternate every week but I always found them to be pretty easy, sometimes the TA's get picky about little things and take off like 0.25 points but still it was easy. Midterm was just all the quiz questions reworded. Final was where the curve ball came in and was a completely different story. The questions were a lot more confusing than the class material, but in her defense it was her first year teaching the course so maybe all the emails she got about the final will hopefully make her better for future courses. Overall this is a really easy GE you can just put in the back of your mind, concepts are straight forwards and I feel a lot more informed on climate change!

Seibt is not a good professor. Although the class was relatively easy, she makes her tests extremely hard for no reason and often makes mistakes on her own tests. For example, the language she uses in her exams are unnecessarily hard. Also, she stated on the midterm that a bonus point would be given if students selected their test version as an answer choice. Instead she just gave the point to us (1/1 instead of an actual bonus point 1/0). When confronted about anything contested, the professor is unable to admit she is wrong and comes up with a weak argument as to why she’s right and proceeds to gaslight. Exams are extremely subjective. Overall there are easier GE’s. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS. Not an easy GPA GE booster.

As a senior I can say that Professor Seibt is one of my favorite professors I've had at UCLA. She is so funny in lecture and really nice, and I looked forward to going to her class every week. She has a way of explaining things that is very clear and concise and she's good at making complex concepts seem simpler. She also sometimes shares personal stories of research she's done in other parts of the world as it relates to class content, which I always found very interesting and engaging. I saw some reviews from a few years ago saying she's disorganized, but I would say that hasn't been my experience with her at all. The class has been very structured and her expectations of us have been very clear. She'll also drop hints as to what will be on the exam in class. There were four homeworks and four quizzes for the class that weren't too hard, and she gives extra credit for answering iClicker questions in class. The only criticism I would give is that on the quizzes you can't go back to a question once you've answered it, but I think that's because sometimes the questions build on each other and later questions will contain the answers to earlier questions. Oh yeah, and no readings!!

I took this course during the COVID-19 panini, and honestly I think it was great for a four-unit GE.

Lectures were recorded online and viewable asynchronously, slides were posted and clear to use, and attendance wasn't mandatory, so I actually didn't attend very many lectures. Considering the relative ease of the exams (as a STEM major), and the amount of quiz make-up opportunities available, I would strongly recommend anyone to take AOS 1, whether that's as a GE, a GPA boost, or just as a glimpse into the environmental science world.

Professor Seibt is, especially at 2x speed, very easy to listen to and understand. I think her classes — and the last homework, an at-home demonstration of thermohaline circulation — were really fun, and a good way of making the topic truly unforgettable.

Professor Seibt was honestly a really funny professor and she must produce some amazing research because she really does not know how to run a class. During the first day of lecture she literally had nothing planned and was curious of the things we wanted to learn that quarter. I never even had a high school teacher that asked such questions. As much as she was funny, the class was very disorganized and the TA's reflected her disorganization. Luckily, the class was pretty easy and she gave us up to 5% extra credit, but the grading made absolutely no sense. Neither Professor Seibt or the TA's had a clear sense of what they wanted to see on the midterm or final. However, I would recommend this class for those who want to take a family easy GE while having a good laugh in lecture just due to her German bluntness with people.

While the course material is very interesting, Seibt's lectures are not that interesting, because she isn't very engaging with her slides. I liked her assignments and her projects, and thought I learned a lot from those. She offers clicker points for extra credit (~5%). Her exams are all free response, and timing is never an issue on them. I believe she is a fair grader. I would take this class again because of a personal interest in climate change, but she is a bland lecturer -- I think the class has so much potential, but maybe take it with a more interesting instructor.

AO SCI 1 is an extremely interesting class. Hell, if Ulli Seibt managed to make the class somewhat engaging then I think that means the content of this course is good. However, this class is extremely poorly structured and I would not recommend taking it with Ulli Seibt. For starters, she is extremely disorganized and has changed the syllabus multiple times throughout the quarter. Moreover, her lectures and slide deck are inaccurate to the content of the exam, and I now understand why there are so little people taking this class this quarter. The only positive thing I could say about this professor is that she gives extra credit for iClickers, other than that I would say to take AOS1, so long as it is not with Ulli Seibt.