EE BIOL 151A
Tropical Ecology
Description: Lecture, one hour; discussion, two hours. Requisite: Life Sciences 1 or 7B. Broad introduction to biodiversity, community structure, and dynamics and ecosystem function of range of tropical forest habitats. Discussion of such themes as biogeography, forest structure, plant growth forms, animal communities, herbivory, forest dynamics, and disturbance regimes. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2019 - This class definitely has more assignments than the average EEB upper div, but I feel that these assignments for the most part serve to boost your grade as exams aren't worth as big of a chunk as they might be in other classes. Definitely focus on the literature review and the midterm to pour your energy into, as these are what I lost the most points to. Its nice to have a professor like Dr. Gorlitsky who is very obviously passionate about what she is teaching, and I do feel like I have come away from the class with a higher interest in the tropics than before. Overall it seemed like my peers and I did relatively well in the class and I would recommend the class to others.
Fall 2019 - This class definitely has more assignments than the average EEB upper div, but I feel that these assignments for the most part serve to boost your grade as exams aren't worth as big of a chunk as they might be in other classes. Definitely focus on the literature review and the midterm to pour your energy into, as these are what I lost the most points to. Its nice to have a professor like Dr. Gorlitsky who is very obviously passionate about what she is teaching, and I do feel like I have come away from the class with a higher interest in the tropics than before. Overall it seemed like my peers and I did relatively well in the class and I would recommend the class to others.
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Most of the stuff on here is accurate. Her lectures boring, exams hard, and clickers useless but easy 60 pts. I actually wouldn't mind all this if it weren't for the fact that she could care less about her students. I emailed her her about 4 times concerning grading and she ignored them all except for 1 where she actually told me what she expected out of some assigned online lecture questions she assigns. Sad to say her email was misleading too--she said she did not grade hard on those questions yet she gave me an 5/10 on one of them for no apparent reason. Along the same lines, some TAs could careless about points too. They must figure the class is out of a thousand so 3 or 4 points won't matter. THEY DO! especially when you loose them unexpectedly and for some stupid "guidelines" she will never change. This class is ridiculous and kinda sad if anyone likes it. If you want to avoid listening to an annoying voice for 20 lectures, don't take her. Hope this helped. (memorize the phyla! this will save you tons of points on exams)
Most of the stuff on here is accurate. Her lectures boring, exams hard, and clickers useless but easy 60 pts. I actually wouldn't mind all this if it weren't for the fact that she could care less about her students. I emailed her her about 4 times concerning grading and she ignored them all except for 1 where she actually told me what she expected out of some assigned online lecture questions she assigns. Sad to say her email was misleading too--she said she did not grade hard on those questions yet she gave me an 5/10 on one of them for no apparent reason. Along the same lines, some TAs could careless about points too. They must figure the class is out of a thousand so 3 or 4 points won't matter. THEY DO! especially when you loose them unexpectedly and for some stupid "guidelines" she will never change. This class is ridiculous and kinda sad if anyone likes it. If you want to avoid listening to an annoying voice for 20 lectures, don't take her. Hope this helped. (memorize the phyla! this will save you tons of points on exams)
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