GEOG 112
Analytical Animal Geography
Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 1, 2 or Life Sciences 7B, Statistics 12. Designed for juniors/seniors. Analysis of processes of expanding and contracting distribution areas. Focus on island biogeography and its implications for biodiversity trends in natural and anthropogenic environments. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
1 of 1
Most Helpful Review
Great professor!! I've had her for Animal Geog., Conservation in Developing Countries, and Geog. 5. Smart. entertaining, passionate, and very clear in what she expects from you. Her exams are straight forward and don't aim to trick you. You do have to take good notes and know them well before you head into her exams, but it's comforting to know that as long as you put in the effort you will get a good grade (and learn something in the process). Her work loads are fair. She does have 10-page research papers in her upper-division classes, but they are more than do-able, as she gives you the entire term to work on them. You can't go wrong with Prof. Illes. I wish UCLA would get more professors like her.
Great professor!! I've had her for Animal Geog., Conservation in Developing Countries, and Geog. 5. Smart. entertaining, passionate, and very clear in what she expects from you. Her exams are straight forward and don't aim to trick you. You do have to take good notes and know them well before you head into her exams, but it's comforting to know that as long as you put in the effort you will get a good grade (and learn something in the process). Her work loads are fair. She does have 10-page research papers in her upper-division classes, but they are more than do-able, as she gives you the entire term to work on them. You can't go wrong with Prof. Illes. I wish UCLA would get more professors like her.
Most Helpful Review
Where do I start? First of all, his lectures are mostly just his own personal thoughts. He shows a lot of pictures, puts up some graphs from the book and mumbles something about them, and talks about how important it is to conserve the environment. That said, you really don't need to go to class, except for the occasional announcement. He required a 5pg single spaced essay that wasn't too bad, but his midterms and finals were hard! It was all on the reading from a terribly boring and dense book. Pretty much nothing he talks about in class was on the exams. So like others were saying, don't be fooled by his gentle demeanor and low key lectures. If you want to take this class, be warned that it is extremely boring - one of the dullest classes I've ever taken in my 4 years at UCLA. And you pretty much have to do ALL of the reading to get an A, and I usually get A's in classes without doing any of the reading.
Where do I start? First of all, his lectures are mostly just his own personal thoughts. He shows a lot of pictures, puts up some graphs from the book and mumbles something about them, and talks about how important it is to conserve the environment. That said, you really don't need to go to class, except for the occasional announcement. He required a 5pg single spaced essay that wasn't too bad, but his midterms and finals were hard! It was all on the reading from a terribly boring and dense book. Pretty much nothing he talks about in class was on the exams. So like others were saying, don't be fooled by his gentle demeanor and low key lectures. If you want to take this class, be warned that it is extremely boring - one of the dullest classes I've ever taken in my 4 years at UCLA. And you pretty much have to do ALL of the reading to get an A, and I usually get A's in classes without doing any of the reading.
AD
1 of 1
