MCD BIO C174B
Advanced Topics in Cell and Molecular Biology: Molecular Biology of Cell Nucleus
Description: Lecture, two hours. Requisites: courses 100 or 165A, 144, Life Sciences 4 or 107. Recent developments in fields of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. Animal cell nucleus regulation of cell metabolism. Structure/function relationships, nuclear-cytoplasmic exchange, DNA replication and gene expression. Concurrently scheduled with course C222B. Letter grading.
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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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I took EEB 110 with this professor and I have to say this is one of the best courses I've taken here at UCLA. Dr. Van Valkenburgh is an expert in functional morphology and an amazing lecturer. If you're looking for an easy A, EEB 110 is definitely NOT what you're looking for. You have to take two lab practicals and three lecture exams (one of them final, but none of them is cumulative) for this course. You have a 5-hour lab every week and that could be kind of painful. The lab practicals take forever to study for because it's a lot of memorization, while the lecture exams are more about concepts. I really like how the lecture and lab materials come together and help you understand the concepts better. I'm usually not the kind of person who takes a class because it's "rewarding," but this course is definitely worth the time. I had Patrick Green as my TA and he's always very helpful & he knows exactly what he's talking about; I'm sure it's the same for other TA's. If you're a bio major looking to fulfill upper division requirements, definitely sign up for this class.
I took EEB 110 with this professor and I have to say this is one of the best courses I've taken here at UCLA. Dr. Van Valkenburgh is an expert in functional morphology and an amazing lecturer. If you're looking for an easy A, EEB 110 is definitely NOT what you're looking for. You have to take two lab practicals and three lecture exams (one of them final, but none of them is cumulative) for this course. You have a 5-hour lab every week and that could be kind of painful. The lab practicals take forever to study for because it's a lot of memorization, while the lecture exams are more about concepts. I really like how the lecture and lab materials come together and help you understand the concepts better. I'm usually not the kind of person who takes a class because it's "rewarding," but this course is definitely worth the time. I had Patrick Green as my TA and he's always very helpful & he knows exactly what he's talking about; I'm sure it's the same for other TA's. If you're a bio major looking to fulfill upper division requirements, definitely sign up for this class.
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I took eeb 153 with this prof. Not listed on the eval so disregard mcdb. AWFUL CLASS. Maybe him & his wife USED to be easy/nice but now they are both RIDICULOUS. The whole class basically failed the midterm because it was all essay and they didn't even tell us how they would grade; pretty much everyone got C's and below written in their blue books. Their lectures are really bad too; always off topic; and all over the place. It's up to students to make the connection about how their slides are even relevant to what we are studying. The final was the worst. They didn't even tell us the essay questions and we were asked to write full length essays on command in addition to fill in the blank and t/f questions. We were given no study guide, no old exams and not even any hints as to what would be on the exam. Cheryl Ann said only 1 question would be from Dick's section (1/2 of quarter). WRONG there were a good chunk of questions on the final from his section. Overall, this class was ridic! Way harder than eeb 100 and other eeb classes. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. NOT an easy A or B for that matter
I took eeb 153 with this prof. Not listed on the eval so disregard mcdb. AWFUL CLASS. Maybe him & his wife USED to be easy/nice but now they are both RIDICULOUS. The whole class basically failed the midterm because it was all essay and they didn't even tell us how they would grade; pretty much everyone got C's and below written in their blue books. Their lectures are really bad too; always off topic; and all over the place. It's up to students to make the connection about how their slides are even relevant to what we are studying. The final was the worst. They didn't even tell us the essay questions and we were asked to write full length essays on command in addition to fill in the blank and t/f questions. We were given no study guide, no old exams and not even any hints as to what would be on the exam. Cheryl Ann said only 1 question would be from Dick's section (1/2 of quarter). WRONG there were a good chunk of questions on the final from his section. Overall, this class was ridic! Way harder than eeb 100 and other eeb classes. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. NOT an easy A or B for that matter
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