MIMG 101
Introductory Microbiology
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4. Historical foundations of microbiology; introduction to bacterial structure, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, and ecology. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2021 - Avoid this professor at all costs. Ali pour is nice but she cannot lecture. She just reads off of all the slides, adds absolutely nothing. Sometimes she would barely go over a topic and say we didn't need to know details for the exam, then the exams would feature the same topic in great detail. This class had two professors, Dr. Hill and Ali Pour, Dr. Hill was great but if you want to take MIMG 101 and see Ali Pour as one of the professors I would not recommend taking it. It is very hard to learn from her and she is not understanding about honest mistakes like missing last-minute announcements/deadlines.
Fall 2021 - Avoid this professor at all costs. Ali pour is nice but she cannot lecture. She just reads off of all the slides, adds absolutely nothing. Sometimes she would barely go over a topic and say we didn't need to know details for the exam, then the exams would feature the same topic in great detail. This class had two professors, Dr. Hill and Ali Pour, Dr. Hill was great but if you want to take MIMG 101 and see Ali Pour as one of the professors I would not recommend taking it. It is very hard to learn from her and she is not understanding about honest mistakes like missing last-minute announcements/deadlines.
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Fall 2025 - As someone who had no choice but to retake this course with her and only her 3 times, I feel it is time for this review. She is the worst professor I have had here at UCLA in MIMG. I am an average A-B student but just be prepared to be a machine and memorize everything. There is no point of trying to learn or understand as she does not care about that at all. She is not approachable, she does not consider any feedback given in mid-quarter or end of quarter since I have taken this course with her unfortunately multiple times. Participation is mandatory but to be honest you could get everything you need by just reading the slides. The key is flashcards and memorization and if that is not your strong suit like myself, GOOD LUCK!! Please take this class with anyone else and I know she does not teach in summer. She also goes ridiculously fast and you will not be able to have an engaging question with her in lecture because she is too busy counting how many slides to get through. She gets annoyed if you have a question in lecture and states to come to office hours. I have never had a professor say that to me in lecture. Discussions are useless, the TA's just repeat the material if that is what is helpful for you. There is one group work project in discussion that is so easy and you will not need for any of the exams. Her exams are 40% MC and 60% short answer. Be very specific when answering questions and expect to know the most random detail like a protein that was discussed once ever. MEMORIZE. There are no cheat sheets and if you get a few questions wrong on the multiple choice which can make confusing but not necessarily difficult, expect to be down a letter grade. You will not learn from the homeworks since she just asks you to answer any question from the textbook and she does not use the textbook. So assume you need to do it for the points and don't spend to much time or effort on it. Honestly, I still can't believe she hasn't changed a single thing since I took with her the first time. As you can see by the reviews, someone needs to tell her that her method is not working.
Fall 2025 - As someone who had no choice but to retake this course with her and only her 3 times, I feel it is time for this review. She is the worst professor I have had here at UCLA in MIMG. I am an average A-B student but just be prepared to be a machine and memorize everything. There is no point of trying to learn or understand as she does not care about that at all. She is not approachable, she does not consider any feedback given in mid-quarter or end of quarter since I have taken this course with her unfortunately multiple times. Participation is mandatory but to be honest you could get everything you need by just reading the slides. The key is flashcards and memorization and if that is not your strong suit like myself, GOOD LUCK!! Please take this class with anyone else and I know she does not teach in summer. She also goes ridiculously fast and you will not be able to have an engaging question with her in lecture because she is too busy counting how many slides to get through. She gets annoyed if you have a question in lecture and states to come to office hours. I have never had a professor say that to me in lecture. Discussions are useless, the TA's just repeat the material if that is what is helpful for you. There is one group work project in discussion that is so easy and you will not need for any of the exams. Her exams are 40% MC and 60% short answer. Be very specific when answering questions and expect to know the most random detail like a protein that was discussed once ever. MEMORIZE. There are no cheat sheets and if you get a few questions wrong on the multiple choice which can make confusing but not necessarily difficult, expect to be down a letter grade. You will not learn from the homeworks since she just asks you to answer any question from the textbook and she does not use the textbook. So assume you need to do it for the points and don't spend to much time or effort on it. Honestly, I still can't believe she hasn't changed a single thing since I took with her the first time. As you can see by the reviews, someone needs to tell her that her method is not working.
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Winter 2023 - Professor Bradley was amazing! One of the best professors I've taken, the course is hard but he made it much more manageable and understandable. I am not a MIMG major and took the course for PA prereqs, but he made his lectures clear and assigned reflection assignments each week as our hmw. Discussions were optional and were used for clarification, there were 3 tests all of the equal weight for % and were non-cumulative, he allowed one-sided notes on an 8x11 paper for every test. they offered regrades for the first two exams but not for the final. There was some extra credit associated with campuswire. Overall this class will take up ALOT of time and require maximal effort to get a good grade. He does curve the overall grade but our class did pretty well on tests (averages were C's) so he may not have curved this time.
Winter 2023 - Professor Bradley was amazing! One of the best professors I've taken, the course is hard but he made it much more manageable and understandable. I am not a MIMG major and took the course for PA prereqs, but he made his lectures clear and assigned reflection assignments each week as our hmw. Discussions were optional and were used for clarification, there were 3 tests all of the equal weight for % and were non-cumulative, he allowed one-sided notes on an 8x11 paper for every test. they offered regrades for the first two exams but not for the final. There was some extra credit associated with campuswire. Overall this class will take up ALOT of time and require maximal effort to get a good grade. He does curve the overall grade but our class did pretty well on tests (averages were C's) so he may not have curved this time.
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Winter 2017 - Reading the reviews posted on here before I expected a hellish professor but I have to say the people that wrote about him are crazy. Is the class hard? Yes. Is there a lot of material? Yes. But I liked him a as a lecturer. I found him funny. I even liked learning about the sewage cycle. I don't know why people are berating him about the things he seems to enjoy teaching because his enthusiasm made the potentially dry material actually interesting to me. And I couldn't disagree more with those saying he doesn't seem to care about his students. He even brought in food one day for us to eat and chill out while he discussed fermentation. He may not be the vivacious lecturer, but give him a break, he's old and he's trying his best. I enjoyed this class and him teaching it, and even developed an interest in MIMG because of this class.
Winter 2017 - Reading the reviews posted on here before I expected a hellish professor but I have to say the people that wrote about him are crazy. Is the class hard? Yes. Is there a lot of material? Yes. But I liked him a as a lecturer. I found him funny. I even liked learning about the sewage cycle. I don't know why people are berating him about the things he seems to enjoy teaching because his enthusiasm made the potentially dry material actually interesting to me. And I couldn't disagree more with those saying he doesn't seem to care about his students. He even brought in food one day for us to eat and chill out while he discussed fermentation. He may not be the vivacious lecturer, but give him a break, he's old and he's trying his best. I enjoyed this class and him teaching it, and even developed an interest in MIMG because of this class.
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