Pham is great. I don't have much else to say because I found the actual class content to be boring but easy to understand. The labs were kind of annoying but otherwise this class was pretty good overall. I think Pham is one of the nicest and most knowledgeable professors I've ever had. He definitely cares about student learning.

Professor Pham is an incredibly knowledgeable and helpful professor. For both LS 7A and LS 7B, he made sure that all student questions were answered and offered various opportunities after class including office hours for students to ask questions and discuss the content. He knows the content extremely well, and is overall just a very nice and funny guy. 10/10 recommend Professor Pham for any class in the LS7 series.
As for the LS 7B class itself, it was quite similar in structure to LS 7A. Two midterms and one final. A lot of pre-class activities, labs, practice exam questions, and other easy assignments that were grade boosters and made it very easy to get an A in this class. There was also a few extra credit opportunities offered throughout the quarter. The class was overall quite easy to get an A in, although each midterm did have a few questions that were worded extremely trickily/difficult to understand. There's nothing to stress about in the end because of all the other free points on the table, though.
LS 7B covers genetics, evolution, and ecology. Personally, ecology and evolution are not the most interesting of topics within biology, so some of the topics covered in this class was definitely not as interesting as LS 7A was. Other than that, LS 7B was a very similar experience to LS 7A with Pham.
For those who are required to take the LS 7 series for their major, Pham is definitely the way to go!

Dr. Pham gives dad-vibes, not sure how else to explain it LOL!

Overall, he's a great lecturer, and he is very accomodating in terms of office hours, and he's super approachable with questions and happy to help. My TA Nikhil was the best too so that made discussions pretty engaging.

Overall, the discussion worksheets were kind of useless in terms of studying, and RGs were optional, but it's structured very similar to 7A and it was also a lot easier than 7A. (For context, I missed one question on the first midterm and got a 100 in the second.) Content can be a little boring because the second half of the course is just ecology etc.

Writing reviews for the 7 series is difficult because the professors are often great, while the class itself kind of sucks. I think this is really the case here as Dr. Pham was really a fantastic professor, but he could not get me to care about the class even though I really enjoyed his lectures. Dr. Pham is funny, engaging, explains concepts well, and he is one of those teachers that cares about students and feels like he's on our side. I never went to office hours, so I cannot speak for that, but whenever I asked questions in class he did a really good job of explaining the material. Participation really matters and I recommend engaging with him during lecture by asking and answering questions because it helps a lot with facilitating learning. The lectures themselves were clear, interesting, but kind of slow. As a bio major, none of the stuff we covered in this class was new to me, and I know we have to go over it because not everyone took ap bio and apes in high school, but if you have, it can be slow going sometimes. The labs are usually completely irrelevant to what we are covering and altogether not very helpful. They very much have the "busy work" vibe. If you ask people who took the series, they say that 7b is the easiest. I disagree. I think 7a is actually easier, but the transition to college makes it more difficult. The exam questions are still very strange and the amount of effort you put in studying does not reflect in your score. It's definitely doable to have an A, but this class is very frustrating on the exam front. I highly recommend getting your hands on a previous year's exam because that's really the only way to fully prepare yourself for the strange and vague questions.

TL;DR: If you don't have to take this class, don't (unless you really love genetics but even then). If you do have to take this class, Dr. Pham is fantastic, and I highly recommend him as an instructor.

Took for my major and so far this has been the easiest of the 7 series, I wasn't all that interested in the topics but with studying the iclicker questions and slides I was able to do pretty well overall. Expected to get an A- but somehow they gave me an A (better for me!). The main problem with this class is that they would change the answers to tests after the scores have been given, so if you thought you got an A- on the exam, like me, and then after two days they regrade it so you get a B+, which is frustrating to say the least. I would definitely recommend they improve on making sure all answers are accurate BEFORE telling students what they got. Still, if you have to take it, don't stress, you'll do fine.

I absolutely loved this class and Dr. Pham. The class was flipped (watched lectures at home and did problems in class) which was perfect for this type of class. The subject material was sometimes challenging but Dr. Pham explained it so well and it was nice having the video lectures to reference too. The class was great and really, really interesting. I would definitely recommend taking it!

Professor Pham is an incredibly knowledgable, caring, and engaging professor. He knows all the content extremely well, always checks in during the lectures to make sure that all students are understanding, and offers various opportunities to seek help and ask him questions. Professor Pham was extremely clear and understandable, and just overall a genuinely great guy.
The way the LS 7A class is structured/formatted is standardized across all the professors, so all the following information has nothing to do with Pham himself, but rather just how the class is like. Overall, the LS 7A class was quite easy and forgiving. There are a lot of completion points simply for doing easy work like pre-class assignments and discussion worksheets. Additionally, there was a lot of extra credit given this quarter - 16 points worth (more than a 2% bump if you do all of it). There were 3 tests ("Assessments of Learning") throughout the quarter - can be thought of as 2 midterms and a final. These "AOLs" were online (through Canvas) and multiple choice. The AOLs were difficult because the questions were often phrased quite vaguely and there seemed to be multiple correct answers; additionally, sometimes there were also typos in the questions which caused more confusion. While each AOL definitely had at least 5-10 "suspicious" questions, the class is overall still an easy A just because of the way it is structured with all the fluff points and extra credit.
Overall, Professor Pham is awesome! The LS 7A class was mostly good as well - should be an easy A as long as you do all the work, although the 3 AOLs will be tough.

Dr. Pham is absolutely amazing. Even with the fast-paced nature of the summer quarter, he made sure it was not rushed and even removed some things from the syllabus to ensure that each previous topic was covered fully. There were pre-class lectures and quizzes like the pre-major LS series, 9 quizzes, discussion worksheets, 2 midterms, and 1 final. Scores were dropped so you could easily miss a week of class and 3 quizzes were dropped as well. There are tons of practice exams provided by Dr. Pham, and he also provides a practice exam right before each exam which is very similar to the actual exam. Lectures themselves consisted of clicker questions through iClicker, which did require participation and attendance in lecture, but you could miss 3 days.

PHAM IS THE BESTTTTTT! despite taking this over the summer, the class didn't feel rushed at all and Pham is so understanding and patient with students. There are 9 quizzes throughout the class, 3(!!!) of which are dropped. There are also pre-class assignments and video quizzes w 2 attempts, like the other LS7 classes. There were also so many past exams available to study from (every quarter for the last 8 years)!! Before the 2 midterms and final, he released a practice exam that was pretty much the exact same as the actual exam which was so useful for studying. I was concerned that this class would be too much during the summer, but it's so manageable, the content is fun, and you have lots of flexibility with Pham. take this class with him you won't regret it!!! <3

Course: LS3

I tell you his goods and bads.

Goods: He is a pretty good lecturer. He explains well and his presentation slides are great. He enjoys teaching and he is a pretty approachable in office hour. You can ask any questions to him because he has a huge knowledge on LS3 and LS4.

Bads: He does not give good amount of A range (only 15-20%) and he set the median in B-. So if you are worried about the grade, then may take with other lecturers. He has a thick accent so if you have problem with accent, avoid him.