Dr. Pham was an amazing professor! I am a transfer student and I took this class during my first quarter at UCLA and if it weren't for his class I would have been so overwhelmed. I was taking two other difficult upper division courses, but Dr. Pham made it very easy to study his material by providing weekly worksheets and having a hybrid classroom. Attendance is mandatory, but you want to attend because he is very kind, funny, and his lectures go over practice problems in depth.

Engaging and great professor. It's a flipped classroom format. You didn't have to read out of the book, you only had to watch prelecture videos but this was during Covid so that may change. You had to take prelecture quizzes based on correctness but he would drop some of them. For lecture, he would explain concepts and go over clicker questions which I found very helpful. Clicker questions were based on participation. Going to discussion was worth points but this was also based on participation. Weekly quizzes based on correction but he dropped some of them. 2 midterms and a final. First one was way easier. Second one was a little bit more difficult but the average was still a B. The final was worth two midterms. He also offered extra credit which can push you from an A- to an A. Best advice I can give for the tests is to double check the question and make sure you're solving for the right thing. Overall, a great professor who truly cares about the success of his students.

You won't learn much in lecture, mostly just do the clickers. But the exams are basically a repeat of the old ones and you just have to put in the work to master all types of questions. Go to office hours and work with classmates and you'll get an A

Professor Pham was awesome. He teaches a flipped classroom so you will be watching videos at home and then coming into class to solve problems with clickers. He's also very accommodating and understanding to students who have outside issues (i.e. family death/illness). Go to his office hours, he is super helpful and will try to help you where he can. He posts a TON of past exams for you to practice with and some of those problems are either similar or exactly the problem that will be on the exam. There was 2 midterms and 1 final (although the final was optional for students because of the the coronavirus and campus closure). I still have most of the course material if anyone needs help! *************

I'm so glad I took this class with Pham. I definitely felt like I learned a lot about genetics. A lot of the material builds off of the LS7 series and expands on topics that are learned there. There's not a lot of memorization, it's mainly problem solving and as long as you understand how to approach each of the problems (by doing all the practice midterms and finals that Pham posts on CCLE) you're set! And there's a bunch of extra credit as well.
Pham is so nice and such a great professor, but lectures are not too engaging. It's mostly just clicker questions. I mostly learn from doing problems in discussion and watching the online lectures that he posts. Overall, this is a good class. I would recommend it.

I dropped this class Fall 2018 because I bombed the first midterm. So I was determined to retake the course, learn from my mistakes, and do well. What I did differently: never looked at the textbook, went to every lecture for participation, printed at least 6 old exams to practice from. I really put in more time and effort into studying the old exams and past problems which is what I think really helped my performance. I printed out enough exams that go back 3 years, per Dr. Pham's advice, and started them as soon as possible, typically after discussion so we knew how to start the problems. I had Leanne as my TA, who is phenomenal and I think the best TA for this class. She has really easy techniques that make solving problems easier to memorize and easy to understand. I also went to the professor's OH often to reinforce all the problems and get help on any other problems. I think these strategies are truly what got me an A+ in the course, which is very doable because I was taking 11 other units and worked part-time. My scores-- M1: 93.5/100, M2: 100/100, Final: 200/200, Online Quiz: 30/30, Clicker: 30/30, Discussion: 50/50. He did not curve because the class did well on each exam. Just put in the time to do those exams, and your midterms will be very similar if not exactly the same.

I have the old quizzes for sale cheap, email *************. These are not found on quizlet

Honestly, I didn't really find lecture to be incredibly helpful for learning the material. The course material wasn't incredibly dense and was very manageable; there's no textbook just online lecture videos. One thing to note is that this course is a flipped classroom, so lectures mainly cover clicker questions (similar to other LS 7 series courses, but with videos instead of Launchpad).

There are years' worth of old tests and quizzes available for students to study, and the exams we received were very similar to these past tests. As such, I found that simply studying the past exams' questions and learning how to answer these problems was the most efficient way to study for this class. Honestly, I crammed a day or two before exams and did pretty well using this method.

I highly recommend this course as an UD elective!