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.

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.

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!

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.

Launchpad is the most annoying and boring thing ever. You use it for all the LS7 series, it's awful-- for that part, good luck. You can get by most of the time if you just read the highlighted/bold terms, but if it doesn't make sense then def read the chapter.

PS: I'm selling all of my notes (from both the readings and the lectures) for $15, as well as supplementary practice worksheets, so hmu on ********** if you are interested!

Dr.Pham deeply cares for his students who take his course. He makes sure to answer your questions thoroughly and is open to feedback on the structure of his class. I loved going to his class as he made genetics so much more engaging, and he oftentimes stays late during his OHs to make sure every student is cared for. I highly recommend taking his course when he is teaching 7B. An absolutely wonderful professor!

GOAT as usually. Cares a lot about whether students can learn well, and he also does the work into making information clear. He may either do lecture recordings of more content or do faster lectures and have you all ask questions during OHs. Either way, he is very helpful and clear. Exams are the same for all and can be quite hard. Regardless, passing is easy since relatively no brainer homework and labs should earn you a significant portion of points guaranteed.

Professor Pham was an incredible professor. He was super patient with everyone and would spend hours helping students outside of class. The class itself has some busy work, but I could not recommend taking LS7B with Professor Pham more.

Dr. Pham is very nice and does a good job covering the material! He always sent us emails reminding us of assignment due dates (which saved me multiple times). the labs for 7b kind of suck and are long and annoying, but that isn't Dr. Pham's fault since he isn't really in charge of course design.
He does a good job covering the material, but he ran out of time for slides every week. We kind of got stuck in this awful cycle: He'd run out of time, so he'd post a recording of the remaining slides. But then in class next week, he'd go over those slides anyways in class. But honestly, I prefer that to him rushing through slides, since he always explained the clickers and concepts well.
(and Gabi is an awesome TA)