dr. pham is incredibly kind and truly cares about student learning. he takes the time to answer multiple questions during lecture, really making sure that we understand a topic before moving on. he does a great mixture of content and practice problems in lecture. attendance is mandatory, but some absences are excused and the lectures are very informative and are worth one’s time. dr. pham provides several resources (worksheets, videos, clicker questions) that reflect exam difficulty, and he is very clear on what is included on exams. the course material was very interesting as well! i would highly recommend this course and professor.

The class structure has completely changed. This is the most up to date review you’ll read if you’re planning to take LS107. Obviously everyone knows it was an easy A in the past because it was online. Thus, all of the grade distributions and his rating seem stellar. However, now that it’s flipped, the class is phenomenally harder and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a downtrend in rating with Pham. Fall 2024, he had a policy where with test corrections you’d get half points back of whatever you missed. So say you got a 60/100, that would bump to an 80/100 after corrections. No wonder everyone got an A. However, now this policy has changed. You can only be awarded 5 points out of 100 on the midterm for test corrections via a quiz, and 10 points on the final worth 200 points total. Does it help? Yes, by 2.5% of your total grade after all other assignments are tsken into account. But does it help as much as receiving 1/2 points back on every question like in the past? Heck no. Thus, I wouldn’t be surprised if the grading distribution becomes a lot more scattered outside of the A range in future quarters. My friends and I are typically 4.0 ish students (3.9-4.0), yet were trauma bonded and humbled by how we went into this class thinking easy A and were not at all met with an easy A class. The average j midterm 1 (the easiest of all midterms) was an 87%, followed by midterm 2 73%, followed by the final a 71%. It’s not horrible, but be prepared for this class to be the most workload on your class schedule. I’d compare this class difficulty to Lannan for 153A, except no recycled exams. Eat sleep and breathe genetics. I got a 93% on the final but took endless nights of no sleep and losing myself mentally. So glad to be done..

Pham's so sweet! This class was pretty manageable. Just be careful-- the first midterm is really easy as it's basically LS7B stuff, but the second midterm and final aren't as simple. Lecture attendance is mandatory.