I loved this professor. She was very nice, reasonable, and engaging. She did a great job of connecting the lecture material to relevant things to students. For example, when we were learning about units and the effects of toxic gaseous CAFOs give off- like methane and ammonia- she showed us a n episode of Bill Nye the Science guy that SHE WAS IN. So cool. Her material was also great. Definetely take the class. She is one of my favorite professors at UCLA so far.

This cluster in general was amazing. All of the material was actually engaging and interesting, and I have learned a lot so far. The professor's and TA's all really care about students understanding material rather than just caring about grades. The assignments for the class weren't that difficult, and they were actually fun to complete at times. This cluster has educated me on so many new things regarding food, sustainability, meat, etc... We also haven't had a midterm and the final tends to be just an essay with a topic that you have the ability to chose. I highly recommend taking this cluster as it is interesting and pretty simple. If you aren't a science major this will benefit you even more as it covers 3 science GE's, including the lab one.

Cluster M1B was a little harder and more "science-y" than M1A, but definitely worth continuing on if you took the first part of the cluster. Professor Jay and Shaked are both very sweet, accommodating professors who genuinely care about student's learning. The only knock on this class is the content as it is significantly less interesting (to me) than the previous quarter.

If you took M1A, definitely continue with M1B. I recommend this class to any non-environmental majors who are interested in the environment because it is a great way to knock out science GEs and it is pretty interesting. What I liked most about this class was that all professors were extremely accommodating during covid and made each student feel like they mattered. This cluster felt like a real community :) Professor Jennifer taught the class for the first half of the quarter, and Professor Shanna taught it for the second. Both were more confusing and the topics were more complicated than M1A, but overall still pretty easy.