Professor Esdin is amazing. He is very supportive of all his students and takes his time to make sure that you understand the material. The class content in his course is definitely more challenging than the previous 7 series courses, but by doing the assigned work and keeping up with lectures, you can do very well. His lectures are clear and very thorough for all the material and you can tell that he cares about the success of the students in the class.

The tests are challenging and since they are standardized for the whole series, the professor you have doesn't really impact its difficulty. However, I can say that having taken the 7 series with a different professor each quarter, Esdin was definitely the most helpful and engaging. 100% recommend Professor Esdin for 7C.

Well what can I say….. the class was tough and the exams were impossible. Very difficult conceptual questions that were ten times harder then the clicker questions or the CLC worksheets. I felt very discouraged each time I got my score. No matter how much you studied you could never get a good mark. Esdin, while a good lecturer, had an an aura of arrogance which was hard to ignore and made students feel even worse. The class was divided in two: half of the students get A’s on exams while openly bragging about having access to old exams, colluding with others and using Chegg, and the rest of us who attempt it honestly and leave with the C.

The entirety of the LS7 series really upsets, frustrates, and discourages me. The exams are not a direct test of your knowledge of the material, the questions are convoluted, and there are often multiple ways to interpret a question. The readings were way too much (why am I teaching myself the material before learning it from the professor??) and the reading based quizzes are ridiculous.

I spent over 10 hours each week writing my notes and making sure I get everything. Thankfully, the final exam was easier than the midterms, and because of my extensive notes, I was able to find a lot of the answers in them-- I recommend you work really hard during the quarter, because that will allow the final exam to be a not-so-stressful experience (I personally did not study for the final exam thanks to the hours of work I put into the class prior, and got an A- on the final, and thus an A in the class).

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I cannot express how much I loved this class.
Professor Esdin is without a doubt the BEST professor I've ever had the pleasure of studying under, in regards to your typical STEM classes. I ended the quarter with a B but the professor wasn't to blame at all - I was working part time and he was very understanding of my situation. I felt like I learned so much in this class, and if there was anything I didn't understand, he took his time to explain it the best he could. And honestly, he made everything complex seem very simple.

Plus he talks to his students, which is always a great thing.

I highly recommend taking this class with him!

Professor Esdin and 7C were tough. Professor Esdin was funny in lectures at time, but being in a large lecture hall made it difficult to hear him at times. His lecture slides were not all descriptive so you have to pay more attention to what he says than what is on the PowerPoint slides. iClicker questions were important for participation credit as well as really helpful for the midterms and final material. Discussion sections were also graded heavily on accuracy with both independent and group worksheets working with your assigned pod groups. There are two midterms (wk 1-3 content and wk 4-6 content) and one final (focused on wk7-10 content, but covers a few content of previous weeks). I personally found the second midterm to be a lot easier than the first midterm, but both were relatively difficult. DEFINATELY, become familiar with the diagrams covered in lecture/discussion because 99% of the questions on the exams are linked to diagrams. His grading system is based on points (total of 680 points) which the points come from midterm scores, final exam scores, discussion worksheets, Achieve readings, PCRQ, PCQ, and iClicker. The reading on Achieve can be a bit long and a bit time-consuming, but the questions that follow do provide some help.

this class is extremley hard. the material is very heavy and it is very hard to understand everything. I thought 7a and 7b were super easy. I then took this class and was just hoping to get a B. the midterm 1 is so hard so i would study a lot.

If you are reading this review, you have probably already taken the other two classes in the 7 series and this class is pretty much exactly the same. The material itself focuses on many new topics regarding human body systems, but also reviews a lot of 7A material. The overall workload is the exact same, but the dreaded wording on the exams make the exams harder than they need to be. People tend to do pretty poorly on the first midterm, but the second midterm and final went much better. Overall, it is not a difficult class, try to review clicker questions, discussion worksheets, and practice exam questions before exams though. There is also a good bit of easy extra credit given throughout the quarter. Esdin himself is a great lecturer who loves to throw in jokes every now and then. He's clear and concise as well.

Dr. Esdin is a really great professor and I definitely learned a lot in his course. He is engaging in lectures and definitely cares about student learning. I would definitely take this course with him again.

LS7C is very similar in structure to the rest of the LS series. The first midterm in this class was particularly difficult and this class has a lot more material that I had not previously encountered in biology, so it does require a little more effort than other classes in the 7 series. The material is really interesting and does definitely relate a ton to many medical professions and different types of research so it is truly a great class to take.

Although this class proved to be very difficult to me, I did enjoy it!
As with the rest of the LS 7 series, Launchpad is used, but I found myself to be the most successful after reviewing iClicker questions posed during lecture & after reviewing discussion section materials. Launchpad was helpful for general knowledge surrounding the subject, but DO NOT rely on it for your learning!! I did this for the most part & did not receive the grade I could've hoped for. Please, please, please engage with the material on a deeper level by reworking iClicker questions, discussion section questions, and make sure you 100% understand the diagrams & visuals you are given. I often glazed over these, as I thought I had sufficient understanding from just reading the material, but understanding the diagrams associated with the description is crucial (especially for midterms & finals).

I strongly disliked this class. Esdin is a great person and funny professor, but at the end of the day, he has no control over the structure of the class, which is main issue of LS 7C. The TA's were extremely unhelpful and took many many many points off for discussion each week. Discussions were on new topics not closely related to class, but graded on correctness. The tests were worded ridiculously strange and had questions on topics we very briefly went over in class. Many students failed the midterms. Lectures don't really prepare you for the tests, and neither do clicker questions or discussion worksheets. Also, check the pdf of the clicker questions for the slides because the lecture slides are missing a lot of important pages. There really wasn't any useful guidance on how and what to study, leading many students to do poorly on the test. This class was just very frustrating because of the lack of straightforwardness and helpfulness. And to top it off, we were constantly told it was our faults for not doing well when clearly there are issues with the structure of the class.