Professor Coffey is a very engaging and clear lecturer, and I would definitely recommend taking his class. He has a cool rock collection and lots of dad jokes.

For EPS 1, the workload was very light with only 3 fairly short homework assignments on top of lectures. The lab sections are also pretty chill. Labs are kind of lame over Zoom, but I think the TAs did their best and it was easy enough to get a good score since we could work with a group. Tests weren't too hard and were mostly just about the general concepts and some major vocab terms. We had 2 midterms and a final.

This has been one of the most enjoyable classes I've taken at UCLA. Professor Coffey is awesome, and his lectures are funny and engaging. Tests are super fair, and he gives fair homework assignments with reasonable deadlines. This class literally kept me going through this absolute nightmare of a quarter, so major props to him for that. If you have the opportunity to take this class (even just for fun like I did), I highly encourage you to take it! Not very difficult if you put in enough effort (which is a medium amount, not a ton).

Professor Coffey is easily one of the best STEM professors you will ever take! He genuinely made every lecture something I looked forward to which isn't something that most people can do, let alone for a geology class. He puts so much energy and humor into making learning geology fun. Some of the homework assignments and "virtual field trips" were a little confusing and tedious but he genuinely cares about student learning. I also thought the exams were fair and well-made since he explicitly tells you every goal he aims to cover. Would highly recommend this class (and this is coming from a social sciences person)!

Dr. Coffey is a very fun and engaging professor. His lectures are entertaining, and he does his best to try to make the material understandable by using real world examples, personal anecdotes, etc.
The workload is very light, and typically no work needs to be done outside of the weekly lab sections.
Exams are generally very fair and based directly off of lecture slides, though he does like to throw in trick questions.
Overall great professor.

Coffey is a really great professor I enjoyed this class a lot!! Despite things being online he tried his best to make it engaging for us and you can tell that he’s really passionate about the material. The two midterms and final were fairly easy as long as you studied the ‘goals for this unit’ that he posted with every slide show. I recommend answering them after every lecture so you don’t fall behind and that way before the exams you can study them rather than have to rewatch every lecture searching for the answers. Lab got pretty boring and tedious, but on the bright side you got to work with other students and most of the time you can finish the work in the lab time. My TA was Marina and she was really nice and organized, plus she was always willing to help if you asked. Overall, I would definitely recommend this class, workload is pretty light and the material was fun :)

I loved this professor! You can really tell he is passionate about what he teaches. Even though everything was online, he managed to make class engaging.

This class is definitely a bit of work, and the lecture material can be a bit dry. But Prof Coffey is awesome and engaging, even though geology isn't my cup of tea. The tests are a bit tough (I got Bs on both), but there are enough labs and assignments to get an A in the class if you do the work. Definitely not a super easy A, but certainly a manageable one.

If you just study the goals that he provides, you will be guaranteed an A on the exams. Professor Coffey makes the material easy to digest and is often very funny. He even made accommodations where if we couldn't make it to a lab section, lecture or even to our exam days, he would hold make-up exams or other opportunities to get full points. There were 2 midterms (not cumulative), and a final that was cumulative. Lecture attendance was not mandatory, and I really only attended 2 of them since they were posted afterwards anyway. There was no textbook, and he rarely gave out homework assignments which were actually a bit fun to do. He does suggest doing some extra Wikipedia readings, but if you don't do them, you'll still be fine. Labs were a bit more difficult to get full points on, and I realize that I just suck at looking at rocks. There was a group presentation in the beginning, and then an individual book presentation at the end. I had Zach as my TA, and he was pretty chill.

Super engaging lectures and really light workload so I definitely recommend as a GE. The TAs were all super nice too, I had Zach and he was awesome! The only drawback was how long it took for grades to be posted; we didn't get our grades for the first midterm back by the time we took our second midterm which kind of sucked. But other than that it was a great class and actually made some boring stuff seem super interesting.

Overall, I enjoyed taking this class. The homework/labs were pretty tedious, but other than that no complaints. Lectures were uploaded onto ccle, making the class flexible. When it comes to answering students' questions, he was very communicative and provided lots of support especially during office hours. He answers to emails quickly and overall a great professor!

There are two midterms which are non-cumulative and a final. His tests are very fair and mainly consist of the goals that are provided for each chapter. Definitely just a lot of memorization.. shoutout quizlet

Everyone in my lab section was pretty collaborative to we'd all work together on labs. Labs mainly consisted of rock identification and using google earth. My TA, Zach, was really chill.