She taught animal behavior. The workload is doable but she speaks really fast during lectures. The topics are interesting. The exam is okay but they are a bit tricky so be careful.

Highly recommend taking 100L for bio degree requirements. The a big chunk of your course grade is based on an experiment you perform with your group. Things like the prospectus of the project, the presentation of the project, and the final scientific paper of the project. There were also busy work items due in between such as individual journals or worksheets that you do in class. Overall, this course definitely balances a heavy course load because there is nothing to study for but only consistent progress in your project. My TA, Mairin, in particular was awesome. She was very chill and conducted the lab in a very casual way but at the same time induced great discussion on general lab techniques in biology. I learned very important skills, had great group members, and conducted a very cool experiment that I wouldn't have been able to do. Take this lab and don't regret it!

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Class consisted of three noncumulative lecture exams and two noncumulative lab practicals. There was quite a bit of extra credit offered. A lot of this class is memorizing the slides, and reading the textbook is very helpful. This class seemed to require the same effort as some lower divs but it was actually very fun. The material is fun and the professor tries her best to keep the class from being boring. Lots of videos during class so thats a plus.

Took this class W19. Gorlitsky taught the first 5 weeks and A.Lipman taught the rest. Workload was not bad at all - just reading a short article and coming up with questions about it before discussion.

There are two tests (multi-choice) - a midterm and a final (during 10th week & NOT cumulative). I studied the day before each exam only, and I felt well prepared.

1.5% extra credit if you do a 3 hour ecological field trip-type-thing.

For me, I felt it was extremely easy to get an (A-) because the class follows simple logic, but I don't know what I would've done to get an A. Both tests, which make up a huge majority of the grade, had questions which had many weirdly worded questions.

***For the most helpful suggestion, please see point #2 at the end.*** I LOVED THIS CLASS. I'm honestly going to MISS IT. We haven't been issues grades yet, however, I am expecting an A because my group and I worked our asses off. It didn't feel like a ton of work because it was honestly fun and we learned SO MUCH. The class is basically taught by TAs, and ours (Eric) was amazing. Dr. Gorlitsky was totally available though and for our project, she was extremely helpful. MY ADVICE: 1. TAKE THIS CLASS! ***2. Go the extra mile in the beginning and think hard when choosing a research topic. Pick the one that is most interesting to you!!! This is VITAL for making it feel enjoyable. One way or another, you'll have to do quite a bit of work, so it may as well be a topic that you would pursue whether it was graded or not.

Fair exams but there is little room for error as a few questions missed can be the difference in a letter grade. Study early and know differences in the concepts covered.

I took this class with Lipman as well. The comments about the testing are all true from other people (nit-picky, hard to do well as missing just a few questions can change a letter grade, MC) so I'll just mention the homework. The homework was not graded fast enough to be able to incorporate feedback & had really impossible standards to meet. I would spend hours reading the articles and still get points taken off. My advice for doing the homework: incorporate your own potential ways of testing a certain question/reasoning behind a question; look for where the article could gather enough information, consider other ways why a variable may have occurred/what would have made it higher or lower — don’t necessarily try to question the article’s integrity. And really try to get your HW points because it is such a large part of your grade.

I could tell that Dr. Gorlitsky was very passionate about what she teaches. She tried to incorporate many examples and videos showing different animals and their behavior, but she goes incredibly fast through lecture. She covers ~40 slides every lecture, and to be honest, it was very difficult trying to pinpoint 1) what was important 2) what was the takeaway / purpose of presenting all of those examples. The lecture felt extra long just because of the sheer amount of material.

The midterm covering animal behavior was unnecessarily confusing such that multiple answers could be correct. After reviewing the questions with the TA's (who were very unhelpful), I still do not understand why the answers were correct compared to other choices. This felt very similar to LS in the sense that you walk out of the exam feeling like you knew all the material but just unsure if you picked the answer they were looking for. Overall, the concepts were fairly easy to pick up.

Discussions were pointless and reading the articles and writing questions about them were unhelpful.

Professor Gorlitsky is one of my favorite professors at UCLA. Her lectures are super interesting and engaging and I happen to love studying animals, which makes this class even better for me.
There were two midterms for the class, along with two mini projects, and then a final presentation. Everything is very doable and the projects are always guided and explained by your TA way before it's due.
You will not regret taking this class with Dr. Gorlitsky!