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.

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.

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.

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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.

I had the class with Lipman and Grether. It was pretty chill course. Selling the animal behavior and ecology books (same books for all EEB 100 courses) for $80. They were helpful to read to clarify class information. Please text me at ********** if interested.

Selling Animal Behavior, 10th ed. in very good condition

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I had a split class. Half animal behavior (with Prof. Gorlitsky) and half ecology (with Prof. Allison Lipman)

Gorlitsky's test questions are long and require deciphering. The lectures are interesting. I went to her office hours which were very helpful especially before her exam.

Dr. Gorlitsky is my favorite professor at UCLA. I've taken 3 different classes with her and I can see she genuinely cares about her students and gives many opportunities for extra credit and easy points (i.e., attendance points). The material is pretty straightforward but since there were two professors teaching this class when I took it, I did worse on their midterm than Dr. Gorlitsky's portion. Overall a really great class.

I recommend reading the textbook for the animal behavior portion of the class. It really clarified the ideas presented in lecture, so I felt like the final was pretty straightforward.

The materials covered in this class is not hard, but it is still not an easy-A class.