Dr.Khankan is one of the best professors and lecturers at UCLA!!! I had her for 7A and decided to take her for 7C as well and she truly is very caring. She allows us to try the problems on our own and is a very engaging lecturer. However, I will say that the course, 7C, itself is definitely not easy since the material and the exams require a lot of critical thinking and require you to connect a lot of concepts and body systems/processes together. The exams are also a bit tricky with the amount of info they provide and how some things are worded, however, I felt pretty prepared from the exam due to AAP PLF sessions and reviewing the Clicker questions. This course is not at all memorization heavy which I saw a lot of classmates trying to do, they give you the diagrams and pictures in the exam but you just got to connect and critically think!! I personally really loved human physiology and this had to be my favorite course in the 7 series.

Really easy class. Khankan is super clear about everything and if you use the resources she gives you you’ll easily get an A. I didn’t do any launchpad readings or go to any extra office hours. All you do is the day before the final, review all the clicker questions discussion sheets and the practice exam questions. Understand exactly why the answer is the best choice and none of the other answers are correct and you should be good to go.

Dr. Khankan is a great teacher. She's very knowledgeable, clear, and helpful during her lectures and office hours. I would highly recommend taking LS 7A with her. She's also very good at explaining clicker questions. For me, I would take notes for every launchpad but some students don't and just click through. I'm not sure how you can retain information without taking notes. Also, the CLC sessions are pretty helpful so try to go to those. Discussion sections are just worksheets but help you master the content. Honestly, everything designed in the LS series curriculum is pretty well done except for the fact that there is a lack of practice exams and problems. I know that there are clicker questions but it would help if they gave everyone a practice exam so students know what the format of the exam is going to be like because you kind of feel blindsided your first midterm. Just know that it is more application than memorization in the course and that this is a weeder class so some of the questions aren't even testing your knowledge but just whether or not you see what they are trying to test. So don't be discouraged even if your first midterm grade is low. And also, don't go to the TA Sean's office hours - his attitude is super standoffish and asking him for explanations of midterm problems made it seem like him doing the students a favor. He literally told me, "I don't know. I didn't look at the midterm beforehand. I don't know" and also, "if it's a true false question, then why are you asking me, you already have the answer". He was jsut not helpful at all and instead made the review process that much more negative. Sorry if you have him as a TA

I took this class to decide if I could major in a hard science; I learned that I cannot. Obviously, the material is very difficult, and you have to put a lot of work into LaunchPad for a good grade. However, Dr. Khankan was a great professor! Her lectures are fine- there's just a lot of participation. Take every extra credit opportunity, as you never really know how you're going to do one the exams until afterwards. There's 2 midterms, 1 final, but a lot of your points will come from LaunchPad, Clickr questions, and the worksheets you do in discussion. Make sure you do LaunchPad on time before every lecture, even if you just click through it and go back later. I had my discussions with Sean, who wasn't very helpful, but my LA was great. It's important to get 100% on every worksheet in discussion, but it usually wasn't too hard, since Sean went over each question before class ended, and usually there were smarter students enrolled that could help. Attendance and participation is very important, but Khankan allowed you to miss up to 2 lectures, since the points were out of a smaller amount than the max. I really appreciate Khankan now, (end of winter quarter 2020- Corona), as she and all other classes have allowed us to prorate our final scores, instead of taking it online at home. Even though this wasn't just her decision, she has been an extremely fair teacher, and went out of her way to help answer questions during lecture.

Amazing teacher. She always explained things very well and she was ALWAYS down to help. LOVED her. she really vouched for us at the end with covid-19. but LS 7A will destroy you if you're not ready for it. the content was hard and the exams were soul crushing... if you want to succeed in this class, review the learning objectives and make sure you can answer them. Tests require lots of critical thinking and complex thought. It is not regurgitation by any means. However, class is heavily padded with launchpad assignments and quizzes. Make sure you understand how the mechanism works (not the details) and you'll be gucci

Professor Khankan was actually a joy to be in class with. She is a great professor and I have nothing bad to say about her at all. Lectures were engaging and she always knew what she was talking about. She was pretty thorough in her explanations which helped my understanding of the class material. However, the grading system was atrocious. Launchpad was straightforward as usual, but the lab sections and exams were horrendous. The exam questions were horribly worded which made them difficult to answer regardless of how well you know the material. The class average for the first midterm was around 65% which did not get curved in the slightest. Again, I think professor Khankan is a great professor and she certainly did her part to teach us the material well, but when the majority of the scores a D or lower on an exam, it is hard to blame the students entirely. In addition to this, the lab sections were harshly graded. You would get points taken off for seemingly no reason sometimes. They would ask super open-ended questions and then take points off if your answer did not use specific words.

Overall, Professor Khankan is great, but the class structure and grading is quite awful. If you have to choose a professor you will not go wrong with Khankan, but in order to excel in the class you will need to put in lots of extra practice so you get used to answer the poorly phrased questions that you will be confronted with come exam time.

Dr. Khankan is a great professor, and she made some concepts really easy to understand. She had plenty of office hours and a few Q&A review sessions, which I thought were great for studying. She would always answer every question in lecture clearly, and it is clear she knows her stuff. Definitely recommend taking this class with her if you have the chance.

This review is mainly for this class, and not about her.

This class is the hardest of 7 series IMO. They packed so much stuff into it that I felt like was pretty unreasonable for a college undergrad (all the systems in the body, gene editing, and cancer). I felt like the class was very poorly organized. It is too much to ask of students to try and study a new system every week and to understand the ins-and-outs of their molecular systems, and I wish they slowed the pacing down. It moves by really fast, and it can be easy to fall behind on the class material/

The tests were really bad, and they often pull tricks with the wording on the questions. It is a pretty difficult class, and it definitely requires constant studying to do well. While Khankan did not release the average for the midterms, I am quite confident that the averages were in the "C" range. The clicker questions are nothing like the level of difficulty that was on the exams. For me, the best study tool were the CLC worksheets

Discussion sections were very poorly organized and were unnecessarily long. They would ask us to complete a "worksheet," which was essentially just a mini-quiz of the week's info within a pretty short time limit. We were often rushed while typing up answers to our questions, and whenever I would ask my TA (Bryanna Chavez) a question, she would always respond back to me with a question, which was extremely frustrating. I understand they are asked to do this, but I wish they would change this policy. Moreover, the worksheets were graded very harshly and they would often take off points if we didn't include certain words even though we would get the general gist of the questions correct.

By now you should know how awful the LS7 Series exams are, and let me tell you, they only get worse in 7C like all these other reviews state. With that being said though, Khankan is the best professor to take this course with as she teaches with such clarity. Khankan is definitely one of my favorite professors I've taken so far. This quarter students from other professors even attended Khankan's lectures because they found that she taught much better for the exams. I cannot say enough good words about professor Khankan especially after taking her with an online course and then an in-person course.
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Logistics wise though, study for the midterms a lot harder than you studied for 7A and 7B midterms. I would get A's on the 7A and 7B midterms, but got a D on my first 7C midterm. Do all the extra credit and just study hard for exams and you can get an A.

Khankan is super nice and a good professor but the tests are astronomically harder than the clicker questions and practice exam questions.

Dr. Khankan is an extremely energetic, helpful, and engaging professor. Her lectures are extremely interesting, as she explains clearly and always finds time to answer student questions and offer help. LS 7C was by far my favorite class within the LS 7 series, as it covered human physiology.
Dr. Khankan hosted review sessions before each exam, in which she would address student questions for multiple hours, which was extremely helpful. I would highly recommend taking LS 7C with Dr. K!

As for the LS 7C class itself, it was structured very similarly to the rest of the LS 7 series. Two midterms and one final exam, all on Canvas. The first midterm seemed quite difficult compared to the second midterm and the final exam. LS 7C is definitely the most difficult class in the LS 7 series, but I also found the content to be the most interesting and engaging. There is quite a lot of pre-class work in this class, as you are required to submit a reading guide before the first lecture of each week and answer various Achieve pre-class reading MCQs. These pre-class assignments tend to be quite tedious and long, and do not always seem particularly relevant to succeeding in the class itself.
Much like the rest of the LS 7 series, the exams test a deeper understanding of the concepts, rather than rote memorization. The best way to prepare is probably to understand all the diagrams/feedback loops in detail and review past PEQ/iClicker questions.

Overall, Dr. Khankan is a fantastic and engaging professor for LS 7C! The content of the LS 7C class itself is also very interesting, but the class is definitely challenging.