Learning from Professor Khankan was absolutely wonderful, and I am grateful for all the knowledge I gained in this class. The tests were slightly hard, but the content was fun as it was all related to human biology.

Contrary to many other comments, I would personally recommend against taking her lecture. She spends way too much time on elementary concepts and fails to allocate time to talk about more complex material. The lectures go very slowly, and the class is always behind. Almost feels like they cut out material at the end of the class because we were not able to finish.

Putting this on top of the already poorly designed 7 series courses, the class was very unpleasant to take in general.

Although Dr. Khankhan is kind and willing to assist students even outside of class, the course itself is too rigorous with too many useless assignments and readings. The professors literally tell us not to take notes because we "won't use them" and instead tell us to use the reading guides, which aren't nearly as helpful, in fact they're useless, but mandatory. The homework problems and practice exams are unhelpful as well because they're nothing like the exam questions in the least. The lectures are very unhelpful, the exam questions are several paragraphs long each with very tricky wording. It's very disingenuous for professors (whose role is to guide and educate students) to try so hard to trick students into getting the wrong answer despite knowing the material well- you can ask any student who has taken the LS7 series and I guarantee you they will agree that the exams are the worst part of the courses. I hope this changes in the future as the LS7 series is supposed to be preparing students in the Life Sciences field, but instead seems to knock them down, forcing them to hate Biology and feel as though the countless hours they have spent mastering the material is nothing but a waste.

Professor Khankan is a great and engaging lecturer. This is most evident when our lecturer switched near the end of the course; you truly realize how interesting she can make a long 1hr 15min lecture be in comparison to others. The lecture slides aren't very content heavy, and I didn't bother taking notes over them. The most effective method I found is to thoroughly read and take notes over the Launchpad readings before lecture, and have the lecture serve as a content review. Professor Khankan's lecturing is very clear, well organized, and engaging.

While I have the same complaints about wording and typos on exams, since the department and not the professor makes the exams this is essentially out of her control. However, the exams are still fair, and everything we have been tested over has been covered in either Launchpad readings or in class. I had no problem with time on the exams as well. There is a lot of content covered in one quarter, so I highly recommend that you stay on top of things and not fall behind.

You can tell that Professor Khankan cares greatly about student learning. She holds office hours four times a week, three of them are content office hours and one is for non-content office hours which is a great opportunity to chat with her and get to know her. During office hours she answers any and all questions very thoroughly and clearly to her best ability. Overall the LS7A class may have some flaws, but I highly recommend you choose her as your professor if you get the chance.

Khankan is the best professor to take an LS series class with. She has taught the LS core classes for many quarters so she has a very in depth understanding of the material and what will be asked on the exams. She is also very approachable, passionate about the material she is teaching, and will answer any question about the material no matter how simple or straightforward (so don't be afraid to ask questions!!) I highly highly recommend to attend her office hours which are extremely helpful!! Even if you don't have any questions, she clear up confusing concepts and test students with example (very realistic) exam questions.

Professor Khankan is a good professor, She cares about students and is quite engaging. Every professor basically has the same tests for the LS7 series so don't bother trying to find a professor who is "easier", I think its all about how interesting they are and how well you learn from them.
All in all Khankan is a great Professor and always loves to talk to students and offer help.

Professor Khankan is the MOST fantastic LS professor without doubts. She is super clear with everything. The class is super engaging and efficient. She is patient with every question. The class sometimes popped up extended knowledge, which is very interesting. Best Experience Ever!!!!

While Khankan is a good lecturer & professor, I think especially this quarter, LS 7C gave everyone a lot of unnecessary stress and anxiety, in an already difficult time. Launchpad was particularly unhelpful, and the tests had very poor wording (which did not change despite feedback from students). As a result, many students did poorly in the exams, and while the professors & TAs kept stressing that they would give us opportunities to make up lost points, these opportunities were limited. LS 7C was much harder compared to 7A & 7B, and there also seemed to be less room for error (because students did worser in the midterms). I think overall that the way LS7C is structured definitely needs to change, because it just isn't working, but everyone has to take it anyways.

Note: unlike previous classes, this quarter our grades were not curved. It felt like they were trying to make sure they didn't have to curve by throwing in a lot of random extra credit surveys at the end (like Week 10).

This was probably my favorite class in the 7 series content wise, but don't get me wrong it is fairly difficult. I absolutely loved professor Khankan. She made class super engaging with optional worksheets or problems to help us use the tools we were learning about and had lots of clicker questions which could be a bit annoying but were incredibly helpful while studying for the exam. The class was structured fairly similarly to the other classes in the series but is broken down as follows: Midterm 1 90pt, midterm 2 90pt, final 180 pt, discussion 72 pt, participation 72 pt, launchpad activities 45pt, pre-class review questions 45pt, PEQ's 45pt, syllabus quiz 5pt. The midterms had an optional 2 point reflection and a 6 point mini quiz as extra credit. I'm not going to sugar coat it the midterms were incredibly difficult. I didn't do a ton of the prep work before classes so to study for the midterm I would do all of the pre-class worksheets but I highly recommend doing them as you go. The best things that helped me the most, especially for the final, was to go through all of the clicker questions and write out explanations for why the answer is correct, make a study guide based on the learning goals and objectives, write out explanations for the practice exam questions, and do the CLC worksheets. The final felt much easier to me then the first two midterms, but that may have just been because I studied like a crazy person for it. There were an obnoxious amount of sort of trick questions as the majority of the tests were true or false and results took around a week to come out. Overall I highly recommend taking this class with her. The majority of the issues are with the class and LS core both of which she does not really have any control over.

Prof. Khankan was one of the greatest professors I have had so far at my time at UCLA. She was very good at explaining complicated topics and offered many office hours for more options to understand. She was very straightforward and cared about her students. This quarter was online, but she handled it very well and offered many resources and alternatives for students in special circumstances. If you have the option to take her, do it.