Nice enough professor. LS 7C just another stop in the LS series, boring and designed to make teaching as easy as possible for the professor.

I really enjoyed the content of this class and found professor khankan very engaging and friendly. She used slides during lecture and used clicker questions (you need to buy an iclicker and participation matters), and she thoroughly explained every clicker so we knew what was going on. Discussion is also mandatory, you work in groups and do worksheets together on gradscope and it's briefly gone over at the end of section. There are 2 midterms and 1 final, all of them are very difficult (but you must have taken ls7a and ls7b so it's the same gist as those tests). She is a very kind and understanding professor and really tries to help you pass the class. There is also some extra credit available by talking on campuswire and helping other students on there.

Overall, would take again for another course.

I found 7C to be by far the most interesting class of the 7 series. Dr. K was extremely caring and super available to help. The exams can be really tough and 7C gets a really bad rap as the final 7 series class but if you are proactive, you can definitely do well in this class. You can't go wrong with taking this class with Dr. K.

I can't tell you to avoid this class, because if you're reading this, 7C is probably a requirement for you. But I can tell you to prepare. If you've taken 7A and 7B already then you know what the workload looks like. So imagine that, but with concepts that aren't intuitive or familiar. You will have to study quite hard to succeed in this class, because you need both memory and really solid application of knowledge skills. The first midterm for my class was a joke. I think the average was like 55%. No one was prepared because it's simple enough to review the material, but when you open the test and realize that not a single question will be something that was directly said to you, things go downhill real quick.

Once you get the hang of the testing style and do a TON of practice problems, it's not so bad. You still get the free points from readings and PCRQs and all that, but the PEQs are much harder and the midterms and final takes up a larger percent of your grade, too. I only got an A- because I really locked in on the final and got over 95%.

Khankan herself is a really good professor and genuinely tries her best to make sure you understand the material. If you reach out to her she's really responsive and helpful. The lectures go really fast because of how much material needs to be covered, but she does a good job at explaining thoroughly and answering questions in a way that makes sense.

Good luck soldier.

I really liked Dr. K. She was really nice, understanding, knowledgable, and overall a great professor. It's very clear that she's passionate about teaching and cares a lot about her students. It's about the same structure as 7A (presumably across the entire 7 series but I didn't take 7B as it's not required for my major) with clickers, launchpad, discussion worksheets, exams on ccle, etc. It's graded on a straight scale and based on a set number of points.

The exams were pretty hard though. There's a lot of tricky questions that you have to read over and over again. One word can change the context of the entire question so you can't make assumptions. If you do, that's an indicator that you have to reevaluate the question. Definitely try to use the entire amount of time allotted, even if you finish early. Check your answers. It can be real frustrating lol. It's definitely harder than 7A imo. Thankfully I was doing this class and another physio class at the same time so I got to see similar concepts multiple times which probably helped out a lot. Out of the things given directly from this class (this doesn't include the problem solving sessions), discussion worksheets and clickers were the most helpful resources when studying the exams.
The group phase of the midterm exams are slightly different from 7A. There's 2 parts: an untimed group "consensus" with only a couple questions to do and a timed 15 - 20min phase of MCQs and fill-in-the-blanks.

Discussion, clickers, launchpad, etc are pretty standard. Launchpad is time consuming as usual but necessary to understand things in lecture. Multiple extra credit opportunities were offered (roughly 15 pts worth?).

The class is definitely doable but not easy. You have to be cautious on wording and make sure you understand every diagram shown.

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My fiat lux was based on the current school year's Common Experience, which was the book The War for Kindness. This book basically dives into everything empathy, from its biological basis to real-life experiences surrounding empathy.

I really enjoyed the class, and Professor Khankan is absolutely amazing. Each fiat lux will be different, but this one was low-commitment where we only read some chapters of the Common Experience book to guide our discussions as homework. Class consisted of different activities, primarily discussing empathy and how it works. I learned about how empathy is actually a skill one can work on, and I saw how there's actually a lot of research going on with empathy. We also did fun stuff like watching Inside Out 2. A really meaningful discussion also happened in the last class scheduled where we decompressed and applied the concept of empathy right after the 2024 election night.

Hopefully, you'll come out of the fiat lux courses taught by Dr. Khankan with perhaps even more curiosity about an initially cool and random topic you found on the class planner. If not, you'll still get lots of snacks, a free plant, and hopefully closer connections with your professor.

I have never put so much work into a class nor have I ever performed so poorly in a class.

this class dragged me through the ringer. the tests are the worst part in my opinion. There are terribly worded and MEANT to trick you. She recommends so many study strats but either way you're cooked. You need a PLF or a test bank. She also says she does not curve unless the grade distribution is really bad. Workload is the same as the 7A and 7B (2 reading gudies a week, 1 PEQ/PAL a week, 2 pcrqs a week). Time consuming and the lectures are so much better than the readings. Dr. Khankan is an amazing lecturer, however, even if I understood the lectures, I did badly on the tests. Master all the diagrams she gives you.

I took this class when it was taught by Khankan x cooper. Khakan was great, Cooper wasn't as great. Formative experience. The class is hard but there are opportunities to climb your way up there. I bombed the first midterm, studied really hard and sort of bombed the second midterm, and still managed to get an A in the class. Definitely recommend 1) going to the LA sessions 2) redoing your midterms and explaining why each answer is wrong or right.