This is more of a review for the class than Khankan, but this is one of the most poorly structured classes I've taken. LS 7B and A were annoying but doable, but the first two exams have been my worst two in my life. The resources (especially launchpad) really don't help and they are not very accommadating, hopefully it gets better when its back in person or they change the course structure

Take Khankan (or Esdin, honestly both great professors; you shouldn't worry about this aspect). She is really clear in her explanations and is able to connect ideas from previous weeks to what we learn later in the course (which I really appreciate).
But as for the course, easily the worst of the LS7 series. Take it from someone who loved Anatomy&Physiology in high school and is a PhySci major, this class ruined a lot for me. OK that may be a bit overdramatic but still, this class was something else. LS7A and 7B were doable as the material was easy to learn and exams were predictable. Nothing against Prof. Khankan, but the terribly worded and confusing tests and utter uselessness of the textbook made this class too stressful and unnecessarily difficult.
The class is structured similarly to the two previous courses, so theres not much to add on. Do the extra credit (it can really help your grade) and utilize Campuswire. Also, shoutout to Kevin, my favorite TA ever.
And one more thing...big thumbs down to the series because it takes so damn long to release test scores. Should take two days MAX.

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.

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.

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.

Okay, honest review time... This class is the HARDEST class I have taken at UCLA and I am so grateful I got it over with. The material itself is not that hard to learn (except the week on osmolarity ew). The workload is a lot because of Launchpad so I would recommend taking easy classes alongside it. The exams are AWFUL (there is a special place in hell for the people who write them). Everyone (including me) failed the first midterm with a D average, so prepare yourself. They will literally say "this part of the body is working abnormally" and from there you are magically supposed to know if it now produces more or less of something???? But honestly, to do well I would say know every diagram given in CLC, lecture, launchpad, and the handouts. SERIOUSLY KNOW THE DIAGRAMS ON THE HANDOUTS, THEY WILL BE ON THE EXAM. And do not let this class become something you dread (like I did) because it really prevented me from doing my best. And, duh, do the extra credit. One day we should all revolt against the LS 7 series !!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.