Honestly, Dr. Levy is the BEST professor I've ever had. His teaching style is exactly what I want to model when I eventually teach my own class (I'm current grad student).

He's an awesome professor. Don't worry if you don't get the material right off the bat; he'll be more than happy to support you through out the whole course.

About Levy:
Early time slots for classes are not Levy's fault.
Awesome professor, very friendly, very helpful, very understanding. My favorite professor at UCLA by far. Yeah, his jokes are cheesy at times, but he throws them in there to keep his students interested. The subject would be a bit borring without the flair he gives it. He's really goofy, but that makes him approachable. It's extremely evident that he really does care about his students.

About Phil 31:
Personally, I'm not a math person, I'm a philosophy person. How well you do in this class is completely dependent on how you look at it. If you're bad at math, and you look at this like a math class, then you'll do poorly. If you're bad at math, and you look at this as a series of puzzles, then you'll do well.

Just a warning, some of the concepts are not easily grasped at first teaching. You WILL have to devote an extra 1-2 hours a week either to go to office hours, or to the provided tutoring sessions. The tutors are all really flexible though, so if you can't make one of their scheduled times, they'll probably schedule one on one time with you.

Go to class! It's so easy to fall behind here. You cover new material every week. It only becomes more necessary after the first midterm. If you don't go, then you won't be able to do the homework. Homework will be your key to getting a good grade in this class (especially if you didn't do so well on the midterms).

Go to the gala review sessions! They're really helpful. Often held one to two days before a major test in the large CLICC room on 3rd floor Powell

In all, I highly recommend Levy, especially if you have to take 31

Professor Levy is my favorite. He is very quirky and easy to learn from!

Professor Levy is almost like your sweet grandpa. His jokes are rather cheesy but it's cute to see his effort to make the class laugh, and the class DOES laugh not because the jokes are funny but because of it's cheesiness. His lectures are fast paced so if you miss a lecture it's difficult to grasp and understand the material covered in lecture. He does post up his slideshow presentation on the course site but going to the lecture is MUCH easier on your mind than trying to understand the slideshows by yourself. The class is about logic so everything is logical. It's almost like math and I HATE math but I love the class. It really helped me to think much more logically and I got a 94% on the first midterm. I haven't finished the class yet but it's a very useful class. The midterm is taken not on paper but on the computer. So the whole class is divided into 3 waves and each wave has different times during the day where they get a computer lab either in Powell clicc or the CDH lab near Lu Valle. It's a good class to take if you are thinking about going to law school. There is no reading for the class, you don't have to buy any books for this class. EVERYTHING is online. There is something called the Terry Text which is the "book" for the class that explains the material. But if you go to lecture, you don't have to read the Terry Text. I only read the Terry Text if I needed something clarified during homework. Also if you have a hard time with homework and can't figure a problem out, you can go to one of many tutoring sessions where there are tutors who help you with the homework so you ALWAYS get 100% on your homework.

Levy is an excellent professor! He is very helpful and quite humorous. The class is designed in a way such that you will either understand everything or nothing at all. There are so many different ways that he provides access to tutors, TAs, etc. Midterms and final are open note and open book. Overall, interesting class. Not much more I could ask for.