Prof. Kane is excellent for this class, as I had heard from many people before. The course is highly similar to AP Bio; if you did well in the class in high school, you should already know much of LS1. While the course isn't difficult in content, there are a lot of "components" to this class and your grade (exams, clicker questions, online quizzes, labs, lab pre-reading quizzes), so you'll spend a lot of time just trying to remember all of these things and staying on top of deadlines, which come twice a week or so. You'll also have to be tolerant of labs that might seem a bit pointless or like busy work.

I'm not entirely sure why the other review rated Dr. Kane as all 1s, I suspect they wanted people to think she was a bad teacher so that others wouldn't take this class. But, EEB101 is easily the most fun, interactive, and interesting class I've taken at UCLA. And Tonya (she lets you call her by her first name) is easily one of the funniest, down-to-earth, and understanding professors. The subject of this class is algae which may seem boring, but it is actually interesting. The first half of the quarter has lectures as usual, a midterm (which we were given a one sided note sheet), and labs which go over the basics of the skills we need for the second half. The second half (which is definitely the more fun half) is more involved. In this class, students take an overnight field trip to Cambria at a UC Reserve right by the ocean. This is for field work and so we spent maybe 2 hours collecting algal specimens. After that, students pretty much chill for the rest of the time, there is even a bonfire and smores! In my quarter, we did not have to pay for the field trip, but that may change for future classes, but it is still honestly worth it. In lab for the second half, you work on identifying algal species and pressing them onto herbarium papers (which you can keep later on). This class also has a lot of teamwork and you will get to know pretty much everyone in your lab and your TA pretty well. Our final exam was online which was so nice of Dr. Kane. The only thing that may be tough is that the lab notebook portion of the class can take some time, but honestly if you keep up with it and work on it consistently throughout the quarter, you will be fine. You may also need to carve out some time outside of class to go algae collecting on your own since we needed to collect 14 different species. Truly the best class I've taken and I would take it again!

Dr. Kane is the best professor for LS1 as far as I can tell. She integrated dense information with fun facts and stories. I enjoyed going to class every day and the tests were fair and straightforward as long as you review the slides.

Really fun and interesting. Kanes classes are all relatively similar to one another. If youve taken a class with her, its pretty much similarly structured.

Concepts covered are interesting, exams are extremely straightforward so long as you paid attention in lecture and reviewed slides, and overall, not too bad.

Very interesting and chill class. Kane tells you exactly what to expect on midterms and exams. Class is straightforward in expectations.

Super fun! If you liked 109, youll probably enjoy this class too.

Kane was a good professor! As far as LS 7 lecturers go, I thought she taught well and tried to keep the class engaged. She could have maybe spent a little less time between clicker questions, but otherwise, she was solid. In terms of the actual class itself, I found it to be a little harder and more frustrating than LS7A. While the material for a lot of people is a bit easier to understand, I thought the exams themselves were a bit harder (Although that might have been because I had very little interest in the material). Also, there were times where I felt the class was wasting my time. The "labs" for this class are two hours long, but I felt like a lot of the activities we did either could be finished in much less time or could be better formatted to finish earlier. Additionally, there is a project where you basically have to research a plant in the Botanical Gardens, and honestly, that was a fat waste of time, as none of the material required for that project was relevant to the class. Long story short, I thought the class sucked, but Kane was good.

I thought she was very helpful and also very approachable as a professor! She taught concepts really well and I actually enjoyed the pace of her clicker questions because I got to answer the question on my own, ask people around me, then relax a little before getting back into the material.

This was by far my favorite class taken at UCLA thus far. Professor Kane gives extremely engaging lectures, and made EEB 142 amazing. The class itself is very interesting, and Kane was able to get everyone really excited about aquatic communities.

Exams in this class were pretty straightforward. Study her slides and learning objectives really well and you'll have no problem doing well on them. The tests consists of T/F, multiple choice, and short answer style questions. Discussion is very important in this class and makes up 220 of the 600 total points in the class. Discussion assignments including writing summaries and questions on the assigned papers, taking quizzes on CCLE, and writing a critique.

Overall, a wonderful class. You will have lots of fun and will not have a problem getting a good grade.

Professor Kane is a really solid professor, but I think I had extremely high expectations of her given all the amazing things that are said about her, so I didn't really feel the magic. She definitely knows the material and knows how to properly lecture. She got a little scary when she told me to get off my phone during class, but I would take 7B with her again. I never really left the class unclear about a topic, and if I did all the TAs were great at clarification.

I don't really like the LIFESCI curriculum because of launchpad. But Kane is a good professor and the lectures are solid. Midterms are not too bad, just a time constraint on the first midterm. There are so many free points in this class that even if you do poorly on the midterms and final you should still get a decent grade. GL