This was a horrible class. Please avoid the TA Katie Hannibal if you can. She has been the worst TA that I have had and is extremely condescending if you ask her for anything (like she wont give you feedback or help bc doing her job is hard). The course is graded off of 5 labs and a final project, each worth a large percentage of your grade. The average for these labs was about a 70%. Our TA would take off points for anything from wrong color font, to adding too much detail. She graded our week 2 lab in week 5 but then was upset you didn't incorporate the previous feedback. She would also randomly skip lab sessions without notifying us. The professor then defended the TA when the concerns were brought up by many people and then explained that "we just don't think you can keep up with the expectations from before covid." implying that we were incompetent, when the points taken off were not outlined in the syllabus. The grading was so entirely arbitrary, which was the most disheartening part. I respect and liked Kane as a professor for 109, but she did not have the time to dedicate to 109L. This was shown by the zero office hours offered by the prof, and the TA, and the complete refusal to answer emails. Please avoid taking this class over the summer, but especially avoid katie:)

First, I don't know if it was just for my quarter but bruincast wasn't set up in the room so the "recorded lectures" ended up being podcasts which made it super hard to follow. The professor herself is mid. We fell behind a couple of times because of the amount of clicker questions she would ask in lectures. There were a lot! It was honestly annoying. We also had Dr. Pires be a guest lecturer for us a couple of times and she went through our whole week's worth of slides in just one day which is saying something about the pace of Kane. She also provides practice questions before the midterm and final but no answer keys. They expect you to colloborate with others which was super annoying. The professor doesn't explain things as well as Pires did so if you have the choice, definitely take it with Pires. People tended to do worse on midterm 1 than 2 so don't feel too bad if you don't get a good grade. Overall 7B wasn't too bad.

Coming from LS7A. This class was a bit clearer than the previous, and this has to do with both the condensed number of assignments (1 vs 2 reading guides per week, but same number and structure of weekly quizzes) and this professor's more straightforward teaching style. I really appreciated how accessible this professor was - her office hours were right before or after class, and she was patient enough to draw out some diagrams and explain some ideas I wasn't familiar with when I asked her about my confusions. Her frank walkthroughs of how to read graphs on the slides and how to do PEQs also helped greatly on the exam.

7B is just 7A 2.0, but the individual phase of the midterms and final were in person (20 questions). I don't think I have much to say about 7B in general; it's genetics (weeks 1-3), evolution (weeks 4-7), and ecology (weeks 8-10, actually i forgot the exact weeks). I personally enjoyed 7A more, but that's just personal preference. The material itself isn't difficult, and with some prior knowledge most people should do fine in this class.

Professor Kane is a great professor, she explains things clearly and is willing to help her students (although I haven't been to her office hours since I had class at that time). So if you're looking for a good prof, Kane is a great choice.

Professor Kane is a gem. I hate the LS7 series so much, but having Kane makes all the difference. She was always willing to help, and most importantly, willing to admit when questions were written poorly. The content in this course is ridiculously easy, and we had high class averages for exams.

Easy class overall, though exams are graded a bit harshly to make up for it. Exams are based purely on lecture and slides. Dr. Kane clearly cares a lot about both the topic and the well being of her students, which made it a very enjoyable class!