AO SCI 1 is an extremely interesting class. Hell, if Ulli Seibt managed to make the class somewhat engaging then I think that means the content of this course is good. However, this class is extremely poorly structured and I would not recommend taking it with Ulli Seibt. For starters, she is extremely disorganized and has changed the syllabus multiple times throughout the quarter. Moreover, her lectures and slide deck are inaccurate to the content of the exam, and I now understand why there are so little people taking this class this quarter. The only positive thing I could say about this professor is that she gives extra credit for iClickers, other than that I would say to take AOS1, so long as it is not with Ulli Seibt.

While the course material is very interesting, Seibt's lectures are not that interesting, because she isn't very engaging with her slides. I liked her assignments and her projects, and thought I learned a lot from those. She offers clicker points for extra credit (~5%). Her exams are all free response, and timing is never an issue on them. I believe she is a fair grader. I would take this class again because of a personal interest in climate change, but she is a bland lecturer -- I think the class has so much potential, but maybe take it with a more interesting instructor.

If you need to take a lab solely to knock out that GE requirement, then I HIGHLY recommend this lab for you. It has a super light workload and is ridiculously easy. It's only one unit, but has no lecture/midterm/final. Only a few online assignments that allow you to work with a partner, further lessening your workload. You simply do some online research for these assignments.

Firstly, I want to state that I liked the material. I took her course A&OSci 1 and it exposed me to things I didn't know before.

Secondly, I liked that she is friendly during office hours and that she wants her students to learn the concepts.

Overall one of the best courses I have had because it was enjoyable and because Professor Seibt taught it.

An average professor. Hard to not doze off in her lectures, so make sure you go to discussions. Final is a bit harder than the midterm, but still doable.

I took AOS 1 with Professor Seibt in Spring 2015. I have several opinions regarding the class structure and the professor.

First, the class material was relatively easily. We studied things like the greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, atmospheric and ocean circulation, ice ages, the IPCC, and other typical environmental topics. I enjoyed the material but I have heard other students say that it was tedious and at times difficult to comprehend (such as the Coriolis effect). The only thing I really despised was that the material was never really set. The professor gave us a tentative syllabus at the beginning and we did not discuss half the topics listed on it.

Second, grading is pretty fair and yet confusing simultaneously. The structure was 30% midterm, 45% final, 25% homework. We used the infamous and costly iClicker 2. The iClicker questions are graded 50/50. 50% comes from answering 75% of the questions in class, whether you answer correctly or incorrectly. The other 50% of the clicker points comes from answering "quiz" questions. She said that iClicker could replace half of the midterm score, and I assumed she did so. However, there is no set grading scale so I do not know if the class was curved or not. I believe it was considering the averages on the exams, though.

Side note...
Averages for exams:
Midterm 83%
Final 62% (I have no idea why this was so low considering she gave us two days of review...)

Third, I think the biggest thing I realized disliked about Professor Seibt was how disorganized she was. The syllabus was not really clear in grading nor content and I feel like the homework assignments were drawn up last minute.

Also, I took the lab, and some of the assignments were just plain silly. The last lab was to write a review of the class. The labs were not hard, but just seemed like mundane assignments that didn't really teach me much. Another lab had us "google" what soil erosion was and write a half-page summary. I honestly wish the labs were thought of much better.

Overall, the class was not too hard. The professor is extremely friendly and approachable in office hours, but she is extremely disorganized. Professor Seibt will also try to make class fun and engage students which makes class better.

Final Grade: B+
Lab Grade: A

I felt this class lacked structure and organization. The lectures were also very boring and she did not make her points clear; it was difficult to follow her throughout the slides. Your discussion and its helpfulness depends widely on your TA; mine unfortunately was also not a great teacher and I had to seek extra help and tutoring from another TA to finally feel like I was understanding the material. My original TA was so ineffective that I ultimately stopped showing up to discussion after week 4 (your attendance does not count towards your grade and is only useful for forming your initial homework groups). The homework assignments we did get were not helpful in reinforcing what we were learning in the class. I would not take another class with this professor.

Professor Seibt was honestly a really funny professor and she must produce some amazing research because she really does not know how to run a class. During the first day of lecture she literally had nothing planned and was curious of the things we wanted to learn that quarter. I never even had a high school teacher that asked such questions. As much as she was funny, the class was very disorganized and the TA's reflected her disorganization. Luckily, the class was pretty easy and she gave us up to 5% extra credit, but the grading made absolutely no sense. Neither Professor Seibt or the TA's had a clear sense of what they wanted to see on the midterm or final. However, I would recommend this class for those who want to take a family easy GE while having a good laugh in lecture just due to her German bluntness with people.

I took this course spring quarter of 2020 online. Although I ended up with an A, I felt confused through the majority of the course. Professor Ulrike is clearly knowledgable on the content but I do feel like she has trouble explaining it in an easy way. I am not a science major so most of the material was new and confusing. Due to the online format, there were no midterms or finals which honestly saved my grade. The homeworks are pretty easy to get an A on and my TA was very helpful. I recommend taking the lab since the questions were very easy and short. If you are not a science major like me, make sure to go to discussion because they were more helpful than lecture to me!

This course was a fairly easy GE, professor Seibt provides many opportunities to earn extra credit. There were 4 homework assignments, 4 quizzes, a midterm and a final. The workload was manageable and the assessments were fair (the midterm had an average of 90 while the final was harder - an average of 75). The lectures were engaging and I was excited to come to class and learn about a prevalent. Overall I recommended this course, it is fair and the professor clearly cares about the subject matter.