I'm taking Geography 7 this quarter with Professor Sheng and the class isn't too bad. My advice is to go to the TA's office hours for doing your labs, they are really helpful. I attended lecture but by the end of the quarter I realized I always just took notes on his powerpoints( which he basically read out loud) but his accent is very thick and hard to understand. If you actually look over his slides and study for the midterm, its super easy. Just basically memorization of info (raster vs. vector data, definition of GIS etc.)

Professor Sheng is my least favorite professor I have taken at UCLA. He turned a course that was supposed to be on Geographic Information Systems (which is about interpreting geographical data to solve real-world problems) into a course on cartography (different types of map projections, how to stylize a map legend, etc.) He spent a lot of time in lecture covering new terms and vocabulary, none of which we ever applied to anything other than test questions. In fact, I found his tests to be more about memorization of terms that about any sort of understanding of the purpose of GIS. I am glad that the reviewer below found his class engaging and enlightening. That was simply not my experience.

Course structure: Labs every week (with ArcGIS software after week 4) are 30% of your grade. Patrick is an awesome TA and will help you with anything you do not understand about the software.
Midterm and Final are each worth 35% of your grade and are administered during lab on weeks 5 and 10. No lectures are held those weeks.
Sheng is good as a lecturer and it takes (at least for me it did) about a week to get used to his accent. He is very knowledge and wants everyone to learn as much as they can. He is deeply passionate about the material.