Todd is a great lecturer and the midterms are fair but the lab portion of the class ruins it. the TAs my quarter were pretty unorganized and overall unhelpful. my class ended up scoring astoundingly low on the practical so they dropped the first one. it'd be easier to focus on Todd's lectures without chaos of the lab section.

Lab portion is amazing.

Invert Zoology was a really fun and interesting class, but you have to work and memorize a lot of really tricky taxonomy. He likes lecturing about stuff that he personally finds interesting, so hes not boring. His lecture slides are helpful so you can miss a few classes and still get sufficient info. Nice guy, easy to talk to!

One of my favorite teachers at UCSB. He's funny, laid back, and easy to talk to. The class is challenging but definitly do-able. Recomend for those interested in inverts and those interested in ecology. Text book is not really used, so go to lecture!

Overall the class is easy but it's extremely boring and hard to follow because of this. The concepts were relatively simple to follow, but often explained in abstract ways. I wouldn't recommend this EEMB class unless you are interested in evolution. I really disliked my TA as well, he was a complete know it all and his review session was terrible.

I really enjoyed this class, and Todd was a solid lecturer. It's clear he's super interested in what he's teaching and that transferred into the material, which was already interesting. The first midterm was kind of rough, but he was very supportive in helping me understand how to do better going forward. The TAs were also very nice and helpful.