Seminar for first year pre-biology students. Active learning enhancement via topics exploring students' self-identifying themselves as scientists, conversation on careers within the sciences and health professions, and discussion regarding the research process in order spark motivation and questions.
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UnitsPass no pass
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeLower division only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeHe's a good guy but makes doesn't seem to double check his exams before writing them.
Professor Gonzalez is a very nice person. However his midterm is not so much related to his lecture and is extremely hard.
Do not take Lalo unless you absolutely have to. His lectures are SO hard to follow and I often leave lecture even more confused than before I went. I understand major classes like these require a lot of outside work, but If I'm not even understanding the basics of the material during the lecture, how am I expected to succeed in this class at all?
The people in these comments are doing Lalo SOOO dirty. He is genuinely one of the best professors at UCSB. Him and Mike are the perfect duo and I wish they taught every single class in this school. If you get a bad grade, that means you didn't put in the work since they gave us all the resources to do amazing. Stop hating and start working!
Professor Gonzalez is the worst professor I have ever had at UCSB. His lecturing makes everything confusing and often feel so lost. He does iClickers daily, two midterms and a cumulative final. Other online videos have been my best friend. He also makes snarky remarks weekly about how we should know this stuff and it will be on the exams.
His exams are always ridiculously difficult and he’ll often test details from the lecture sides that he doesn’t even get to sometimes. If you want to pass the class, you better read the textbook instead bc his lectures are nearly impossible to follow unless you are already like 80% of the content.
