Professor Gardner truly cares about her students, even though it was her first time teaching in Spring 2020. Her lectures are clear and concise and the exams correlate to her material in class. There are two midterms and the quizzes greatly help in preparing for the midterms. She wants students to succeed and gives them the proper resources.

Professor Gardner is amazing. She gives great lectures and is very clear about what she expects you to take away from her lectures. The exams are free response and require you to synthesize answers using what you've learned in class (some questions can get pretty difficult). She is very helpful in office hours and wants her students to succeed.

I wasn't too excited for 101A but Richardson really cares about his students. He put out weekly problem sets and his lectures were long but he explained things well. Tests are hard but very reasonable. I did not use the textbook.

I was definitely not looking forward to taking 101a since I heard it was pretty hard and genetics was already a tough subject for me but Prof Richardson made the class really easy to follow along. His lectures+problem sets are really all you need to know and the readings helped at times too. Lectures are very organized which I really appreciated.

Richardson is a nice guy. New professor so lectures felt a little messy. Focus primarily on problem sets, they are nearly identical to the exam. He was very very generous with grading. Dropped one midterm or made the final weigh less if it helped. No minus grades and all cutoffs for a regular grade were below cut off for a minus (87 for an A, etc.)

I think Prof Richardson is one of the best genetics professors at UCSB. He's very approachable and is accessible outside of class during office hours and one-on-one zoom calls for students that need extra help. This is a tough class so the lectures can be long and dense. TA discussion sections are super helpful.

Prof Richardson provided so many opportunities to succeed in this class. He's nice and always willing to help during office hours. Provides many examples related to complex concepts. Long but useful lectures, even added supplemental lectures which were helpful. Tests were difficult but definitely fair game. Do the practice probs and you'll be good.

He teaches like a graduate level professor. His lectures are very dense and he does a poor job of talking through concepts. Some of the questions and practice problem sets on midterms were poorly worded and even the TA was confused. I would highly recommend taking another professor's class if possible.

Richardson was a solid choice for genetics. I think it might be his first time teaching here, so he's still getting the hang of it. But the effort that he put in to make the course as clear and smooth as possible is obvious. Lectures were easy to understand, tests were fair, and he made himself accessible and very helpful outside of class.