Horrible experience. She is rude and creates a hostile learning environment. She is very condescending; she made inappropriate jokes about me personally when I simply forgot my ID for an exam. Her lectures are confusing and she offers zero support. You are basically on your own teaching yourself while dealing with her disrespect. JUST AVOID HER！！！！

Dr. Azarenko is a really bad lecturer. Her lecture is poorly organized so self study matters. She asked us to memorize a lot of things but she just randomly picked some very specific terms in the exams, which means that your exam scores depend on luck ( I did bad at the 1st one but got a super high score for the 2nd one). Avoid.

I was wary because of her low rating, but she's actually great. She can ramble a bit, and I find her material structure to be odd for me, but I think she explains concepts fairly well and can be funny sometimes. Lectures use iClicker, but you can miss 3 no penalty. Weekly quizzes you can take twice and she gives a practice one thats pretty similar.

Explains content well and is very helpful in office hours.

Very willing to help clarify any concepts. Talking to her after class and at office hours were helpful. I enjoyed her lectures and she thoroughly explained each concept pretty well. Tests were fair I recommend reading the textbook and doing the practice problems.

Professor Olga is really passionate about what she teaches. The class is lecture and exam heavy, but the lectures and textbook do contain the material needed to do well. The class is difficult within itself, but the weekly online quizzes and paying attention in lectures will help you succeed.

Olga provided all of the information necessary to do well in the class. This is objectively a difficult, heavy course, but she was very personable and passionate and did a very good job at making it digestible. People are hating on her because they're bitter about their grade or about her being a baddie woman scientist, but I love her.

I witnessed a young woman in front of me today being verbally harassed by Olga today. She was crying because of the way Olga was talking to her and she was telling her to stop crying, no compassion, borderline evil woman.

Olga is a diva, and knows her stuff!! She is very respected and knows what she's talking about. It is truly the effort you're willing to put in.

To be blunt, she is not a good teacher. Our class average for the final was 58%, she does not curve at all and there's no extra credit. Barely any assignments so your grade relies on the exams which are really hard. She is dismissive and rude-I can't even ask her a questions without her having an attitude.

I think Professor Azarenko is overqualified for this job!! She is very educated about this subject and she does a great job of explaining the material. This class does take a lot of effort outside of class, such as reading the textbook, but her quizzes and midterms were pretty straightforward and can get a pretty decent grade from simple effort.

She doesn't care about her students and is disrespectful, she will call students out for being late to class or for having to leave early. This is college not high school.

Prof Azarenko is not accommodating or caring whatsoever. The lecture times are horrible, geolocation iClicker is mandatory, and she will call you out in front of the whole lecture if you, for whatever reason, need to leave early. Exams make up almost 80% of your final grade. Lots of dense readings that are essential to doing well on said exams.

Not sure why there are so many negative comments! She's sassy, but in a lighthearted way. It's a biology course- material is dense regardless of professor. She provides a lot of resources like practice quizzes, wkly study guides, a quizlet, review sessions I did well on midterm by reading pgs before class & using flashcards, u'll be fine.

A lot of students hated her for her blunt personality, and while she may definitely be a bit blunt it honestly didn't hinder my learning at all. Lectures are mandotory but helpful and make sure you read the textbook. You'll definitely have to put the work in but the class shouldn't be impossible, especially if you already have some background

3/10 difficulty midterm (average was 85+), 4/10 final combined with 20 points of extra credit for just showing up to class (class was out of 300 total). Not a super clear lecturer but material is straightforward and unconfusing so it didn't matter. Almost all exam questions were dumbed down compared to lecture/textbook so youll be overpreppared.

everyone i knew in the class rly seemed to hate it but it honestly wasnt that bad, biology is just hard. i wouldnt say theres anything about this prof specifically that made the class harder than it needed to be. to be fair, i did take AP bio which is basically the exact same class, and i can imagine it would be much harder if i hadnt

DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THE POOR REVIEWS. Language barrier led to misunderstandings sometimes, but they were always resolved. Overall the class is fair. Made a Quizlet for each recorded lecture to memorize all of the info & that worked well for me. Used the TB to understand information that wasn't thoroughly explained in lecture.

everyone is bashing on Azarenko because she can be a bit rude at times like blaming us for tech issues, but she is really passionate about the subject and curved even tho the avg was 80% for the class. You can do well, just read textbook, pay attention during lecture, and know iclicker questions well

She's a great professor if you can get past her blunt personality. Her lectures are straightforward, and she explains topics well. Exams are based solely on lectures, and she offers extra credit for attending lectures. The course was also curved even though the average was 80. She makes a tough course manageable if you study the lecture material.

Unprofessional with blaming students for technological issues they are not responsible for with iClicker, and purposely made the second midterm more difficult after seeing students did "too well" on the first one. proceeded to put a couple questions on the second exam we had never encountered before. she is clearly passionate but wouldnt recommend

This is by far the worst professor I've had at UCSB. The material is taught entirely out of order, she makes everything extremely difficult to understand, and she overall doesn't care for students in general. She is also extremely inaccessible no matter how many times you try to email her. Dont take her do everything you can to avoid her class

she is definitely very blunt. i wouldn't say she is overly difficult, the class itself is hard so the tests are not going to be easy. yes, she did include a single question on the exam that wasn't covered before, but people are being overly critical. she is a good lecturer. if you study you'll be fine, read the book and do the practice quizzes!

During of first midterm, most ppl finished within 30-45 minutes. She noticed this and said that the next midterm would be harder because this one was too easy. She included material we had not covered prior to the exam in our 2nd midterm. She is clearly passionate about the subject and has explained things well but doesn't want students to succeed