This class is an allegory to people thinking that biology courses are memorization and not learning anything. This class is the epitome of how much you have to study for biology courses and not learn anything. Like someone else said, the only reason to take this series is because of Dr. Lew. He is leaving so hopefully better professor steps up.

This class is straight memorization. Cooper just reads off the slide and expects u to know it. We prob. went through 60 slides/lecture. TONS of info, not very engaging. I recommend going through the lecture slides after class and rewriting everything again. I also read the book bc it's basically the slides. Coop is helpful if you go to office hrs

By far the worst professor I have ever had at UCSB. Makes you memorize useless information, and you don't come out learning anything. He simply reads off his already terrible slides. Makes me almost rethink taking this series. The only reason i would do the series again is because of Dr. Lew.

Really bad. You come from the preceding biochemistry courses beginning to understand logic behind the driving forces of chemistry in biological systems and then come to final class of series into a lower-division level or even high school level teaching,memorization dump of a class. Lecture is useless but required cause of clicker and slides stink.

Wish I hadn't taken this course concurrently with mcdb 133. There was so much lab material that didn't connect to lecture but tested on both. Information overload. Would have done better if I had taken course next Fall tat way I'd have a solid understanding. Also TAs and Prof weren't helpful so it was a lot of material to learn by myself.

The class is hard and the lectures are useless to go to, he reads off the slides which come right out of the book! Supposed to be a "concepts" class but the exams were crazy hard and detailed. Interesting topics but I barely passed because of the exams. He seems apathetic about teaching undergrads. Talked about his dead wife so I felt bad for him.