Professor Thomasson seems like a really nice person, but her lectures were SO disorganized. It was really, really difficult to follow. She was not in person and her lectures were all on zoom which made it even more confusing. However, she made her exam very fair and pretty easy which I appreciate.

Despite all the negative reviews, Dr. Thomasson was a decent professor. Although teaching remote, she was extremely accessible out of class and a very caring lady. Lectures weren't bad, at times she stumbled on her own words, but office hours were AMAZING. No practice exam, but quizzes were easy, and midterm was easy too. UTILIZE HER OH to get an A

Why on earth would you expect the students to go in person when you're on zoom??? AND if you don't have enough time to teach all of the material in class, then it shouldn't be on the midterm, not an extra lecture. Continuously misuses vocab terms, making class even more confusing and will circle things rather than actually define them.

She teaches on zoom at UCSB but lives in Davis? There's literally a college you can teach at there... Awful lecturer, terrible organization, left us with no idea of what to focus on. Clears her throat directly into the mic (gross). Crammed 2.5 lectures into a video 3 days before the test. Told us she "isn't a plant expert" but teaches plants. AVOID

I truly hope Kelly reads these reviews and understands that she's not meant to be a lecturer. She simply cannot teach. Lectured through zoom and didn't even have her camera on for the midterm review. The intro bio dept. is a joke. I don't understand why we pay so much to attend a zoom class IN PERSON. Avoid!! Take small section EEMB 3 if you can.

Her lectures are beyond difficult to follow as she starts using terminology without providing any definitions. She puts large diagrams on her slides and will proceed to talk about the diagram for 5 minutes without making annotations on the slide. I have not taken the midterm for her unit yet, but any success on the exam will not be thanks to her.

By far one of the worst professors I have ever had. Extremely unclear lectures in which she throws out jargon without further explanation. Flip flops often. Not to mention, she was on zoom while the rest of us were in the lecture hall. Awful.

Ok first of all why does she teach at ucsb when she lives and works in davis?? Zoom lectures livestreamed into the lecture hall was weird but ok? On top of that her lectures were beyond confusing, she would throw a bunch of terms at us and then not explain what any of them meant. Weird and pointless to go to lecture just read the book.

Genuinely terrible experience, she won't even show up to the lecture and does it on zoom (why i put that this is an online course). I have never experienced a more incomprehensible lecture because of how many terms she just pulls out of nowhere and references without even explaining. Im praying for my entire cohort of students

Pretty good professor, really nice and knowledgeable. Explains concepts well. Exams are pretty difficult but the quizzes are really helpful.

Way better than MCDB 6, but still be prepared to memorize key terms and important concepts. Watch the videos and then test yourself on the material, go to her office hours to clear up confusing topics. Doable compared to Low.

Thomasson is just a really disorganized professor. The lecture slides are not very clear and it is really hard to follow what she is saying at times. Thankfully, she knows that we just had come from MCDB6 and made it clear to us that she would make this course way easier, which she did. Tests are super simple and curved heavily.

She was awesome and very responsive to emails. Although she expects you study off relying on slides and not a study guide

Okay Thomasson isn't THAT bad. It is true she often didn't explain well in her lecture videos, but I attended OH and cleared things up with her during that time. Watch her review session OH because she gives hints of what the tests will be on. Her tests are easy and ask basic questions. Quizzes often had unclear wording. She curved tests a lot.

Not an ideal professor. If there's another option, I would take them. Tests are often difficult and unclear, going beyond material covered in lecture. Doesn't give any practice exams and is very slow to respond to emails. Lectures are disorganized and doesn't go into enough detail. Didn't even show up to our second midterm. L prof hired by L uni.

Worst prof I've ever had. We didn't have class, she would just post awful lectures where you can't ask questions. Got a good grade but had to study more than any other class ever. She says wrong information and corrects herself almost every sentence. Her tests are horrible and are not worded in a way that is fair. She gives nothing to help you.

This was her first quarter with flipped class, and I hope she continues it. You watch the factual content on your own time: maximum of two hours of videos a week, and live lectures Tuesday morning. Get the book, and read it each week, the tests are truly quite fair and aren't that nitty-gritty, especially compared to MCDB 6. I really liked her!

Almost impossible to reach by email. Every exam we have had so far has errors and she often grades incorrectly. The class is pretty much now run by her TA's who are great, but they are only expected to know about the lab portion of the course and cannot help with a lot of the lecture/exam content. Only positive is that she offers extra credit.

Worst class I have ever taken at UCSB. Lectures are long, she has no motivation to teach, hard to get a hold of for office hours. Makes exams extremely difficult, provided example problems two days before exam. Not helpful at all.

Probably the worst professor I've ever had. Completely disorganized and uncommunicative. She gives no information/review on tests and her lectures don't cover half the stuff on assignments. Misspelled and unfinished questions on tests and quizzes, poor writing, typos and terminology errors. Wouldn't recommend.

I really enjoyed this course, the material is difficult to grasp so I highly suggest going to office hours. She go over things in detail in office hours and helps with any questions you don't understand from the assignments/quizzes.

I SWEAR THIS CLASS... Lectures are way too dense with an unclear expectation of what we need to know... NO practice final or other resources AND poorly written quizzes. AVOID AVOID AVOID. clearly passionate but i just wish she knew how to teach or had a better plan for the structure of this class. very upsetting :(

Ridiculous amount of material that she barely goes over. Impossible to actually retain anything from lecture as most of her slides are messy and the most unorganized I've ever seen. Most of the content she teaches feel like fun facts, becomes stupidly easy to lose focus on what might actually be important.

haven't even taken the exam yet but her lectures are so poorly organized that i can't study. i want to like her because she seems to enjoy the material she is teaching, but wow