Be prepared to study a lot in the class and the textbook is your holy grail. His tests are extremely difficult with the first midterm having an average of 33%. He is a nice guy but needs to lighten up the difficulty of the questions on the exams. No matter how much you study, there will still be questions you cannot answer at all in 50mins.

Professor Greene has insightful lectures and there are ample opportunities to earn credit besides the exams. The weekly quizzes are a great way to consolidate the dense content in the lectures and I found the exams more than reasonable for the breadth and complexity of content in 142b.

As difficult as this class was, I am glad to have taken it. Prof Greene is rigorous in his instruction yet very knowledgeable about biochem. Use the learning goals he put on Canvas to structure your reading of the textbook. Read the book in depth, at length, and do all practice problems and you will succeed. His office hours are also very helpful.

I don't know why he gets such a bad rep. His tests are definitely hard but he really cares about his students and actually listens to feedback. Biochem is just such a dense subject, so get ready to read and be sure to stay on top of it.

Hard class but biochem is a hard subject. Greene is passionate and wants you to really understand the material. Its a lot of stuff to fit in one quarter, so get ready to do a ton of reading. Go to lecture for easy points, stay on track with the readings, and study as much as you can before the exams.

Greene's not the worst professor I've had in the chem department, but that is an extremely low bar. He seems more concerned about proving how smart he is and how tricky he can make his questions, rather than facilitating a good learning environment. His tests are convoluted, long and unclear and he's downright condescending when asked questions.

First midterm average was a 33% LOL. His way of teaching is very unsustainable for students, like assigning lots of tedious work that just doesn't help you actually learn the material. A very fast, monotonous lecturer, you're better memorizing the textbook. We had to learn 2 chapters in 3 days while the test questions were 100% application-based.

Lectures and reading intensive, he does his best to simplify concepts to an extent. He does tend to talk extremely fast but is nice about repeating himself. You need to make sure you're at lectures to get participation points. DO THE READING.

His class essentially doesn't help at all, but you should expect to recite the textbook. Tough exams but not unmanageable. Many exhausting participation points, which I think is very bad design.

I dont know why my mans gets so much slander, taught 142B and 110L. Makes you dig deep into the material and will have challenging test questions, but has generous curve. Overall a nice guy who makes you work with peers.

The exam is super difficult. He tried to improve the level of the class by letting students learn by themselves or drop the class. Not even as caring about students as other biochemistry professors, but you have to take this class anyway if you want to get a degree at UCSB, while he will be your worst enemy to let you get that. DONT TRY THIS CLASS!

Dont know what all the hate is for. Everything is straight out of the book and yeah its challenging buts its a challenging subject. Curves are nice

"The average is a lot lower than I expected, but I'm waiting for the students that lowered the average to drop the class to bring it back to what the average should be. So I'm not going to curve the midterm." -Brandon Greene 3 live lectures, and video lectures, and read the textbook for quizzes before each lecture, still not enough for the test.

During COVID: Live Lectures were mandatory but not useful towards learning. tests during class on topics that you learned on your own the night or 2 before, had quizzes before every lecture. Had offline lectures. Overall, he didn't explain much, left you on your own, and would be disappointed when the class fails as he seemed to hate curving .

If you can do not take 142 series in UCSB.

142A is a tough class in UCSB, he definitely put lots of effort into this class. However, most students still learn everything on themselves by reading the textbook. Dr. Greene is very stubborn, once he decides something (grading and stuff),others' advice is useless. One good thing is that he's very available out of class.

He tried but it was his first time of teaching this class. Midterms and final were long and hard to finish with a short given amount of time. Textbook will be your best friend. But he was still the better option for biochem from chem department. If you are premed, please consider mcdb before taking it.

I definitely shouldnt drop reich and Kahns 142. Even lower avg than Kahn. Very little curve. Curve based on highest score but you should know every class has a few people who can do very well on any test. God bless u if ur section has smart brain. I ended up with learning nothing but understanding his weird wording to pass the test.

He can be another notorious professor. He puts EXTENSIVE work on students and doesn't make informative lectures either. You need to learn everything yourself and maybe learn a little things from his poor lectures by doing some quizzes that assume you already know the materials. Stubborn, not listening to students' advice. Avoid him if you can

Dr. Greene really tries to put in the effort but he absolutely cannot teach. Makes you dread the class no matter how much you love the subject. You will only learn from the textbook and good luck with answering his extremely poorly phrased questions on quizzes, exams, etc. He is also reluctant to listen to constructive student feedback, just awful.