Bruv this class SLAPS. No honestly one of the most underrated Life Science GEs a UCLA student can take. The grading scheme was equally divided into 20% for all of the following: Participation, Self-monitoring (I'll explain below), Midterm, Final, Final Paper.

This is a class that teaches you to become a better person, whether more productive, more mindful, more appreciative, the list goes on. Every week Professor Korb gives you these "interventions", and you complete them on your own time and then evaluate how you feel on a Google Form. This constitutes the "self-monitoring" grade. Then, at the end of each week, you write up a 1-page log. At the end of the quarter, you'll have a 6-10 page double-spaced paper which is actually not too hard.

As for the lectures, go to them and do the readings! Now, for non-LS majors, neuroscience may sound difficult but the material is actually quite easy and stripped down so don't worry!

I am selling all my comprehensive notes (with each lecture and reading) for $15. My notes contain bolded keywords and concepts and detailed drawings, and they definitely helped me get an A+. Text me at 7149870551 if you're interested.

I enjoyed this class with Professor Korb. His lectures are straightforward and recorded. I didn't enjoy going to discussion section, but I did have a very nice TA who was helpful. The tests for this class aren't hard especially with the open notes. Every week you have to submit a log about your intervention for the week. These are easy points. There is also a final paper, but it's all information from your previous weeks' logs so it isn't very hard. I didn't read the actual textbook, and I did just fine going to lecture. I would recommend this class as a nice GE to learn about neuroscience.

I took this class during the 2020 pandemic and it was online.

That being said, Dr. Korb is an excellent lecturer (really engaging and entertaining), and the material of this class is very interesting. I definitely recommend this class to anyone, but you'll definitely get something extra out of it if you're going through a hard time (like I was).

Grading is super fair. Distributed between 20% for participation, midterm, final, a paper, and then weekly logs (basically short papers) you turn in.

My only issues with this class are...

A) The tests seem to be much more difficult and precise than the Prof. lets on the lectures. In the lectures, Dr. Korb will use fun examples to demonstrate neuroscience concepts while some of the questions on the tests were ridiculously confusing and technical compared to the material he presented. I got a 70% on the midterm... I legitimately don't remember the last time I got a grade that low on a test (I take easy classes so its not a flex), but I ended up with an A in the class so its all good (study for the final!!!) However this discrepancy could've been an intentional adjustment due to the class being online.

B) While the workload isn't super serious, it isn't particularly light. Remembering to record your "wellbeing" data on a semi-daily basis (effects participation grade) sounds easy but is super easy to forget. Start slipping up and your grade will hurt. Same goes for the weekly "logs" (usually will have to be about a page and half and well thought out). Also this class requires you to constantly change small aspects of your lifestyle (working out, meditating, writing letters to other people etc.), and while you can BS it and just say you did the interventions in your logs even though you didn't, the papers (and the class) go smoother if you actually take the time to do them.

This class is definitely interesting and worthwhile, and probably one of the easier science GE's. As a North Campus major I'd recommend it for sure.

Such a great class! its an easy A, I was just being a bad student at the time lol. weekly homework consists of readings and then little experiments you do with yourself and then you write up an analysis of it. you learn about all the positive effects of physical and mental exercises and pretty much most of what you learn you can apply to your real life. I recommend this class to everyone! You do not have to be a science person whatsoever. Dr Korb is also hilarious and a great lecturer; we use the book he wrote for the class.

Pretty straightforward and easy class about the psychology of personal wellness and your daily routine. The final grade is comprised of (20% each): section participation, midterm, final, final paper, and weekly write-ups of experiments you do.
The experiments involve doing one activity a few days a week (e.g. yoga or meditating) and at the end of the week you write about how it affected you each day. The final paper covers the way that a few of your experiments affected you and the rest of the class, and how this is backed up by scientific research.
Prof Korb posts all of his slides so attendance isn't mandatory, and most of the assigned readings are covered in lecture/section (I didn't buy any of the books). The midterm and final were based on the slides and to a lesser extent the readings, and the final wasn't cumulative. Overall an interesting and low-stress class, I'm glad I took it.

This class is so useful and it doesn't feel life science-y in the traditional sense. There's some technical neuroscience about macroscopic brain regions and a few neurotransmitters but that info gets repeated so many times during the quarter in different contexts that its not hard to know by the final.

This class can be time consuming because there;s weekly interventions. i took it awhile ago so i dont remember all the details, but we had an umbrella topic weekly like "exercise" or "sleep" and within that topic, i think we could choose any intervention we wanted to so long as it related. So for "exercise", we could do "exercise 30 minutes each day for 3 days and don't exercise for 3 days". The interventions started out telling us what to do exactly and then as the weeks go by, you get more leeway to design your own intervnetions, and by about week 7 we got to pick out own umbrella topic and intervention.

It's busy though cuz we had to record everything in an app for everyday of the quarter almost cuz we do the interventions 6/7 days a week for 9-10 weeks. It's a lot but once i put it all on paper, it was easy to see how things like exercise affected my mood or sleep and what impacts what else.

Korb gives some cool lectures too! he tells memorable stories about topics that impact mental health. Just pay attention deeply in lecture and the exams are easy. Class is really useful for life skills. the title pretty much does it justice.

What a great class

Take this class!! Get the Upward Spiral book. Go for lectures cause they're the best part of the class.

Pretty easy and a nice professor. He does ramble in his lectures sometimes which can get a bit boring.

This is the type of class you expect to come into when you enter college. Korb is a very nice guy and right off the bat you can tell that he cares about his students. He isn't just teaching information for you to memorize. He's teaching relatively simple concepts that you can apply to your own life. He is by far my favorite professor I've had so far at UCLA.