While the concept of dinosaurs seems cool in general, I found this class to be extremely tedious and boring after a while. There also is a lot of memorize if this class were in person. For an online GE that will not stress you out much, it is not a bad choice. I did not really do the readings and I stopped attending lecture and I ended up in the A range of things. She is an extremely sweet professor but after seven weeks of extremely condensed information on dinosaurs and evolution, I reached my breaking point and could not go to class any further.
As classes become more in person, however, I think this is a way harder class than most are making it out to be. The labs are quite long and the information you need to memorize is very hype specific and dull. For a pass/no pass class, it is very manageable though.

Took this during COVID19 and hands down was the easiest class I had. Relatively, I did not have to study that much and was able to just skim the lecture and powerpoint slides the prof posted during both the midterm and final.

If you are looking for an easy GE, this is it.

Professor Brown is awesome! She just got her PhD so she's new and very young, which is pretty refreshing in a tough class like EEB 111. Her slides were very easy to understand and she made class engaging. She often ended class early because she went through her slides pretty fast, which would be my only complaint about her if you're a slow notetaker. I would definitely take classes with her again.

Dr. Brown is an absolutely brilliant woman. There are few dinosaurs in this class, but it was still one of the most interesting and well-structured classes I've ever taken at UCLA. There are no curveballs on exams—everything you expect to be on them will be on them. The labs are super cool because you get to hold actual fossils!

Take this class!

Professor Brown is a great professor. She just got her PhD in a mammalogy field so you can tell she is passionate about the subject. I loved her lectures, she put in gifs, and made the material relatable. Everything she tests on is on the slides, and the tests are pretty straightforward if you study, although it can be dense sometimes. Her labs were pretty hard because you have to ID skulls of mammals that can all look pretty similar. My advice is to make a powerpoint for yourself with pics of each skull from all angles and descriptions of each skull in the speaker notes so you can practice IDing skulls at home. My only issue with her is she speaks really quickly, so either learn to type really quickly or record her lectures because they are not podcasted. Overall love her though! I would definitely recommend her as a professor.

Cool class, cool professor, easy GE. If you attend the lectures (which are pretty fun and interesting) and pay attention, it should be pretty easy. The labs are super easy too, if you don't know something you can just ask the TA and they pretty much tell you the answer. The class averages were always above 90%. If you do the readings and use the study guide, you should do well on the midterm and final. I stopped doing the readings after the midterm and still managed to get a 97% on the final. I would say the most important part is to attend lecture, as the slides don't have any words on them so you can't understand them if you missed the lecture. If you do that, it should be an easy A.

Lectures had a ton of information to know but a review guide is given for both the midterm and the final. Students this year collaborated to finish the guide together which helped everyone study. Midterm was multiple choice and a few short answers while the final was entirely multiple choice. As long as you study the information it shouldn't be that bad. The lab for this class was scheduled to be around two hours but if you work with people to get the work done early you can leave early as well. Labs were every week and the lowest score could be replaced with a museum trip.

At a first glance this class might seem like an easy A but it definitely does require more work than anticipated. Professor Brown is engaging during her lectures and makes the content enjoyable to learn, but she does tend to rush through her slides a bit. The labs were very hands-on and pretty cool as well; every week you complete a packet with questions about fossils that you examine. We had a small project due in lab towards the end of the quarter but it was simple. The weekly online quizzes were not bad and you can retake them as many times as you want. The midterm was mostly multiple choice and a few short answer questions while the final was entirely multiple choice. Brown provides study guides for both and I found them to be pretty useful. I would recommend this class to anyone looking for an interesting GE, but be ready to put in the effort.

While it's true that this GE isn't quite as easy as it once was (no longer a guaranteed A now), it still shouldn't be that hard to get an A as long as you are reasonably keeping on top of things, or aren't falling too far behind. Professor Brown's lectures I ended up not going to after the midterm, because she posts all the slides online and everything is straight from the slides. One caveat, however, is guest lectures, as they don't post the guest lecture slides online so it's still a good idea to go to those. She talks pretty fast but pretty clearly during lecture, and answers questions quite effectively.
In labs, there were 7 for us this quarter. Labs were pretty fun, as you could work with a group (if you chose to do so), and you complete a packet while you look at fossils. Some TAs are more strict about lab grades than others; my TA, Erik Weidner, was pretty awesome in that he basically said "I'm here if you want all the right answers". If you were stuck on a problem, don't be afraid to ask your TA, especially since they don't expect you to become a world class paleontologist on the first day. As the labs go by, you start getting faster and more familiar with the packet, and start leaving the labs earlier and earlier. There is one group lab, where you work together to recreate a Jurassic environment (Solnhofen Limestone), and it seems every group in my lab section got an A for that one (just be creative, there were things from dioramas to baseball cards to posters).
We had two exams, one midterm and one final. The midterm consisted of 39 multiple choice and 11 points worth of short answer, and honestly it wasn't that bad (provided you do the readings and were somewhat staying on top of things). The final consisted of just 70 multiple choice questions, and that wasn't half bad (although the average was around 52/70, but the class has a slight curve, so you're alright). I will say however that the grades took so long for our TA to upload. We didn't get the midterm short answer grade until AFTER taking the final exam, while the final exam grades came in literally around the last hours of the deadline.
In terms of grading, your grade consisted of 10% weekly online quizzes (CCLE based), 25% labs, 30% midterm, and 35% final. The weekly online quizzes should be guaranteed points, as they're based on the reading and you have UNLIMITED attempts (taking the highest score). Take them seriously though, as some of those problems do show up on the final exam/midterm. Also, there were two extra credit opportunities for us this quarter, with one being to test out a paleontology themed board game, and the second was completing a trip by going to the NHM (natural history museum of LA county), with both providing the opportunity to replace your lowest lab grade with 100/100. I'd say that overall, this class can be interesting (I found the section on T-Rex particularly so), and with a small amount of work, you should be able to get an A too.