This class is ok. Nothing much has changed from the previous reviews. The textbook we get our information from is repetitive and extremely complex in some parts but glosses over key concepts in others. Professor Heber's lectures are similar because he will make his lecture slides close to 80-100 slides per session full of graphs and repeating material. I took this class during Covid-19, so the tests and assignments were all in open-book online essay format, which might be the only reason why I did well. Overall, the concepts of material itself is straightforward and fun, but there are many details we are expected to know, it's more like we're memorizing the textbook. This class could be fun if you truly cared about nutrition and research on nutrition and are willing to devote hours to memorizing and understanding the molecular basis of every single component that we consume- Professor Heber is definitely very knowledgeable. But to everyone else, it's a pretty time-consuming, albeit boring class that'll get you an ok grade.

This class was both easy and hard. It was easy in that it’s low time commitment, you only have one midterm and one easy two page paper, and the exams are all multiple choice. It was hard because you really had to know so many details. It’s not enough to know general concepts, you have to remember details about the concepts. It’s annoying that they don’t post slides and they don’t bruincast the class. I think this class was curved upward though because by the end of the quarter I had an 88% and I got an A minus. The paper is easy to get full credit, just follow all the guidelines.

Took this class Winter 2013 after hearing it was a ridiculously easy class. Learned that it is only "easy" because minimal work is involved and attendance is not necessary, but the tests themselves are fairly tricky. Yes, the material is straightfoward, all you do is read the course reader but it contains a lot of details and I found his tests to focus on very small subtleties in the text. While lectures are entertaining, if you wanted to actually improve your grade the lectures themselves are not really helpful since he does not test on the lecture material! So unless you memorize every single little word, number, and detail in the course reader, the class is actually annoyingly tricky and unorganized.

Had Professor Heber for physci 167 during winter 2013 as a biochem major.

If you did well in your other premed classes, you're probably really good at memorizing. That's what this class is: memorizing the course reader. One midterm, one 2 page written assignment, and one final determines your grade. There is no curve, but the grading scale for the class is lowered (>89.5% is an A).

If you actually attend the lectures, you'll learn something useful. Pretty interesting material, but most people didn't attend despite the "mandatory attendance" that was just a sign in sheet being passed around at most lectures.

Haven't finished the course yet, but so far, really easy class if you are a phy sci major. It's tends to be a pretty large class (>200 people), since a lot of people have heard it's easy (but from my experience, non-majors don't seem to sing the same song, so just be wary). I'm probably only an "average" student in the phy sci major, and yet I was still able to pull an A on the midterm, after only having studied at ten the night before the exam. I went to most of the lectures, because they take attendance, but barely ever took notes. If you've taken most of your phy sci core classes, you've learned most of this course's material before. There are only four components to your grade (attendance, midterm, self-assessment paper, final), and both exams are multiple choice. Overall, easy class if you're in the major. If you're not, don't be so easily convinced that it's necessarily one of the "easiest" upper divs.

I really enjoyed taking this class! I feel this class is exactly how a college course should be structured. Attendance is not mandatory and they don't give you bullshit assignments to waste your time. If you are truely interested in learning this material you will read the course reader and do well. This is definetely one of the easiest classes i have taken at UCLA, probably because Dr. Heber is an amazing lecturer and the material is so straight forward. I showed up to all of the lectures, because i really enjoyed the material. I definetely recommend this class to anyone going into the medical field.

Who said this class is easy? This class is a lot of memorizing and understanding of the course reader. It is hard to study this all in one night before the midterm and final. Also this class is straight scale so you really can't miss many questions. After taking this class I will never take another upper division biology class at UCLA again.

Not a hard class. But because it is multiple choice and straight scale, you can't miss anything, so you have to basically memorize the reader, which is not that long. A lot of non-phy sci majors and community college transfers think this class is hard, to me it was not a hard class. Just make sure you memorize CONCEPTS instead of stupid details.

Who the heck said this class is easy?

This class is chill but there is a lot of material. Many people were thrown off by the midterm which is overall easy, but the basically straight scale grading means that you can't miss many questions. Overall, you just need to study the reader and only the reader. The Final is similar, all multiple choice.