I have quite mixed feelings about this class. Before I begin, let me mention that Professor Pham in an amazing teacher and is very educated on the topics he discusses. However, his flaw is that he stop class too often to answer questions, which causes us to stay later online or have to watch the recordings after class. Who knows, maybe in person class will be different. I believe that the grading system is quite fair, they give you room to miss a couple of points in each category, similar to LS7A. The textbook and launchpads are absolutely useless. The only thing that is worthy of your time is the PEQs and the quizzes in the launchpad. The tests are pretty difficult and wordy, however if you enjoy the subject that might make it slightly easier. The labs are long and mindlessly boring. Overall Pham makes the subject interesting, but it does take a little time and effort. I believe the lectures and clicker questions are most helpful in preparing for the exams.

Professor Pham is GREAT! Throughout the quarter, he was extremely helpful and did a good job explaining clicker questions, concepts etc. He’s an extremely passionate professor and if you have to take this class, I would definitely suggest taking it with him!

My main critique isn’t about Professor Pham, but just the class as a whole. The material (barring genetics) is absolutely uninteresting and launchpad is not helpful and will put you straight to sleep. I stopped reading launchpad about midway through the quarter and didn’t feel like I was missing out whatsoever. Labs are not helpful either, although TA Jalyssa made them a lot more enjoyable (BIG shoutout to her!!). They consist of filling out tedious worksheets that, in some cases, are legitimately at a 7th grade level. The exams were alright in terms of difficulty, but the wording (particularly on the 2nd midterm) was unclear for many questions and made it difficult to demonstrate my understanding of class material.

If you have to take this class, I’d highly suggest taking it with Professor Pham, as his enthusiasm makes this class more bearable.

Professor Pham is a stellar professor, the class itself... not so much. Supposedly this class is the "easiest" of the LS7 series but the tests didn't feel like it was. Even one of the LA's during lab stated that they had no idea why the tests were hard compared to previous years; the wording was often very vague and tedious to comprehend. They (the instructional team) did give back points for questions they deemed unfair however. There was a fair bit of extra credit in the form of reflections and mini-midterms. I would take this class again with Pham (and any other classes he may teach) and highly recommend him. DO NOT underestimate this class just because it's called the "easiest".

Pham is an extremely nice guy and knowledgeable. Very accommodating and always answers people's questions. However, classes were sometimes a bit slow or he stops to answer too many people's questions. We fell behind and had to watch extra recorded lectures.

General course comments:
Lab worksheets are boring, long, and don't really help that much. Exams were hard to understand, wording is so vague sometimes. Launchpad's aren't very useful in terms of exams and spending extra time on them is a waste of time.

Dr.Pham deeply cares for his students who take his course. He makes sure to answer your questions thoroughly and is open to feedback on the structure of his class. I loved going to his class as he made genetics so much more engaging, and he oftentimes stays late during his OHs to make sure every student is cared for. I highly recommend taking his course when he is teaching 7B. An absolutely wonderful professor!

GOAT as usually. Cares a lot about whether students can learn well, and he also does the work into making information clear. He may either do lecture recordings of more content or do faster lectures and have you all ask questions during OHs. Either way, he is very helpful and clear. Exams are the same for all and can be quite hard. Regardless, passing is easy since relatively no brainer homework and labs should earn you a significant portion of points guaranteed.

Professor Pham was an incredible professor. He was super patient with everyone and would spend hours helping students outside of class. The class itself has some busy work, but I could not recommend taking LS7B with Professor Pham more.

Dr. Pham is very nice and does a good job covering the material! He always sent us emails reminding us of assignment due dates (which saved me multiple times). the labs for 7b kind of suck and are long and annoying, but that isn't Dr. Pham's fault since he isn't really in charge of course design.
He does a good job covering the material, but he ran out of time for slides every week. We kind of got stuck in this awful cycle: He'd run out of time, so he'd post a recording of the remaining slides. But then in class next week, he'd go over those slides anyways in class. But honestly, I prefer that to him rushing through slides, since he always explained the clickers and concepts well.
(and Gabi is an awesome TA)

He is very enthusiastic about teaching this class and is very helpful when answering questions. Overall I really enjoyed having him as my professor for this class!

ill preface with: dr. pham, if you read this, you are AS good, if not more!, of a person as your brother!

dr. pham was thorough, respectful, and an exceptionally kind professor. he would make time to answer ALL of our questions, send in extra recordings of slides he couldn't get to, and hold extra office hours just to help us out. although he's bound by LS7 series standardization, i really did enjoy my time in his class.

attending lecture is required. launchpad is hell. the ls7b labs are tedious and long for no reason at all. i felt like i was completing a 2nd grade worksheet.

this class was graded on a points scale out of 782 points.
midterm one: 120 points, 8 points extra credit
midterm two: 120 points, 8 points extra credit
discussion: 135 points (15 points each section worksheet, you can lose up to 15 points and get 100%)
iclicker: 72 points (4 points each lecture, you can miss 2 lectures and get 100%)
launchpad: 45 points (5 points each week, can lose 5 points and get 100%)
pcrq from launchpad: 45 points (same as above)
peq from launchpad: 45 points (same as above)

there were 32 points of extra credit.