Joseph Esdin
Department of Life Sciences
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4.2
Overall Rating
Based on 47 Users
Easiness 3.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.4 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.9 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.3 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
  • Needs Textbook
  • Engaging Lectures
  • Participation Matters
  • Gives Extra Credit
  • Would Take Again
  • Often Funny
  • Tough Tests
  • Tolerates Tardiness
  • Useful Textbooks
GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS
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20.9%
16.7%
12.5%
8.4%
4.2%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

53.0%
44.1%
35.3%
26.5%
17.7%
8.8%
0.0%
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A
A-
B+
B
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

57.0%
47.5%
38.0%
28.5%
19.0%
9.5%
0.0%
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A
A-
B+
B
B-
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C
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

62.6%
52.2%
41.8%
31.3%
20.9%
10.4%
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A
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

71.8%
59.9%
47.9%
35.9%
23.9%
12.0%
0.0%
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A
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

40.6%
33.8%
27.1%
20.3%
13.5%
6.8%
0.0%
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A
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B
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

36.7%
30.6%
24.5%
18.4%
12.2%
6.1%
0.0%
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A
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

30.3%
25.3%
20.2%
15.2%
10.1%
5.1%
0.0%
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A
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B
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

31.1%
25.9%
20.7%
15.5%
10.4%
5.2%
0.0%
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A
A-
B+
B
B-
C+
C
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

30.4%
25.3%
20.2%
15.2%
10.1%
5.1%
0.0%
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A
A-
B+
B
B-
C+
C
C-
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: B-
June 23, 2019

Esdin is an amazing professor and I'd recommend him to anyone. I absolutely enjoyed this class so much that it didn't bother me waking up early to go to his 8 a.m.
I know what you're thinking... "8 a.m.?!" It sounds bad, I know. However, he is worth it! Esdin is great and apart from the subject being super engaging so are his lectures.
If you've taken 7 A and B then you know how this class is structured. It's pretty much just composed of points. He was right because this is definitely the most interesting from the 7 series.
I 100% recommend Esdin to any 7C seeking student.

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Quarter: Spring 2018
Grade: A
June 19, 2019

Esdin is a decent teacher, but there's a lot of material to memorize. If you're interested in getting the answers to previous launchpad PEQs, PCRQs, and animations email me at jeremypeter33@gmail.com

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: A-
March 29, 2019

Esdin was highly recommended to me by other students. He taught half of 7C alongside Cooper. Esdin was a very clear professor who was extremely thorough with the material. He was also very encouraging even though our class did not do too well on the clicker questions during class. Like all of the other LS courses, the exams are multiple choice. Especially for 7C, the questions are hypothetical situations in which a part of the system is changed, and you need to determine if the effect is that something increases, decreases, or stays the same. The rest of the test is true or false questions, so it could get quite tricky. I would suggest studying the clicker questions and understanding the reasoning for each of them. The practice exam questions are sometimes helpful. The most important thing for this course is understanding all of the handouts and diagrams that they show you in class. Of all of the LS courses, I liked 7C the most because we learned about many of the systems in the body, which is definitely helpful for pre-med students. At the end of the course, you need to learn how to use Genome Browser, which is part of the unit about DNA and gene modification. Overall, I would highly recommend Esdin, especially if the course is taught solely by him.

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Quarter: Spring 2018
Grade: A
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June 20, 2018

Writing for LS 7C, which I took in Spring 2018. He is not listed as an instructor so I post it here in LS 2. Esdin is a good professor but he is not exceptional. He has a mild accent but he is understandable. He structures his course like LS 7B, so you should be pretty familiar with how things will turn out. His tests are pretty hard, and despite what he claims, the tests are structured differently than other LS7 exams. They have many more true/false and "less than/equal to/greater than" questions and very few multiple choice questions. The average is usually 80 to 85%. He doesn't curve.
However, at the end of the year, he adds (to a maximum of 100% of that category's points, of course) 1 assignment's worth of points to each grading category (supposedly because you're allowed to miss 1 assignment of each category. That's not mentioned in the syllabus though.), which ultimately amounts to a mind-boggling amount of free points given.

Overall, pretty decent professor.

Edit (4/15/2019): LS7C is now a class taught by Esdin on Bruinwalk. I've edited this review to be in the proper class (was formerly in LS2)

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: B-
June 23, 2019

Esdin is an amazing professor and I'd recommend him to anyone. I absolutely enjoyed this class so much that it didn't bother me waking up early to go to his 8 a.m.
I know what you're thinking... "8 a.m.?!" It sounds bad, I know. However, he is worth it! Esdin is great and apart from the subject being super engaging so are his lectures.
If you've taken 7 A and B then you know how this class is structured. It's pretty much just composed of points. He was right because this is definitely the most interesting from the 7 series.
I 100% recommend Esdin to any 7C seeking student.

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Quarter: Spring 2018
Grade: A
June 19, 2019

Esdin is a decent teacher, but there's a lot of material to memorize. If you're interested in getting the answers to previous launchpad PEQs, PCRQs, and animations email me at jeremypeter33@gmail.com

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: A-
March 29, 2019

Esdin was highly recommended to me by other students. He taught half of 7C alongside Cooper. Esdin was a very clear professor who was extremely thorough with the material. He was also very encouraging even though our class did not do too well on the clicker questions during class. Like all of the other LS courses, the exams are multiple choice. Especially for 7C, the questions are hypothetical situations in which a part of the system is changed, and you need to determine if the effect is that something increases, decreases, or stays the same. The rest of the test is true or false questions, so it could get quite tricky. I would suggest studying the clicker questions and understanding the reasoning for each of them. The practice exam questions are sometimes helpful. The most important thing for this course is understanding all of the handouts and diagrams that they show you in class. Of all of the LS courses, I liked 7C the most because we learned about many of the systems in the body, which is definitely helpful for pre-med students. At the end of the course, you need to learn how to use Genome Browser, which is part of the unit about DNA and gene modification. Overall, I would highly recommend Esdin, especially if the course is taught solely by him.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Spring 2018
Grade: A
June 20, 2018

Writing for LS 7C, which I took in Spring 2018. He is not listed as an instructor so I post it here in LS 2. Esdin is a good professor but he is not exceptional. He has a mild accent but he is understandable. He structures his course like LS 7B, so you should be pretty familiar with how things will turn out. His tests are pretty hard, and despite what he claims, the tests are structured differently than other LS7 exams. They have many more true/false and "less than/equal to/greater than" questions and very few multiple choice questions. The average is usually 80 to 85%. He doesn't curve.
However, at the end of the year, he adds (to a maximum of 100% of that category's points, of course) 1 assignment's worth of points to each grading category (supposedly because you're allowed to miss 1 assignment of each category. That's not mentioned in the syllabus though.), which ultimately amounts to a mind-boggling amount of free points given.

Overall, pretty decent professor.

Edit (4/15/2019): LS7C is now a class taught by Esdin on Bruinwalk. I've edited this review to be in the proper class (was formerly in LS2)

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4 of 4
4.2
Overall Rating
Based on 47 Users
Easiness 3.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.4 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.9 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.3 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
    (27)
  • Needs Textbook
    (21)
  • Engaging Lectures
    (25)
  • Participation Matters
    (24)
  • Gives Extra Credit
    (24)
  • Would Take Again
    (23)
  • Often Funny
    (19)
  • Tough Tests
    (20)
  • Tolerates Tardiness
    (12)
  • Useful Textbooks
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