I took this class to decide if I could major in a hard science; I learned that I cannot. Obviously, the material is very difficult, and you have to put a lot of work into LaunchPad for a good grade. However, Dr. Khankan was a great professor! Her lectures are fine- there's just a lot of participation. Take every extra credit opportunity, as you never really know how you're going to do one the exams until afterwards. There's 2 midterms, 1 final, but a lot of your points will come from LaunchPad, Clickr questions, and the worksheets you do in discussion. Make sure you do LaunchPad on time before every lecture, even if you just click through it and go back later. I had my discussions with Sean, who wasn't very helpful, but my LA was great. It's important to get 100% on every worksheet in discussion, but it usually wasn't too hard, since Sean went over each question before class ended, and usually there were smarter students enrolled that could help. Attendance and participation is very important, but Khankan allowed you to miss up to 2 lectures, since the points were out of a smaller amount than the max. I really appreciate Khankan now, (end of winter quarter 2020- Corona), as she and all other classes have allowed us to prorate our final scores, instead of taking it online at home. Even though this wasn't just her decision, she has been an extremely fair teacher, and went out of her way to help answer questions during lecture.

Learning from Professor Khankan was absolutely wonderful, and I am grateful for all the knowledge I gained in this class. The tests were slightly hard, but the content was fun as it was all related to human biology.

Amazing teacher. She always explained things very well and she was ALWAYS down to help. LOVED her. she really vouched for us at the end with covid-19. but LS 7A will destroy you if you're not ready for it. the content was hard and the exams were soul crushing... if you want to succeed in this class, review the learning objectives and make sure you can answer them. Tests require lots of critical thinking and complex thought. It is not regurgitation by any means. However, class is heavily padded with launchpad assignments and quizzes. Make sure you understand how the mechanism works (not the details) and you'll be gucci

Professor Khankan is a great and engaging lecturer. This is most evident when our lecturer switched near the end of the course; you truly realize how interesting she can make a long 1hr 15min lecture be in comparison to others. The lecture slides aren't very content heavy, and I didn't bother taking notes over them. The most effective method I found is to thoroughly read and take notes over the Launchpad readings before lecture, and have the lecture serve as a content review. Professor Khankan's lecturing is very clear, well organized, and engaging.

While I have the same complaints about wording and typos on exams, since the department and not the professor makes the exams this is essentially out of her control. However, the exams are still fair, and everything we have been tested over has been covered in either Launchpad readings or in class. I had no problem with time on the exams as well. There is a lot of content covered in one quarter, so I highly recommend that you stay on top of things and not fall behind.

You can tell that Professor Khankan cares greatly about student learning. She holds office hours four times a week, three of them are content office hours and one is for non-content office hours which is a great opportunity to chat with her and get to know her. During office hours she answers any and all questions very thoroughly and clearly to her best ability. Overall the LS7A class may have some flaws, but I highly recommend you choose her as your professor if you get the chance.

Professor Khankan is a good professor, She cares about students and is quite engaging. Every professor basically has the same tests for the LS7 series so don't bother trying to find a professor who is "easier", I think its all about how interesting they are and how well you learn from them.
All in all Khankan is a great Professor and always loves to talk to students and offer help.

This was probably my favorite class in the 7 series content wise, but don't get me wrong it is fairly difficult. I absolutely loved professor Khankan. She made class super engaging with optional worksheets or problems to help us use the tools we were learning about and had lots of clicker questions which could be a bit annoying but were incredibly helpful while studying for the exam. The class was structured fairly similarly to the other classes in the series but is broken down as follows: Midterm 1 90pt, midterm 2 90pt, final 180 pt, discussion 72 pt, participation 72 pt, launchpad activities 45pt, pre-class review questions 45pt, PEQ's 45pt, syllabus quiz 5pt. The midterms had an optional 2 point reflection and a 6 point mini quiz as extra credit. I'm not going to sugar coat it the midterms were incredibly difficult. I didn't do a ton of the prep work before classes so to study for the midterm I would do all of the pre-class worksheets but I highly recommend doing them as you go. The best things that helped me the most, especially for the final, was to go through all of the clicker questions and write out explanations for why the answer is correct, make a study guide based on the learning goals and objectives, write out explanations for the practice exam questions, and do the CLC worksheets. The final felt much easier to me then the first two midterms, but that may have just been because I studied like a crazy person for it. There were an obnoxious amount of sort of trick questions as the majority of the tests were true or false and results took around a week to come out. Overall I highly recommend taking this class with her. The majority of the issues are with the class and LS core both of which she does not really have any control over.

Professor Khankan was actually a joy to be in class with. She is a great professor and I have nothing bad to say about her at all. Lectures were engaging and she always knew what she was talking about. She was pretty thorough in her explanations which helped my understanding of the class material. However, the grading system was atrocious. Launchpad was straightforward as usual, but the lab sections and exams were horrendous. The exam questions were horribly worded which made them difficult to answer regardless of how well you know the material. The class average for the first midterm was around 65% which did not get curved in the slightest. Again, I think professor Khankan is a great professor and she certainly did her part to teach us the material well, but when the majority of the scores a D or lower on an exam, it is hard to blame the students entirely. In addition to this, the lab sections were harshly graded. You would get points taken off for seemingly no reason sometimes. They would ask super open-ended questions and then take points off if your answer did not use specific words.

Overall, Professor Khankan is great, but the class structure and grading is quite awful. If you have to choose a professor you will not go wrong with Khankan, but in order to excel in the class you will need to put in lots of extra practice so you get used to answer the poorly phrased questions that you will be confronted with come exam time.

Dr. Khankan is a great professor, and she made some concepts really easy to understand. She had plenty of office hours and a few Q&A review sessions, which I thought were great for studying. She would always answer every question in lecture clearly, and it is clear she knows her stuff. Definitely recommend taking this class with her if you have the chance.

This review is mainly for this class, and not about her.

This class is the hardest of 7 series IMO. They packed so much stuff into it that I felt like was pretty unreasonable for a college undergrad (all the systems in the body, gene editing, and cancer). I felt like the class was very poorly organized. It is too much to ask of students to try and study a new system every week and to understand the ins-and-outs of their molecular systems, and I wish they slowed the pacing down. It moves by really fast, and it can be easy to fall behind on the class material/

The tests were really bad, and they often pull tricks with the wording on the questions. It is a pretty difficult class, and it definitely requires constant studying to do well. While Khankan did not release the average for the midterms, I am quite confident that the averages were in the "C" range. The clicker questions are nothing like the level of difficulty that was on the exams. For me, the best study tool were the CLC worksheets

Discussion sections were very poorly organized and were unnecessarily long. They would ask us to complete a "worksheet," which was essentially just a mini-quiz of the week's info within a pretty short time limit. We were often rushed while typing up answers to our questions, and whenever I would ask my TA (Bryanna Chavez) a question, she would always respond back to me with a question, which was extremely frustrating. I understand they are asked to do this, but I wish they would change this policy. Moreover, the worksheets were graded very harshly and they would often take off points if we didn't include certain words even though we would get the general gist of the questions correct.

By now you should know how awful the LS7 Series exams are, and let me tell you, they only get worse in 7C like all these other reviews state. With that being said though, Khankan is the best professor to take this course with as she teaches with such clarity. Khankan is definitely one of my favorite professors I've taken so far. This quarter students from other professors even attended Khankan's lectures because they found that she taught much better for the exams. I cannot say enough good words about professor Khankan especially after taking her with an online course and then an in-person course.
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Logistics wise though, study for the midterms a lot harder than you studied for 7A and 7B midterms. I would get A's on the 7A and 7B midterms, but got a D on my first 7C midterm. Do all the extra credit and just study hard for exams and you can get an A.

Okay, honest review time... This class is the HARDEST class I have taken at UCLA and I am so grateful I got it over with. The material itself is not that hard to learn (except the week on osmolarity ew). The workload is a lot because of Launchpad so I would recommend taking easy classes alongside it. The exams are AWFUL (there is a special place in hell for the people who write them). Everyone (including me) failed the first midterm with a D average, so prepare yourself. They will literally say "this part of the body is working abnormally" and from there you are magically supposed to know if it now produces more or less of something???? But honestly, to do well I would say know every diagram given in CLC, lecture, launchpad, and the handouts. SERIOUSLY KNOW THE DIAGRAMS ON THE HANDOUTS, THEY WILL BE ON THE EXAM. And do not let this class become something you dread (like I did) because it really prevented me from doing my best. And, duh, do the extra credit. One day we should all revolt against the LS 7 series !!!!!