<p>Can anyone give me a detailed info about this class? I'm taking this course as a backup because I might not get into Integrative Biology. </p>
<p>How are the midterms? Quizzes? Section?</p>
<p>Would I be fine if I skip 1 lecture a week? (conflict with Bio1B lab).</p>
<p>Your input is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Prof. Berry…Man, that guy. Just for context, I come from a hefty science background. I took EPS 80 last semester, hoping to learn a few new things. Prof. Berry basically taught everything at a 6th grade level. I liked him as a person, but I didn’t appreciate his oversimplification of every topic. After asking around, I found that Prof. Berry teaches in a method that explains topics in a very layman way. </p>
<p>His tests are concept-oriented for the most part, but he does throw some questions based on very specific things he covered in lecture – you know, just to make sure you’ve been showing up. </p>
<p>Overall, he’s a nice guy. A little boring for my taste, but it’s safe to say that his courses are a breeze.</p>
<p>Dude I’m soooo jealous!! I took ES 10 since I needed it for my major and heard it was easy…ONLY with Berry I assume. I took the class with Prof Inez Fung and by no means was it an easy A. I think I only know a couple of people who got solid A’s with a A LOT of B’s. I wish I had waited for fall =/</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input!</p>
<p>@inconnu : Did he grade pretty easily? Do you know the percentage of people who got As and Bs? </p>
<p>@calbear2012: take it again! =) jk</p>
<p>^ According to campusbuddy, 41% A, 19% A-, 23% B+.</p>
<p>I took EPS 80 with Berry last semester. I went to lecture once a week. It was on MW and I skipped out on Mondays b/c it was my only class… and I’m a commuter student so it didn’t seem logical to pay ~$7-8 for BART just for a one-hour lecture. That being said, I studied the power-points before every exam and did all the assignments/short papers (which was a breeze compared to papers I had to write for my social science classes)… and I got an A.</p>
<p>He didn’t actually grade anything. His exams were Scantron, and his GSIs graded the essays and whatnot. As far as the GSIs go, they were pretty easy on the grading. I think the head GSI made the grading rubric, so Berry really only delegated tasks. He tries to make the overall GPA for the class pretty high though.</p>
<p>“Would I be fine if I skip 1 lecture a week? (conflict with Bio1B lab).”</p>
<p>I’d be wary of doing that, since you might have a midterm or paper or project to hand in on a day when you have lab.</p>
<p>@ cjue: Thanks for the info! What were the assignments and short papers consisted of?</p>
<p>@bartleby: Great point. I might actually switch out of lab then. Thanks for pointing that out.</p>
<p>I just realized that this thread is for ES 10… I’m not sure how much this differs from EPS 80.</p>
<p>But anyways, the course assignments/papers/exams for EPS 80 consisted of:</p>
<p>1) 10-weekly observations of Strawberry Creek (observe things like: water color, how fast the water is flowing, apparent volume of water; comments on vegetation as well as bugs and birds along the banks of Strawberry Creek; insects on/in the water; any damage to creek banks by the creek… etc).</p>
<p>2) 2-3-page* write up of your observations of Strawberry Creek.</p>
<p>6) A project report/paper chosen from one of the following themes: campus water audit, campus waste, or sustainability of food. (I forget how long this paper was but it wasn’t that long… probably somewhere between 2-4 pages). </p>
<p>3) 2-3 page paper of your views of sustainability overall (or what you learned about sustainability in the class).</p>
<p>4) Two midterms (one was in class, the other was take-home; each worth 15%).</p>
<p>5) In-class final exam (worth 15% of your grade)</p>
<p>*The papers were 2-3 pages DOUBLE SPACED… which equates to about 1-1.5 pages single spaced (very, very short).</p>