<p>PIRES, D.B. or TAMANOI, F. ?</p>
<p>I’d like to know too. Neither has particularly good reviews on Bruinwalk, so it might be worth it to wait until winter quarter.</p>
<p>who else used to teach or will teach LS3?</p>
<p>I hired Pires was pretty good. I took it with Cheng. He only teaches like every two years. Johnson and Lin taught it Winter Quarter. Lin lectured for Cheng when he was in Washington D.C for NIH. They both have pretty heavy Chinese accents but I thought Cheng was pretty good, I don’t know how others felt.</p>
<p>Heard*</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>did not find Lin, do you mean Patricia Johnson? In Bruinwalk, Cheng has better review, were his lectures in podcast?</p>
<p>We don’t know who will be teaching in winter or spring, right?</p>
<p>Chentao Lin: [BruinWalk</a> : Chentao Lin](<a href=“http://www.bruinwalk.com/professors/mcd-bio/chentao-lin/]BruinWalk”>Chentao Lin | Bruinwalk)</p>
<p>Yes Patricia Johnson, and yes his lectures are podcasted. I don’t think they say who will be teaching yet.</p>
<p>Cheng is probably not gonna teach for a while…I think he teaches every two years or something like that</p>
<p>How about LS3 with Pham, H.D. in summer? Would that be a better idea than taking it in Fall?</p>
<p>Are most students who take LS3 in summer raising juniors?</p>
<p>Why is TAMANOI’s lecture 2 almost full? :[</p>
<p>Now TAMANOI’s lecture 2 is full!</p>
<p>^ chill out, damn. you’ve posted 4 times in a row in this thread with no response. time to stop posting</p>
<p>^I agree. Chill out and just take the class or don’t. Quite whining you can’t always take classes with the easier/better professors</p>
<p>I didn’t have Pires or Tamanoi, but had Pham for LS4. Although I can’t really speak for his teaching style for LS3, I can give my POV from my time with him in LS4. In my opinion, his lectures/office hours were not super helpful to me. I did like how he spent time on the material and showed us different ways to approach problems. However, I often had a difficult time staying engaged in his class because he might drag some of the topics on longer than it should be. I also know a few of my peers had a hard time understanding his strong accent. Overall, he really genuinely cares about his students. From what I’ve heard, he’s here as a lecturer rather than a researcher, so he offers a lot more office hours than he’s required to. He’s very open to questions and was willing to meet with any students who were concerned about his/her grade. His class overall was difficult, but fair. He tested our critical thinking and problem solving skills rather than pure memorization. This may be different in his LS3 class though because I remember the class being more fact based rather than word problems/pedigrees/etc.</p>
<p>In regards to class enrollment, I know some of my friends took the summer class as raising sophomores. I would think it’s mainly juniors though. From what I’ve been hearing, LS3 is considered to be one of the tougher LS classes, so people will most likely drop. There’s still a whole summer ahead, so people will be dropping the class while shift around their schedules. If you really want the class this fall, you have to be persistent by consistently checking Registrar for openings. If Tamanoi’s class grades are dependent only on midterms and the final, then technically you would have until the first graded assignment/midterm date to get into the class. If you’re worried about there not being openings, you can take in the summer. I’ve heard good reviews from my peers who took LS classes in the summer. Since it was their only class, they liked how they were able to focus on that class. Coming from my experiences taking the class during Winter Quarter 2012, I thought LS3 had a lot of information to memorize and understand for 10 weeks. Plus I also had to worry about the LS lab, Physics, and my GE class. So only take it if in the summer you don’t mind constantly learning a large amount of material in 6 weeks. </p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>I have heard about Pham has strong accent, is it very hard to follow his lectures? I have also heard that he does not test how much you memorized but more conceptual test?</p>
<p>Piece of cake to follow lectures.
What kind of life science course doesn’t ask you to memorize?</p>