Prof Knowles is amazing!
Very caring and probably the best professor at ucla! The class was actually one of the few if not the only one that I actually enjoyed learning instead of stressing out for tests! Very fun and enjoyable class! Take it if you can!

Overall, the class is easy. During lecture, the professor goes over the material on the slides. In discussion, we formed a group on week 1 and discussed with that same group during the quarter. Every week, each person had to come up with a question about aquatic communities that could be tested, which we turned in on a doc as a group. We had weekly quizzes and logbooks. All quizzes were multiple choice and the logbook is you describing something we learned in class in a fictional way (can become tedious since it's every week, 2 pages and single-spaced. However the top 7 are graded for both). The final paper (18% of grade) was the "hardest" part of this class since you had to write a 4 page, single spaced research paper about any question (emphasizes on a knowledge gap) related to aquatic communities that is relevant today. That was basically it, plus the professor is so cool.