Wow, there are some harsh comments on here! Dr. Ehlting is such a sweetheart, and is so enthusiastic about Biology. I like that she writes very straight-forward tests - no tricks! Her accent is not bad, she only has a little difficulty with some words and will correct it if you let her know she is pronouncing something incorrectly. Great prof!

New prof, got stuck with boring part of Genetics, and had Choy's big shoes to fill. Lectures were somewhat dry and slow, due to the material. Very amicable and helpful in office hours; she'll find her lecture stride within a year or two

I thought she was easy and very straight forward on the exam. She repeats, almost annoyingly, the exact question that will be on the test. If you don't listen, then that is your fault.

Awesome prof! Gave it her all to make class relevant & interesting. Very energetic & caring, classes flew by. Wish she taught 150B.

I love Ehlting! She's a sweetheart and has a real love of bio. The course is kind of dry but she makes it a little more interesting. She does have an accent but you can understand every word, she just mixes up meanings sometimes or mixes words up. She's a great prof and I would definitely recommend her.

Barbara Ehlting is a great professor! She is super nice and very funny. Her slides are made to help students learn the basic material, and the material they cover are in the exams, which are very fair. There were 3 exams and no labs for this course, so as long as you attend and study your slides regularly, you should be good to go!

Awesome prof. She has an accent but it is not bad. Her lecture notes are some of the best I have had. Crystal clear and to the point. She brings in relevant and current research to compliment the book material. Exams are very fair, right out of the notes. Exceptionally helpful if you email and make an appointment. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!

I had her for biology 230 last year and 360 this year. She improved a TON. She is my favourite professor. A total sweetheart, very helpful, and her notes are great. The accent is not an issue. I highly recommend Ehlting.

Ehlting is such a sweetheart. She often got distracted and went off on tangents, so rarely finished lectures on time, but her enthusiasm for Biology made the class really enjoyable. If you go to class and take good notes, you're pretty much guaranteed to do well. 2 midterms, 1 final, all multiple choice.

Great course. Barbara made the lectures as captivating as possible, it is dry material to begin with but she adds scientific papers to supplement which make the material more exciting to learn. She's very passionate about cell bio and it makes for a great lecturer! Tests were very fair. Long answer, choose 5 of 6, and multiple choice. Recommended!

Well, the course itself is a little challenging but Barabara is very enthusiastic. Her positive and cheerful energy were sure passed on to us students. Test papers were fairly easy.

She is very enthusiastic. Very clear with her teaching. Exams were fairly easy. Always willing to help. Loved every bit of this course and learnt a lot from it.

Very clear explanation of material. However, some of the material is dry, and this makes it harder to absorb while studying. One thing which was annoying was that she tends to speak fairly loudly, and so when she used a microphone (which she did every lecture) it felt like being yelled at about genetics for 50 minutes.

Barbara's accent is no problem. However she talks pretty quickly but explains the concepts well. My recommendation would be to record the lectures so you can go back over them later. Her half of the class is not as interesting as Choy's, so if you lower your standards from him she's a great prof.

Ehlting was great, super enthusiastic and clearly loved her job! Lots of content for the tests but they were definitely fair. Know your stuff and you'll do just fine :)

Ehlting is nice and very enthusiastic, but she isn't the greatest lecturer. The lectures are mostly just a regurgitation of the posted notes, and she shouts a lot. Tests are really fair for the amount of material to learn. If you are in BIOC 299 at the same time things get easier because a lot of the material is the same.

Helpful & friendly. I found the tests difficult & had A LOT of material to memorize. Interesting, but too much! This course had a lecture A DAY before final, which I found quite unfair. My friend, who took 361 in the winter, said that his prof took some material out to fit the schedule. Not sure whether ours were shortened, but still, it was a lot.

She is great. She dealt with the hard 361 material with such organization that everything seemed to flow easily. Her exams test your understanding of concepts, not details. If you are interested in genetics you will LOVE this class. Attend every class! Stay focused and you will barely need to study. Good luck !

I found Barbara to be a superb lecturer. She is very conscious of her accent and makes a great effort to ensure the understanding of 200+ people. She answers questions flawlessly, I enjoyed attending and never missed one class. There were people in my row who skipped every other class, they didn't do well, not smart people though.

Barbara is great. A lot of material to pack into your brain, but you'll get that with any bio class. She is pretty engaging and tells funny jokes sometimes.

Super passionate about bio, enthusiastic, funny, and tries to involve the class in discussion as much as possible rather than just talking at her audience. Makes good use of the full lecture periods and provides more than enough information to readily grasp concepts: for this reason, I found tests to be easy. Very approachable.

Bio 360 is one of the toughest classes I have ever done. Not the material, but the test were brutal. Only MC and you get 7 or 8 choices per question! Some questions took up half a page! So if you aren't great at MC tests like me it can be tough, that being said if study like a madman you can do well. She was a great prof and would help when needed.

Her lectures are really engaging as she usually brings in some kind of prop or food to make you create connections between the material being taught and the real world. You don't really need to use the textbook but there is allot of information in her lectures that's not in the slides so attend class and take notes of everything!

She manages to get through a lot of material in a short time - highly encourages student participation, explains things clearly, knows her stuff and is passionate about the subject. Tests were very fair - and talk to her after class! She is a really great person. Given the pace of the class, do not skip!!!

Barb was super caring testing was super fair( she gives you a free 5ish % on MTs) . Beware of the group portion of the midterms as students who did not study enough (casuals) tend to bring down the mark of the people trying to get a good grade (she might not continue to do this as it was her first time doing it this semester) Overal great prof!!!!

Barbara Ehlting cares about her students. She gives multiple hints in the lectures about midterm questions, answers emails quickly, is always willing to meet in person to help you out, and is just generally a nice person to talk to. She is always in a happy and optimistic mood. Her tests are difficult to get used to, they're very lecture based.

Barbara was awesome for genetics. She clearly knows her stuff and her lectures are super interesting. She makes really good analogies and comparisons to make the material easier. We all did great on her exams and she's super cool to talk to about research outside class!

Honestly I thought Barbara was very sweet and it is clear that she really cares about her students. Her slides are not the most comprehensive so you definitely have to go to class, pay attention, and write lots of notes, but her exam questions are directly from her lectures. Try printing the slides before and writing supplementary notes on them!

Barbara is fantastic! The course content is awful as hell but she makes up for it by bringing in live examples and doing her best to make abstract concepts relatable to our lives. Love her!

She's a great professor. I ended up recording her lectures so that I could listen to them slower at a later time; she speaks about detail-heavy topics quite quickly, and it's easy to fall behind in class! That said, she covers complicated subjects well, and uses PowerPoint slides as a visual aid for her lectures - she doesn't depend on them.

Barbara is honestly one of the sweetest profs I've had. She often brought in stuff to enhance the lectures, which for my class included anemones she found that morning at the beach and different types of plants. She does have a German accent and her pronunciation isn't the best (which can make things hard for technical terms) but it's not an issue.

Dr. Ehiting worked hard to keep her lectures interesting. I loved her enthusiasm and her clear explanations. She was friendly and approachable.

Barbra was amazing regarding her skills to teach biology. She was interesting, enthusiastic, and brought tons of great interactive examples to make her explanations memorable, and exciting. As long as you are a great note taker and listen to her word for word, you should not fail this course

Very nice teacher! I found her teaching style amazing. She uses powerpoint slides and explains each slide perfectly. If you want more information or missed some info in class, everything will be on the textbook. The midterms might be shocking at first because you have about 6-7 choices to pick from in each question. Overall, READ AND STUDY :)

This class was great! Taught very well. On the first day she forced us to get our neighbours cell number so we can make study groups, which was great because studying as a group was worth it. Requires alot of note taking because the power-points does not contain all the info (so don't miss class). Overall, I learned alot from this class.

Barbara was a great prof and had an excellent teaching style. Although you don't have to attend all the lectures since it is purely based on the textbook, she goes through all the information very thoroughly and writes the key points and terms to remember with the class which is very helpful. Her portion on the final exam was to the point and easy

Our semester got ruined by COVID but she was super adaptable throughout the whole process and listened to student feedback. Tests are not that hard and her and Dr. Choi add a few bonus questions which is cool. Clearly cares about students and loves her job. Also I didn't buy the textbook and did fine, just go to lectures and take good notes!

She is a great professor and really nice and caring. She only has office hours once a week, and it is hard to make it, but other than that, she is always willing to help. She is hilarious but does not explain her slides as well, and rushes through important topics without explaining much. Her tests are very easy though, and she is great.

Dr. Ehlting's enthusiasm for plants was truly inspiring, and her lectures on the plant unit were very engaging as a result. She brought in live specimens and directed questions at the class. Her teaching method is largely oral though, the slides do not contain much of the crucial information so they are hard to take notes from beforehand.

Really enjoy Dr. Ehlting's classes. She really cares about teaching and wants everyone to understand the material.

Dr Ehlting's lectures were straightforward and she broke down the material very well. Her passion for plants is very clear! Her test questions were easy if you had a general understanding of the material.

Her content was somewhat more challenging on the tests. Reading the text chapters on plants helped a lot. Questions weren't too tricky with a decent understanding of the content. Her lecture explanations were a bit less clear than the other professors, but she also speaks English as an alternative language so that is to be expected.

Delightful professor. Very funny, and personable.

Dr. Ehlting really cares about what she is teaching and that her students understand the material in the lecture. She makes her class really engaging and I highly recommend her as a professor.

Barbara is very funny and her test questions were very fair. Definitely recommend her for this course!

Barbara is very knowledgable and funny, and is very clear with presenting the material. This course overall is very different from my other classes in the sciences, as the only things you are graded on are the exams and the lab, but her exam questions were fair.

This was a material-heavy course that was broken up into small understandable parts. Closely follows the textbook, and sometimes rushed through the material. Tests are worded kind of weirdly and tested understanding rather than memorization. Barbara was sweet and inclusive of everybody. She also prioritized our mental health. Would recommend!

Took condensed biol 360 in the summer with her. I always found quizzes super fair and exactly what was in the slides (always got an A+ on them). The final had some tough written but overall was fair and easy. She is very caring and a great prof and wants you to succeed. The material is hard but she makes it very understandable.

Ignore all the negative reviews. Barbara gave great lectures and cared a lot about students. Test questions were challenging, but that's the way university is supposed to be. I think a lot of the reviews are unfair, coming from they're students who expected an easy A.

Of all the 186 lecturers Dr. Barbara Ehlting definitely gave the best lectures. She talks pretty fast, but not too fast to where I couldn't keep up with notes.

I found her to be a very pleasant lecturer. If you participate in lectures, you will gain a lot more from the course and do better overall. Tests cover a lot of information but you are allowed to bring in a one-sided information sheet with as much as you can fit on it. I found the course to be incredibly easy and got an A with minimal effort.