Very difficult class. She rambles on about things that don't relate to the class. The study guide she gives out is not helpful at all. You have to go to class, because she does iClicker questions every single day that are a HUGE part of your grade. FIND A DIFFERENT TEACHER.

Her tests are brutal don't expect and A or B, chances are you'll get a C or lower every time. At the end of the semester I had a 79.9% in the class and she wouldn't bump it up even though I did assignments and never got credit for them. If I would've answered 1 more question right on a quiz I would've gotten a B- that's how close I was. She's awful

Her lecture material is not consistent with the tests and quizzes. She just talks about things she is interested in and then come test time you are clueless on the material. Not a well structured class, and very difficult for a basic biology class.

Worst professor on Utah State's Campus. By far. Do not take any of her classes regardless of what other comments say. Save yourself a from a boring class with a teacher not committed at all to helping her students excel in her course. Again, do not take any classes from her at all, her teaching and lack of support for her students is not worth it.

Avoid at all costs. Attendance is based on iClicker use, and it is worth four times as much as the average quiz grade. Choose a professor that cares more about teaching than how many times a student presses the buttons on an iClicker.

If you have her for BIOLOGY 1010 I would recommend you drop her class. She is very unorganized in lectures and her tests do not correspond with what she is teaching you in class. She grades ridiculously for an entry level biology class, and tends to ramble about her research rather than what you are tested on.

Her tests are poorly written. (they do not correspond to the notes or lectures) She does not present material clearly for students to understand. If you enjoy someone talking down to you then you should go have a chat with Lauren she's great at it! Glad the class is over and I hope she can learn to treat students as adults.

Lauren Lucas writes the labs, although unless she is your TA also, you'll likely never meet her. However, those labs are poorly written and require you to do too many things in little time. The pre-lab readings are high-level scholarly articles that beginners (everyone in the lab) can't understand and quiz questions are impossible. Unfair grading.

Hated this class, her lectures and notes legit dont correspond with her exams and class average was always super low. Dont recommend.

Professor Lucas was an okay lecturer but her tests were harder than expected and some things tested on were not covered in class. I contacted her several times throughout the semester and she was VERY slow getting back to me about questions. Doesn't care about student success at all. 0/10 would not recommend.

Lauren seems like a great person, but I dreaded going to lab with her every single week. Her grading system is unfair. She will give you a few questions to answer on your lab write up each week, but she is prone to taking points off for little specificities not mentioned anywhere in her question or in the lab documents. Would NOT recommend.

Her class had almost no bearing on the biology class it was associated with, and was poorly adapted to being online because of COVID. The information she puts out is ambiguous at best, the lab manuals are greek to anyone who isn't majoring in bio, and they expect you to use a program (R) that they don't explain. TA's can save you. Mine didn't help.

I have never hated any class more. Lauren and my TA were very unwilling to work with me and did not transition well to an online course. I'm studying to be a doctor and literally hope that one day one Lauren comes into my clinic so I can reject seeing her.

My TA in this class was awesome, everything about this class was not. Did not transition good to online, pointless classes, and way more work and homework than a 1 credit lab should have. Super harsh grader, no matter how hard you work they will find something to dock you on, and lauren was not available or understanding at all. Also super boring.

Lauren is the least personable teacher. She expects a lot, does not have clear grading criteria, and if you ask to meet her in person regarding concerns or questions she will do anything to avoid it. A good teacher should be willing to meet with students, not tell them she would rather them ask others or email. Does not care about her students.

I had a TA named Anthony, he wasn't great I would definitely find another TA if you can.

Lauren Lucas teaches through videos that you are then quizzed on. The videos are not accessible, and often I couldn't hear or CC covered the content. She has GTA's do all the teaching, and mine just told us what to do, and put no effort into actually teaching. I often was confused, and questions were not answered well. Grading was extremely harsh.

I know many who went into this class thinking it was going to be a beginner lab class and not a class where we are expected to be perfect. A lot of the videos and "lectures" were unclear. If you get Anthony as a GTA I recommend you change to a different one.

Entirely TA taught, never saw her the entire semester. She has you do the manual labor for collecting data on her alfalfa plants that she is doing for her research. Your entire experience is based on a TA you get assigned and don't know how bad it is until the semester starts

Entirely TA taught, never saw her the entire semester. Your entire experience is based on a TA you get assigned and don't know how bad it is until the semester starts. The TA held us to his level of understanding, not at the beginner level class we are. I would recommend finding the labs taught at a satellite campus or by any other professor online

Class format is terrible. Don't take BIO Lab from her, just take BIO Lab at an extension. TA has no clue what he's doing, and is extremely unhelpful. Went from a 97% to 88% after the group lab report, even though we received 100% on the individual sections. TA never gave any helpful feed back either. She shouldn't be allowed to teach this anymore

All Lauren does is make cringe videos that are super boring and "mandatory" to watch. She doesn't care much about her students and only teaches the class to advance her own research. She teaches us like we're in elementary school, which is frustrating. My TA was great though. My TA gets a B+ but Lauren gets a big fat F.

Dolores Umbridge, I kid you not. Dr. Lucas leaves all authority to her TAs. We had a disagreement with how something was graded with our TA and contacted her about it. She became extremely defensive and justified the TA without looking into the problem. She seems to get very upset and then switches to being sweet all of a sudden. Kind of creepy.

This course is awful. The class is just a reason for students to collect data for Lauren's research under the guise of learning how to write a research paper. There are only a few moments that are remotely interesting (5-30 minutes max out of a 3 hour class) and they're few and far between. If you get Anthony as your TA, switch classes. Trust me.

Worst lab I have taken. Graded on very few things, and graded very harshly as well. The final project is a group lab report which is worth 30% of grade, and the highest score out of the entire class was a 75%, which meant it was impossible to get an A even if everything else was perfect. Poor instruction, poor feedback.

She doesn't care much about the students. Your class totally depends on which TA you get. I had a good TA, but he was strict in grading something that was worth 30% of the grade. Basically just cross your fingers that you get a chill TA because Lauren doesn't care at all. You are kind of thrown in the dark for the assignment worth 30% of your grade

What a joke. You need an ok TA or you have 0% chance of an A. I was fighting through the semester with just barely an A, then came the group lab report, my group got a 21/28 we were the high of the class due to the harsh grading of the TA. I emailed Lucas to see if she'd read it, since in the syllabus it says we can contest our score & she refused.

Lauren Lucas could give two about any student at USU. She only is there to do her own research, and delegates all teaching responsibility to her TA's. My TA was amazing and a god send, but if you get a bad TA good luck at succeeding in that class. Good luck contacting Lauren, and if you do she won't be of any help.

Good luck if Faraz is your TA. He is nice, but he has no clue what he is doing. His grading is totally random and deducts points for things that don't make any sense or aren't in the assignment. My group was barely able to secure an A-.

Lauren delegates all teaching to the TAs so cross your fingers you get a good TA. You can miss one class and you can't be late or you'll get a 0. The group project tanked everyones grade in my entire class. They are graded very harshly and on a GRADUATE level rubric. You work on it for weeks in class and even out of class. Worst 1 credit class.

DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT LOOK AT THE 5s & 4s or 3s they are not accurate look at the 2s & 1s. She gives all power to her TAs, & when your TA sucks she will not help you, she tries anyway possible to get out of meeting in person & her rubric for a crappy reports worth 30% of your grade is graduate level, she won't look over reports graded by a bad TA

Bio 1615 was brutally slow and boring. Worst class I've taken at a university level. My TA was great but the group lab report was graded way to harsh.

In the nicest way, this is the worst class I have ever had & I am in my senior year. She has a terrible grading scheme that is used, & some TAs grade harshly, while others give you an easy A. If you have a harsh TA good luck you will not get an A. If you want to take an English class then this is for you, but like me, you need the class to graduate

You end up in a group with some of the laziest people ever, and your grade will suffer. You'll never actually speak to Lauren Lucas, and it is impossible to get 100%. This is my second semester with this professor and the 1st semester i barely got an A-, this semester i have an A because i have to babysit my other group members.

A very pointless class; there is nothing that I learned that will benefit me in any other class or future career. This class is extremely subjective and your grade will solely depend on your GTA and the group that you are randomly placed in. 25% of your grade will be based on a single presentation. Good luck.

The worst class I've ever taken. Made me question my life choices

Put no effort into my success. Never saw her once and the projects were pointless.

There is no effort put into teaching. The TAs are great but the material they have to teach is pointless. There are hardly any assignments so doing bad on one assignment can mess up the whole semester. She is the only one that teaches it so you have to take it through her.

Seems to not really care about the course or what the students get for their grades. Just doesn't seem like she's trying at all with this class. Also this lab has nothing to really do with the lecture.

I felt like the seed beetles we studied were of more value to Lauren then me and my success. What a waste of time to just earn 1 credit under someone that didn't support me.

The professor seems disinterested in teaching. The TA's are great but the material they're provided isn't great. As well as this professor is very uncaring about her students as a whole, Very strict on attendance and excuses. Unfortunately you do have to take the course through her so just good luck!

The final is graded using a graduate-level rubric, which feels wildly inappropriate for a one credit undergrad course. Your grade depends entirely on your randomly assigned group and TA. Mine openly admitted that Dr. Lucas is using this course to further her own research, not to teach. There's no real academic benefit to taking it.

Hated this lab. The whole thing is based on doing work for Lauren's research. All it focuses on is Alfalfa which no one cares about. My TA was amazing and probably the only reason I got an A. If you get a bad one, you're screwed. Lauren expects you to know how to write prolific post-lab write-ups which is crazy for a one credit class as a freshman

This was more of an English class than a biology class. She does research on alfalfa plants and basically just uses her students to do the research for her. We did so many reading assignments when this was a biology lab. I love biology but the labs were boring and the course was boring. She never introduces herself once and refuses to help.

The only reason Dr. Lucas is still a professor for this class is because she doesn't want to do the boring data collection she makes the students do. Everything is graded so harshly, the classes are long, and you will never see Lucas, only a TA. Don't take this class if you don't have to. IF this class is required, get baptized and start praying.

If you aren't required to take this class, DO NOT TAKE IT. Workload was manageable but incredibly niche (I hope you like alfalfa!!) and graded on a graduate level rubric. My best advice is pray for a good TA and don't take the honors section. Lauren teaches it herself. I had a friend in it, they had harsher grading and an overall worse experience.