This is an excellent introductory ethnic studies course with a professor who was very passionate about the subject. Grading was very fair and original thinking was amply rewarded.

The course covered by the relevance, origins, and struggles of Black Studies programs in the United States and abroad in global context. It did so through history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and political science in context. Key historical events were explored in the context of the field, with particular emphasis on the civil rights movement, and pan-African movement.

Wray was an excellent professor who’s only con was an unclear midterm grading rubric. He was extremely engaging in lecture with many visual aids including videos and current events. He allowed students from varying ideologies to contribute and assignments did not seem biased.

There is a lot of reading of the assigned major texts, and these readings are essential to do well on essays, the midterm, and the final. A student who is consistently engaging should expect a 3.5 gpa or above.

The course was interesting by covering more gen chem content in a shorter timeframe. It was a much larger amount of work but relatively forgiving with its curve. Lab and exams were very important portions of the grade.

Covered all chemistry basics such as bonding, quantum mechanics, stoichiometry, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, and gases.

Lutz was a very friendly professor and loved answering questions. Maybe a little too much. He often took up large amounts of lecture time to answer questions that were not very useful to the whole cohort. Office hours help was available and very helpful.

Do not underestimate the amount of ALEKs practice or the difficult of the exams, especially midterm 1.

People whine way too much about this course. Just ask questions and do your work! Dushoff section is difficult but the first test is weighted only 7.5% with one of the grading schemes, and so even if you bomb that test, you can definitely make up for it with the final. The final has mostly questions from Kolasa's section, that if you're willing to grind, are all extremely easy. It's not hard to 10/11 this course imo.

Eh...the content is kinda boring. Dushoff section expands on evolution from grade 11 bio. Kolasa section has some of population dynamics from grade 12 bio (if you did that unit) and then delves into geography and climate change. Tutorials were frankly really annoying to deal with biweekly, especially the dreaded PBL project but you do get some skills (citations in a new format, writing a paper, presentations) that can be useful. I hated them while they were happening and it was annoying not acing the post-tutorial assignments, but in hindsight, if you just put in effort its not that bad.

Dushoff was an amazing prof who delivered the content super well and was frequently available to clear up concepts in office hours. His test questions were tough but like, its university LOL no one told you it was gonna be easy :P Kolasa was very boring and frankly his lectures were horrible. However his test questions were pretty easy (midterm had a few bad questions, but they ended up removing those for everyone), and the exam was super free if you grinded peerwise (student-created question bank that he pulls questions word for word from).

Read the textbook for Kolasa. Do all of dushoff's practice questions from his website and then try to really nail down the concepts. Some of his questions come straight from lecture notes, so make sure you really know those. PICK A GOOD PBL GROUP OR YOU WILL HAVE AN AWFUL TIME. I made the mistake of walking in late and ended up with a group of total bums. I ended up 12ing anyways cuz I locked in for the final, but I lost 1.5% off of my final mark from this project.

As someone who doesn't like statistics, the course was pretty good!

Truthfully, this course was not relevant to me in anyway, so I cannot say if it is useful. However, since it is an introduction to probability and statistics, I'll argue that it does a good job at preparing you for upper year stats classes.

The prof is a great person! He is super approachable and kind, but he is really passionate about the subject, so he may fire off on a random tangent pertaining to something in probability/statistics, but not entirely related to this specific course.

This course really isn't that bad, but just make sure to understand the concepts so you can succeed! Best of luck if you take this course!