Absolutely useless course, a waste of everybody's time. Anyone who rated the usefulness of this course above 3 should not have graduated highschool. Forced us to do a bunch of useless activities just for the sake of having assignments.

Scientific papers include the following: A claim, reasons, some evidence, and counterarguement with its rebuttal. Great, you just finished learning 95% of the content covered in sci 113 !!!!!

Pretty chill prof but is allergic to giving good grades for some reason. Bro was making sure everyone got around 80.

Not much you can do about it, everybody is forced to take this course.

Easier verison of WRDS150. Less useful though. 10% of material is useful. Everything taught could've been finished in 1 week. Smashing my fingers with a hammer would've been a better use of my time.

Chill Prof

Was in the first class and so some of the assignments were unpolished. Otherwise identical in style to dsci 100 and stat 201. Though the topics are much more interesting and deals with actually thinking about how to apply the correct model rather than just a simple automated statistical result. Also has a project.

Would've gave a 0 if it was possible. We are expected to be able to understand graduate level articles and summarize it even though you don't fully understand it. Actually improving scientific knowledge (i.e. physics or biology) would be more helpful imo

You basically write essays following a structure that you would've done in high school already (introduction, body paragraphs etc). Claim, reason, evidence, counterargument & rebuttal.

The prof was a nice person and responds to messages and questions; however, the marking feels very subjective and it feels like the marking is done in a way to purposefully get the same average to be around 80. Good for people that have low grades in other courses I guess but sucks if you are actually good at science and brings down your average.

Talking to the prof helps but only by a marginal amount

Do NOT take this course as an engineering student to fulfill the "Impact of Engineering on Society" credit. Take Civil 250 over the summer. It's an online course and all my engineering friends highly recommend it for this credit. This course is an engineering student's worst nightmare. I say this after I have drawn, yes, hand drawn 11 weekly reflection postcards, and 4 design exercise postcards worth of drawing. They take up an insane amount of time that should be spent tackling practice problems and assignments for actual academic courses. The readings are somewhat interesting but contain very little substance on urban planning/design, if any substance it is a very high level, such as bikes are better than cars, large outdoor plazas are better than highways etc.. You have to go to class t...read more

The content occasionally provokes some thought, but after all the postcards I have drawn, I have begun to resent this class for the constant weekly assignments it adds to my workload while not providing any lasting learning.

Prof gave okay lectures but never records them or posts the lecture slides or else no one would come to class. Again, you have to reflect on the lecture and reading so if the lecture slides were posted no one would go to class because they are 90 minutes and it is just example after example of things that are wrong about cities and vague design methods to fix some of them.

Don't take this class if you are an engineering student looking to fulfill your credit. That is the only reason you would be taking this class. Especially do not take this course if you are an international engineering student as you will pay about $4000 for the pleasure of making 12 weekly reflection postcards, 4 design exercise postcards, and a final project postcard.

Disclaimer: This is purely reading the course itself, nth wrong with any prof or TAs. - To be fair, I don’t see any usefulness of this course.

the content was about mainly raising concerns on local social issue. Then draw weekly postcards about your thoughts, lecture, to communicate with the society, etc. But Is this actually useful? Will you learn anything, knowledge gain, etc? you gotta think of sth and create them weekly while you’re taking other courses that you’ll actually learn from with heavy workload. I’ll leave that to yall.

the prof was ok, don’t really wanna give any bad comment

think twice before taking it. could be a gpa booster? But nw if you’re an art/ design student.

Fun course, learn about the basics of assembly and how computers work at a very low level. You are expected to teach yourself how to work with C for the most part, not *too* hard after CPSC 210. This class taught me that systems were not for me, but I still enjoyed it. Making a brute force hack and learning to defend against it was fun. Favourite part was working with threads and parallel computing, was much harder than I expected and my lab parter practically did all the work. Very assignment heavy, start it early

Mostly a boring class, repeated essay writing skills from highschool. Though from some of the papers I peer-reviewed, students really need to take it. Whole focus of the course is to write a simple research paper, and it gets the job done. Perfect for anyone interested in going into research, or who expects to read a lot of research papers. Also goes into how trustworthy the peer-review process is, and how to critically evaluate it. Harsh grading, solid alternative to ENGL 110 if you dont want to read.