This class made my life quite complicated- the professor didn't necessarily help. Since it's a requirement for the communications major, I didn't really have a choice whether or not to take it. However, Professor Kernell was stressful and made learning in this class difficult because I had to teach myself everything and if I had a question, I had to resort to asking the TA.

Do not take her unless you have to. She was very rude and condescending the first week which made her unapproachable. I would dread coming to this class every time I had to. She took of points for pointless things that she could have explained better, with the in-person or online lecture. The quizzes were okay and not that bad but the assignments were often very long and absolute pain. I hated the exams, especially the second half. We used a textbook for the first half and then she gave us this new textbook PDF which made it harder to read. Don't waste your time reading it because you won't get tested on it. If you were like me and had no choice but to take in your last semester, good luck.

I was really nervous coming into Comm 150 because I had heard a lot of negative reviews in the past, but honestly I was pleasantly surprised. It's basically a repeat of Stats 10 (but easier) with more focus on interpreting the data and what it actually means. Professor Kernell is super accommodating, she had an online option for students to zoom into our weekly lecture (but I believe you actually had to be sick to do that) and instead of two, two-hour lectures per week like we were scheduled to have, she did two asynchronous lectures and one, one-hour live lecture every week. Personally I liked that format a lot, she always kept class succinct and to the point. The readings are important at the start of understanding the material (except the textbook which IMO is irrelevant) and for exams so I would recommend doing them - it's nothing too crazy, very reasonable workload. Overall this wasn't my favorite class, but I thought the tests were extremely fair (and curved), Professor Kernell was helpful, there was no final project which was a plus, and Prof. offered 2% extra credit for various surveys which was easy and rewarding.

Saw my girlfriend take this class and it was disgusting how rude she was and unaccommodating. I imagine it would be hard to pinpoint who could be writing this terrible review because this is a common theme. Georgia went out of her way to make sure my girlfriend did not succeed and went about doing incredibly shady things like outright lying to organizations and twisting the truth to CAE and the heads of relevant departments and violating accommodation terms. Absolutely do not take If you have disabilities or need any form of accommodation. Shockingly unprofessional and vile to an unimaginable degree. I PERSONALLY have a problem with HER, in addition to the academics, as a human being. Lectures are dense and often times off-track. Being from Columbia does not entitle you to being a total douchebag.

I took this class with Kernell after hearing all the bad reviews about the other professors who taught this class. Honestly, I don't think she was any better. If it weren't for the TAs, I would have definitely done much worse in this class. This professor only relies on her slides and in her office hours, she is SO condescending. I am already not great at stats, but the lack of communication between the professor and the TAs made this class near impossible and SO frustrating. There were so many ridiculous requirements in this class and it was such a headache. Even the TAs seemed visibly frustrated with the Professor's teaching style and her condescending nature. I am sure she means well, but this class was honestly so hard and I feel bad for anyone who has to take it.

This class is practically useless. Honestly, all this course does is reiterate Stats 10, so I don't understand why that class is a prerequisite to this one. Personally, I have taken 2 stats classes prior to this one and thank god I did because this professor is not a good communicator. She is extremely reliant on her slides (once when the projector didn't work she kept having to refer to computer as if she didn't know her own curriculum) and also makes concepts much more complicated than need be. Often I would sit in class and think of different ways I would teach the class one of our concepts. When Professor Lamberson was a substitute lecterer, his classes were so concise and straightforward the convoluted teaching style of Kernell really became apparent. Kernell also caters to the lowest common denominator -- she takes so many questions in class that really should be directed towards office hours if people still don't get a concept. She also assumes everyone in the class is super slow and reiterates very very basic concepts/definitions way too many times. The expression beating a dead horse definitely comes to mind when thinking about her teaching style. This is even represented in the homeworks Kernell creates where she would make us calculate the standard deviation of a data set that is over 100 observations -- this is a skill I didn't even have to do by hand in AP Stats and most likely would never do by hand outside of this class. Also I never felt particularly comfortable asking for help outside of class. I once asked her a question after class because I didn't understand a homework problem and she was kind of condescending that I couldn't get the answer right away and put me on blast for having to say I don't know. I will say though that Kernell does create fair exams and (on average, excluding monotonous questions) the homeworks do help prepare you for the exams.

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