
Maria Cha
AD
Based on 133 Users
As an English major, I was nervous about taking a class with coding, but the TA's are very helpful and Professor Cha is an excellent instructor. She was good at responding to emails and very thorough in her lectures.
cha is a great professor for this course. her notes are very organized (she uses powerpoints that you can copy straight off of without hearing her speak) and she provides a lot of resources to ensure her students do well in the course. the labs are easy to follow, the quizzes don't take more than 10 minutes, and the tests are relatively very easy. make sure you actually pay attention to the material, because you will need to know it for the tests, but this is a great class and i definitely recommend it
Highly recommend taking this class if you don't care about stats but still want a good grade.
Grade Breakdown:
5 coding labs (20%): but you literally just copy the code from your TA so it's super easy to get 100% - the lowest grade is dropped
six online quizzes (20%): they are definitely not that hard and they are open for 3 days and are open note - the lowest grade is dropped
2 exams (45%): they are not cumulative and you get a 15-page study guide, the one you do the lowest on, is worth 20% and the better one is worth 25% of your grade.
final project (15%): is a group project and is not too hard, 3% is from evaluations that are graded on completion and the other 12% is on the actual project
There is up to 1% extra credit for live polling - 0.1% for each class where you do live polling.
Her lectures are definitely not the most engaging and she talks pretty slowly so after a few classes I just started watching the bruincast recordings on 1.5 x speed and that worked the best for me.
I have absolutely no interest in statistics but it was an easy A and did not require that much work so I highly recommend taking this class. Professor Cha is super sweet and does a great job teaching the material and going at a relatively slow pace.
I was nervous about taking Stats 10 since I had never done stats before but it was totally easy for someone who was not super STEM focused. There is no homework which is great. Cha gives us access to a textbook but it’s just for practice if you need extra help. While I caught onto the concepts easily I struggled to connect the lecture with the lab, as the TA clearly did not know what had gone on in the lecture. Coding was difficult to pick up, but as long as you go to section you will get good grades on all the labs, because the TAs truly give you all the code. That being said, the labs make up a chunk of your grade, as do a final, midterm and a project. The final and midterm were not that difficult as they were open note (you could use 15 pages front and back of notes during the exam) but definitely worth studying for. The practice exams help a ton. The project was daunting at first but was very manageable and easy to do by using the examples from the lab and section. Plus, Cha gave .1% of extra credit for every class you attend by tracking iClicker participation. Cha was understanding and caring, and taught at a good pace. You should not be worried about taking this class!!
I am not a STEM person and struggle with anything having to do with numbers, but Professor Cha's lectures are so clear and easy to follow that I was able to understand all of the material.
The class has six quizzes, six labs (which are basically fully completed during the lab portion of the class), a midterm, a final, and a final exam.
She bruincasts every lecture and uploads the slides, which I recommend referring to when studying for the exams.
This is a very easy stats class so I recommend it if it is a requirement for your major.
Easy GE relative to most other math/stats classes, but it still requires some work and note-taking to succeed. The tests are easy -- online, 2 hours which is generous, multiple choice, and 15 pages of cheat sheets! Also, the final project takes only a few hours. Be careful on the labs though, they require programming in R which may be challenging for those without any coding background.
By design, STATS 10 is very easy, as no previous knowledge of statistics is assumed. The first half of this course, leading up to the [only] midterm, covers almost exclusively content that would be learned in a typical middle school or high school math curriculum such as mean, standard deviation, IQR, etc. The second half was focused on hypothesis testing but was still quite basic. Both the midterm and final were open-note multiple choice tests of about 40 questions each, and all you really needed to achieve a perfect score was applying formulae correctly. This class had no homework other than labs, which were essentially a basic introduction to R programming; the TA's would go over the answers during discussion, so it was all free points.
I would definitely recommend this class as an easy science GE even if it's not a major requirement.
Class is super easy. Midterm/Final are 20%/30%, lowest score becomes the 20%. "Quizzes" are untimed and easy enough, 15%. Labs are perhaps the most unnecessary things at this school. Focuses on using R to do statistics stuff, you can get by by copying exactly what your TA shows you. No coding knowledge is required. Shoutout Luciano Vinas for being the homie, dude made it so easy to do labs and graded quite easy. There's a group project at the end of the year, thing takes maybe 2 hours to grind out by yourself, there is no real need for a group. 15% of your grade.
This class is definitely one of the easiest GEs out there! Professor Cha is also very sweet and accommodating since she continued to record lectures for us if we were not able to attend in-person lectures. The assignments of this class consisted of six weekly quizzes, a lab due every two weeks, and a final project. The quizzes were very easy and could easily be done as long as you pay attention to lectures. Also, do not be scared of coding for the labs since the TAs will basically walk you through the entire thing and give you the answers. The final project basically involved things we had used in labs, so it was not hard at all either. Also, you can go solo or be in a group of up to 7 for the project.
For the exams, just like the quizzes, as long as you pay attention to the lectures and take good notes then you should be good. Definitely take this class if you can!
As an English major, I was nervous about taking a class with coding, but the TA's are very helpful and Professor Cha is an excellent instructor. She was good at responding to emails and very thorough in her lectures.
cha is a great professor for this course. her notes are very organized (she uses powerpoints that you can copy straight off of without hearing her speak) and she provides a lot of resources to ensure her students do well in the course. the labs are easy to follow, the quizzes don't take more than 10 minutes, and the tests are relatively very easy. make sure you actually pay attention to the material, because you will need to know it for the tests, but this is a great class and i definitely recommend it
Highly recommend taking this class if you don't care about stats but still want a good grade.
Grade Breakdown:
5 coding labs (20%): but you literally just copy the code from your TA so it's super easy to get 100% - the lowest grade is dropped
six online quizzes (20%): they are definitely not that hard and they are open for 3 days and are open note - the lowest grade is dropped
2 exams (45%): they are not cumulative and you get a 15-page study guide, the one you do the lowest on, is worth 20% and the better one is worth 25% of your grade.
final project (15%): is a group project and is not too hard, 3% is from evaluations that are graded on completion and the other 12% is on the actual project
There is up to 1% extra credit for live polling - 0.1% for each class where you do live polling.
Her lectures are definitely not the most engaging and she talks pretty slowly so after a few classes I just started watching the bruincast recordings on 1.5 x speed and that worked the best for me.
I have absolutely no interest in statistics but it was an easy A and did not require that much work so I highly recommend taking this class. Professor Cha is super sweet and does a great job teaching the material and going at a relatively slow pace.
I was nervous about taking Stats 10 since I had never done stats before but it was totally easy for someone who was not super STEM focused. There is no homework which is great. Cha gives us access to a textbook but it’s just for practice if you need extra help. While I caught onto the concepts easily I struggled to connect the lecture with the lab, as the TA clearly did not know what had gone on in the lecture. Coding was difficult to pick up, but as long as you go to section you will get good grades on all the labs, because the TAs truly give you all the code. That being said, the labs make up a chunk of your grade, as do a final, midterm and a project. The final and midterm were not that difficult as they were open note (you could use 15 pages front and back of notes during the exam) but definitely worth studying for. The practice exams help a ton. The project was daunting at first but was very manageable and easy to do by using the examples from the lab and section. Plus, Cha gave .1% of extra credit for every class you attend by tracking iClicker participation. Cha was understanding and caring, and taught at a good pace. You should not be worried about taking this class!!
I am not a STEM person and struggle with anything having to do with numbers, but Professor Cha's lectures are so clear and easy to follow that I was able to understand all of the material.
The class has six quizzes, six labs (which are basically fully completed during the lab portion of the class), a midterm, a final, and a final exam.
She bruincasts every lecture and uploads the slides, which I recommend referring to when studying for the exams.
This is a very easy stats class so I recommend it if it is a requirement for your major.
Easy GE relative to most other math/stats classes, but it still requires some work and note-taking to succeed. The tests are easy -- online, 2 hours which is generous, multiple choice, and 15 pages of cheat sheets! Also, the final project takes only a few hours. Be careful on the labs though, they require programming in R which may be challenging for those without any coding background.
By design, STATS 10 is very easy, as no previous knowledge of statistics is assumed. The first half of this course, leading up to the [only] midterm, covers almost exclusively content that would be learned in a typical middle school or high school math curriculum such as mean, standard deviation, IQR, etc. The second half was focused on hypothesis testing but was still quite basic. Both the midterm and final were open-note multiple choice tests of about 40 questions each, and all you really needed to achieve a perfect score was applying formulae correctly. This class had no homework other than labs, which were essentially a basic introduction to R programming; the TA's would go over the answers during discussion, so it was all free points.
I would definitely recommend this class as an easy science GE even if it's not a major requirement.
Class is super easy. Midterm/Final are 20%/30%, lowest score becomes the 20%. "Quizzes" are untimed and easy enough, 15%. Labs are perhaps the most unnecessary things at this school. Focuses on using R to do statistics stuff, you can get by by copying exactly what your TA shows you. No coding knowledge is required. Shoutout Luciano Vinas for being the homie, dude made it so easy to do labs and graded quite easy. There's a group project at the end of the year, thing takes maybe 2 hours to grind out by yourself, there is no real need for a group. 15% of your grade.
This class is definitely one of the easiest GEs out there! Professor Cha is also very sweet and accommodating since she continued to record lectures for us if we were not able to attend in-person lectures. The assignments of this class consisted of six weekly quizzes, a lab due every two weeks, and a final project. The quizzes were very easy and could easily be done as long as you pay attention to lectures. Also, do not be scared of coding for the labs since the TAs will basically walk you through the entire thing and give you the answers. The final project basically involved things we had used in labs, so it was not hard at all either. Also, you can go solo or be in a group of up to 7 for the project.
For the exams, just like the quizzes, as long as you pay attention to the lectures and take good notes then you should be good. Definitely take this class if you can!