I read that this class was an easy GE and took it on that basis, but this was not the case at all! The tests are not curved, lectures are dry, and it seemed to be a lot of information thrown at you on difficult subject matter (and for someone who is a humanities major, focusing on the dry subject matter was incredibly challenging). After the first midterm came out, I paid the fees to change my grade to Pass/No Pass because I didn't want this GE to bring my GPA down, since it felt that most people I knew, including me, were projecting at the C-B- range. However, Prof Picazo was passionate and seemed to be a cool guy who was always traveling, which made me like him a little bit. Personally, though, I would not take this class again.

This lab class only gave labs every 2 weeks. There was a total of 4 labs for the quarter. This lab is not very time consuming but on the weeks that you are given a lab, you may expect to spend at least 1-2 hours on the assignment. Links were provided on the lab in which we would see a graph or do some reading and then answer the questions on the lab. We were also expected to take screenshots of these graphs to include at the end of the report, before the bibliography. Sometimes the questions were hard to understand but by asking the TAs, it becomes easy to answer them. This lab class was very helpful and reinforced what we had learned during lecture, though, it also extended it by teaching things not taught in lecture.