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Awesome instructor. Always does her best to help the students. Very understanding of different student situations and offering support, especially during the pandemic.
There are a lot of glowing reviews for Rose, and I completely understand where they are coming from. She has an amazing personality and clearly cares about her students. I have a slightly more critical opinion of her, however, and wanted to provide my own perspective so that you all get a more balanced perspective of what you're getting into when you sign up for one of her classes.
I, personally, would much rather watch/attend lectures than read a textbook. Otherwise, I feel like I am simply paying $4.5k a quarter to take examinations. I was overall dissatisfied with the quality of Rose's lectures because they were extremely short and lacked depth. The majority of my learning, thus, came from self-teaching through trial and error on pre-class quizzes and homework assignments. I still pulled through with an A in the end, and I sincerely believe that I learned a lot, but I felt like I wasn't getting much value out of the portion of the class that I expect the most quality from (lectures).
The lack of depth in lectures and the brevity of the homework assignments, in my view, made the examinations more confusing than they needed to be. The exams were heavy in theoretical True/False questions and soft proof exercises compared to the other math classes I've taken at UCLA, and I would not have felt adequately prepared for those questions if I had not completed the optional end-of-chapter True/False questions that the professor recommended a week before each exam. I hate it when students need to complete optional exercises to be adequately prepared for exams, and I felt like that was the case in this class.
Overall, this was definitely the easiest math class that I've taken at UCLA. Low-stakes assignments and examinations made it an easy A. Note that this may just be due to the online format. If you are concerned about the depth of your learning, though, Rose may not be the best professor for you.
Professor Rose is amazing. She genuinely cares about her students and their well-being, both in the class and outside of it. She offers multiple opportunities for extra credit or other means to raise your grade. She drops the lowest midterm grade, which saved my grade. I learned a lot from this class, but I would highly recommend reading the textbook along with watching lectures, as content from the textbook does pop up on exams and it's easy to get caught off guard. I would absolutely take her again.
Rose is awesome. This class was "flipped" so we had pre-class videos to watch and questions to answer and then lecture if you wanted/needed it. You don't need to go to lecture if you don't want. The pre-class stuff was informative and you had 10 tries to complete it so it's very low stress. Exams were fair and Rose was always accessible. After an absolute nightmare experience online for 32B this class was honestly amazing. I would highly recommend Rose especially if you're still online. 10/10.
I will preface by saying Prof. Rose is most definitely an incredibly caring professor who wants her students to succeed and will always give them the benefit of the doubt *in regards to cheating. She is also nice and pretty organized however, I do not think she is the best professor for everyone.
She operates her class as a flipped classroom, where we watched 2 or 3 10-12 minute prerecorded videos before each class period and then we have pre-class assignments and questions after we videos we need answer as well. Her explanations are often short and don't do a good job at explaining the material throughly or concisely. I would often have to supplement my learning of the material with youtube videos. Because of this, her lectures are essentially glorified office hours that are often times not helpful. I stopped attending live lectures after the first few weeks because I was not getting any benefit from them. Since you don't know the order of the questions that will be answered, it is a waste of time to stay and watch the whole lecture if you do not understand one part of that day's lesson.
She also requires discussions to be mandatory because we have to complete a discussion worksheet with a group. Though it supplemented my learning, having mandatory discussions due to a worksheet that will just be graded on completion feels like a waste of time.
Side note, I always played her videos on 2x speed because she unfortunately does not have a very pleasant voice and I find that distracting.
Overall, the tests were relatively straight forward and very theory heavy (which she has said she does because of the online learning environment). I don't feel like she did a great job or preparing us for these exams. Her prerecorded videos are fairly surface level and also inadequately prepare us for the exams. I don't think her exams were difficult because we were able to use the internet and textbook. Prof. Rose is obviously incredibly caring and nice however she doesn't do a good job of explaining material coherently and for that reason if you're looking for an easy A you got it (assuming she teaches and grades relatively the same in person or next quarter) but don't expecting any sort of mastery from this class unless you supplement your learning with various other resources.
This was a flipped classroom with a very unique grading system. Rose had no midterms, but instead "Outcome Quizzes" that accounted for 72 out of 100 points in the grade book. Some quizzes were harder than others, but these were generally generous as you had at least 2 attempts (3 if you completed your first attempt before a certain date). Each attempt did give you a different version though. The only complaint I had about these was that they were graded on a credit/no-credit basis, so you either got 3 points or 0, which could end up being stressful because getting one outcome quiz wrong was automatically -3% off your entire grade (94 was the threshold for an A as well). The rest of the grade composed of pre-class assignments, participation, and the final exam (only worth 10%) as well as some extra credit opportunities for a point or two. The recorded lectures were short, which I liked, and Rose does a good job of explaining concepts, especially if you show up during lecture time, although many people didn't need to as her recordings were enough.
Professor Rose has a very easy grading system that encourages actually mastering material. You will have to do work a few times a week for this class but it will be minimal considering the class. Going into the final I only had to get a 30% to get an A and I physically couldn't get lower than an A-. This will be the easiest Math 33a class you take as long as you always keep on top of your stuff. Lectures are completely optional (this is stated on the syllabus) and you only have to go to 8/10 discussions to get full credit for discussion (also discussions are fully participation, just turn something in). No midterm and still got a 90% on the final with extremely minimal studying. You get 3 attempts on every quiz and I only needed a third attempt on about 3 of the 24 quizzes partially due to dumb mistakes. I think I saw professor Rose one time in person the whole class because I didn't go to any lectures but the videos she posts on canvas are EXTREMELY helpful and thorough and make a ton of sense. I didn't use a book at all and just referred to her videos whenever I forgot anything or the material was building too fast and I needed a recap. Overall, if you have to take math 33a, take professor Rose, the structure of this class is the best I've ever participated in.
Professor Morris-Wright is heading off to Middlebury to teach after her contract expires this year. I will definitely miss her teaching style.
She is a very liberal-art styled professor: 90% of the grade is based on daily participation, with a very easy final exam. If you can stay on top of the weekly outcome quizzes and have the drive to really learn linear algebra, this class is fantastic. However, I kinda regret not putting in more effort during the spring quarter because I don't think I learned that much.
Awesome instructor. Always does her best to help the students. Very understanding of different student situations and offering support, especially during the pandemic.
There are a lot of glowing reviews for Rose, and I completely understand where they are coming from. She has an amazing personality and clearly cares about her students. I have a slightly more critical opinion of her, however, and wanted to provide my own perspective so that you all get a more balanced perspective of what you're getting into when you sign up for one of her classes.
I, personally, would much rather watch/attend lectures than read a textbook. Otherwise, I feel like I am simply paying $4.5k a quarter to take examinations. I was overall dissatisfied with the quality of Rose's lectures because they were extremely short and lacked depth. The majority of my learning, thus, came from self-teaching through trial and error on pre-class quizzes and homework assignments. I still pulled through with an A in the end, and I sincerely believe that I learned a lot, but I felt like I wasn't getting much value out of the portion of the class that I expect the most quality from (lectures).
The lack of depth in lectures and the brevity of the homework assignments, in my view, made the examinations more confusing than they needed to be. The exams were heavy in theoretical True/False questions and soft proof exercises compared to the other math classes I've taken at UCLA, and I would not have felt adequately prepared for those questions if I had not completed the optional end-of-chapter True/False questions that the professor recommended a week before each exam. I hate it when students need to complete optional exercises to be adequately prepared for exams, and I felt like that was the case in this class.
Overall, this was definitely the easiest math class that I've taken at UCLA. Low-stakes assignments and examinations made it an easy A. Note that this may just be due to the online format. If you are concerned about the depth of your learning, though, Rose may not be the best professor for you.
Professor Rose is amazing. She genuinely cares about her students and their well-being, both in the class and outside of it. She offers multiple opportunities for extra credit or other means to raise your grade. She drops the lowest midterm grade, which saved my grade. I learned a lot from this class, but I would highly recommend reading the textbook along with watching lectures, as content from the textbook does pop up on exams and it's easy to get caught off guard. I would absolutely take her again.
Rose is awesome. This class was "flipped" so we had pre-class videos to watch and questions to answer and then lecture if you wanted/needed it. You don't need to go to lecture if you don't want. The pre-class stuff was informative and you had 10 tries to complete it so it's very low stress. Exams were fair and Rose was always accessible. After an absolute nightmare experience online for 32B this class was honestly amazing. I would highly recommend Rose especially if you're still online. 10/10.
I will preface by saying Prof. Rose is most definitely an incredibly caring professor who wants her students to succeed and will always give them the benefit of the doubt *in regards to cheating. She is also nice and pretty organized however, I do not think she is the best professor for everyone.
She operates her class as a flipped classroom, where we watched 2 or 3 10-12 minute prerecorded videos before each class period and then we have pre-class assignments and questions after we videos we need answer as well. Her explanations are often short and don't do a good job at explaining the material throughly or concisely. I would often have to supplement my learning of the material with youtube videos. Because of this, her lectures are essentially glorified office hours that are often times not helpful. I stopped attending live lectures after the first few weeks because I was not getting any benefit from them. Since you don't know the order of the questions that will be answered, it is a waste of time to stay and watch the whole lecture if you do not understand one part of that day's lesson.
She also requires discussions to be mandatory because we have to complete a discussion worksheet with a group. Though it supplemented my learning, having mandatory discussions due to a worksheet that will just be graded on completion feels like a waste of time.
Side note, I always played her videos on 2x speed because she unfortunately does not have a very pleasant voice and I find that distracting.
Overall, the tests were relatively straight forward and very theory heavy (which she has said she does because of the online learning environment). I don't feel like she did a great job or preparing us for these exams. Her prerecorded videos are fairly surface level and also inadequately prepare us for the exams. I don't think her exams were difficult because we were able to use the internet and textbook. Prof. Rose is obviously incredibly caring and nice however she doesn't do a good job of explaining material coherently and for that reason if you're looking for an easy A you got it (assuming she teaches and grades relatively the same in person or next quarter) but don't expecting any sort of mastery from this class unless you supplement your learning with various other resources.
This was a flipped classroom with a very unique grading system. Rose had no midterms, but instead "Outcome Quizzes" that accounted for 72 out of 100 points in the grade book. Some quizzes were harder than others, but these were generally generous as you had at least 2 attempts (3 if you completed your first attempt before a certain date). Each attempt did give you a different version though. The only complaint I had about these was that they were graded on a credit/no-credit basis, so you either got 3 points or 0, which could end up being stressful because getting one outcome quiz wrong was automatically -3% off your entire grade (94 was the threshold for an A as well). The rest of the grade composed of pre-class assignments, participation, and the final exam (only worth 10%) as well as some extra credit opportunities for a point or two. The recorded lectures were short, which I liked, and Rose does a good job of explaining concepts, especially if you show up during lecture time, although many people didn't need to as her recordings were enough.
Professor Rose has a very easy grading system that encourages actually mastering material. You will have to do work a few times a week for this class but it will be minimal considering the class. Going into the final I only had to get a 30% to get an A and I physically couldn't get lower than an A-. This will be the easiest Math 33a class you take as long as you always keep on top of your stuff. Lectures are completely optional (this is stated on the syllabus) and you only have to go to 8/10 discussions to get full credit for discussion (also discussions are fully participation, just turn something in). No midterm and still got a 90% on the final with extremely minimal studying. You get 3 attempts on every quiz and I only needed a third attempt on about 3 of the 24 quizzes partially due to dumb mistakes. I think I saw professor Rose one time in person the whole class because I didn't go to any lectures but the videos she posts on canvas are EXTREMELY helpful and thorough and make a ton of sense. I didn't use a book at all and just referred to her videos whenever I forgot anything or the material was building too fast and I needed a recap. Overall, if you have to take math 33a, take professor Rose, the structure of this class is the best I've ever participated in.
Professor Morris-Wright is heading off to Middlebury to teach after her contract expires this year. I will definitely miss her teaching style.
She is a very liberal-art styled professor: 90% of the grade is based on daily participation, with a very easy final exam. If you can stay on top of the weekly outcome quizzes and have the drive to really learn linear algebra, this class is fantastic. However, I kinda regret not putting in more effort during the spring quarter because I don't think I learned that much.
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