Applied
Statistics I
This class was taught by
Eric Nordmoe. I took it to fulfill my quantitative reasoning requirement
for K. I took AP Statistics in high school, so this class was a total
review for me. I don't know that I really learned anything new in the
class, and I probably could have done almost as well in the class without
ever attending a day of lecture, but it did refresh my knowledge in statistics.
It also gave me a chance to show my knowledge of statistics, which
has led to one of my jobs, TA and tutor for the Stats I class. overall I
liked the class well enough and enjoyed having an easy class for fall quarter.
Final Grade: A
Psychology
of Prejudice
Gary Gregg taught this class
that introduced many theories about the root of prejudice. I found
it to be incredibly interesting and I really learned a lot from the class.
We read three books and countless articles for this class. The readings
were all very worthwhile and lecture was, while not always the most exciting,
very informative and thought-provoking. Instead of a final exam, we
had a twenty-page final paper due at the end of the class that I chose to
present as a webpage
. My paper was on racism in Australia, a topic that i knew nothing
about gong into the class, but now feel very knowledgeable about. Final
Grade: A
Introduction
to Cultural Anthropology
Jon Holtzman was not exactly
the most inspiring professor, nor the best lecturer I've ever had. At
the time I really disliked the class, but looking back (just a few months
later) I see that I really did learn a lot about world cultures. Taking
this class at the same time as Psych of Prejudice was a stroke of luck because
the topics were very similar and I was able to apply knowledge from each
class to work in the other. For my final paper I wrote on something
I had always wanted to know more about, Sherpas in Nepal. I thoguht
the paper was great fun to write because Ii really wanted to learn about
sherpas. I did rather poorly on my first test in this class, but with
an incredible amount of studying and hard work I was Able to pull my grade
up. Final Grade: A
Adolescent
Development
This class was taught by
Cathleen McGreal. While she was well intentioned, I certainly do not
feel that she was a very good professor. Class time did include a lot
of group work, which I enjoy, but the work was not very meaningful and really
didn't teach the material as I think she intended it to. Lectures were
very dull and covered only very broad material that was easily mastered while
ignoring the more complex issues of adolescence. The class also overlapped
far too much the material of Developmental Psychology, therefore creating
a class that was more of a review than a new learning experience. Our
video project required very little research and was not worth the time put
into it, but The papers and readings were worth the effort, as they actually
taught the material. Coming out of this class I feel it was less than
valuable and really did not add to my knowledge of adolescent development.
Final Grade: A
Introduction
to Programming in C++
This class sealed my decision
to be a computer science major. RC McDowell did an excellent job of
teaching the basics of C++ programming. Weekly programming projects
gave me a chance to really learn how to create a program in the language.
Entering the class I had no knowledge of programming and felt that the class
would be next to impossible for me. I felt incredibly incapable for
the first few projects, but soon realized how much I had been learning.
I went from not knowing anything about programming to being able to create
an entire project including multiple class header and implementation files,
for, while and do loops, recursive functions, inheritance, vectors and pointers.
I now feel very capable of creating a basic C++ program. Final Grade:
A-
Applied
Statistics II
When I registered for Winter
Quarter I had no idea which classes to take. I knew I wanted to try
programming, but that was only one class and i needed three. Since
I enjoyed Stats I well enough, I decided to try stats II. I Really
did not like this class and found myself incredibly stressed out due to the
workload. After six weeks of this class, I finally decided to drop
it from my schedule.
Ceramics
I've
loved working with clay for as long as I can remember, so coming into college
I knew I would have to take ceramics at some point. Ceramics was taught
at the KIA, and I'd heard great things about it so I decided this was the
quarter to finally take my clay class. The facilities at the KIA are
very nice, but I was disappointed in the teaching and the amount of time
spent on the potter's wheel. In the past I'd spent entire semesters
using the wheel, but this quarter I had only 3 classes with it. I was
also very disappointed in the number of firings during the quarter, as it
I was not given ample time to glaze and complete my projects. I came
away from the class with a few projects that I really like, but I generally
was not satisfied with this course. Final Grade: A-
Data
Structures
This
quarter I learned the difficulty of balancing being on the tennis with a
difficult class. As in Programming, I entered this class with no knowledge
of the material to be covered, but I left the class feeling very confident
using Java. Alyce Brady was sometimes hard to follow as her teaching
style differs greatly from that of RC's structure, but she was able to convey
the material to me in a way that allowed me to ask questions and interact
with her in order to learn it better. I left this class with several
new projects that involve more than just a "fish" swimming in an aquarium.
I very much enjoyed Data Structures and I know I will make use of my
Java programming skills again in the future. Final Grade: A-
The Physical
Earth
I loved this class taught by Dr. Tom Smith. I learned about different
types of rocks, how to classify rocks, and how rocks are formed. I
thought Dr. Smith was an excellent teacher. There were about 60 students
in this class, but I always felt comfortable to ask questions and contribute
to the class discussion. Dr. Smith never acted like any question was
a stupid question; the atmosphere of this class was so welcoming and really
encouraged learning. After taking this class, I really wish there were
more geology classes at K college for me to take. Final Grade: A
Created: March 3, 2001
Last Updated: February 18,
2002
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