Shelby Kimmel

This class is going to be somewhat mundane by its nature, but Prof Kimmel does a good job of explaining the concepts clearly. Lectures are her writing on an iPad and walking through concepts on a note-taking app, which works quite well for the material covered in this course. They are also recorded and notes are posted as PDFs, which helps with studying or if you miss classes. There is a group work component every class, annoying if you don't sleep well the night before. The problem sets can be tedious to work through, but you will understand the material by working through them weekly. Grading is interesting, you have to hit a threshold of learning targets, and each question is attached to a specific target. This makes it easy to track progress, but the questions on exams are often problems formulated in a way you've never seen, which is quite annoying. Also, the concepts in this class are surprisingly very useful for higher-level economics courses, especially learning how set notation works.

This class is going to be somewhat mundane by its nature, but Prof Kimmel does a good job of explaining the concepts clearly. Lectures are her writing on an iPad and walking through concepts on a note-taking app, which works quite well for the material covered in this course. They are also recorded and notes are posted as PDFs, which …Read more

The course is highly structured (while flexible) and final grades are assigned based on the number of learning targets you demonstated to achieve via exams. Therefore, problem sets are graded (or credited; for that there are no actual grades) on effort, and are generally very flexible (with long grace periods and three incomplete marks dropped). Some of the contents can be tricky but they can be attempted multiple times on different exams, so the pressure is not as high. Professor Kimmel is an effective instructor and is highly motivated by the course contents. She is fairly accommodating, around the best you would expect for professors in a large department.

The course is highly structured (while flexible) and final grades are assigned based on the number of learning targets you demonstated to achieve via exams. Therefore, problem sets are graded (or credited; for that there are no actual grades) on effort, and are generally very flexible (with long grace periods and three incomplete mar …Read more

This class is pretty chill, Professor Shelby explained the concepts really well in class and we got a lot of chances to practice assessment questions through problem sets and in-class group work. The programming assignment is pretty hard, but you have a revision chance.