Awesome course and material, you can tell he cares deeply about the subject matter and weaves his own research with the course topic in a super cool way. Weekly discussions, couple quizzes, a midterm and a final that are a breeze if you attend lecture and do the assigned readings. Can't recommend this course enough.

Professor Hoelle is a treat. You can tell he genuinely cares about his research and his students. His class is relatively easy but honestly fun. We watched movies relating to the Amazon. Reading is important as he uses the readings in the midterm and final. I highly recommend taking this class

My 2nd class with Hoelle = Amazing! I always looked forward to class and left the classroom with not only information but information I cared about. Grades were based on attendance, weekly responses, two exams and two short papers. Expectations were clear and the workload was easy to manage. Would take again a million times :)

The lectures are so boring and he just likes to hear himself talk about his own research. The content of the class is really self-explanatory which is nice. Overall, the class is easy, but I just dislike that his lectures are mandatory because they are genuinely not useful.

Lot of the material on exams comes from lecture and textbook readings. Professor's lectures are interesting and his slides are useful, attendance is mandatory but only counts some of the iclickers so missing is not a big deal. 2 papers that are relatively easy.

I really liked prof hoelle! he was really funny and engaging. lectures were a little boring but not bad. sections were mandatory and lecture occasionally had iclickers. There's two short papers but your grade really depends on who ur TA is. midterm was in person but the final was online and was way too long for the amount of time we were given.