Kostas Goulias

12 reviews
Hilarious Graded by few things Caring Respected Group projects Accessible outside class
Past quarters
GEOG 111A
36 / 48 Enrolled
Transportation Planning and Modeling
Kostas Goulias 4.4
T R
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
GEOG111A . 1 Year, 5 Months Ago

Pretty smart professor and an easy A. Very interesting if you are interested in transportation if not still a cool class.

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GEOG111A . 3 Years Ago

A caring professor for students. This course is graded by 8 labs and weekly quizzes. Quizzes are based on his lectures, which are easy if you participate or watch the slides. Labs are R coding exercises, follow the instructions it will be easy. Goulias is a n expert, definitely recommend this course to folks who are fond of transportation systems

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GEOG111A . 4 Years Ago

There are seven labs, a midterm, a group project, and a final solo project. Labs can be tricky so attendance definitely helps but it's not mandatory because everything is online on R. Prof Goulias is very kind and tries his best to make lectures interesting.

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GEOG111A . 4 Years Ago

Prof Goulias provides a pretty extensive introduction to transportation planning, R, and data management. The course doesn't ask much of you but Goulias still maintains passion for what he is teaching and actively wants you to succeed. One of the friendliest and kindest professors I've ever met so far at UCSB.

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195KG . 5 Years Ago

Almost dropped this class and Im so happy I didnt! Goulias is so nice and funny, one of the best professors I've had at UCSB. The class was only 2 papers and a take home final, super easy and really interesting topics considering our time period.

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GEOG5 . 10 Years Ago

did't go to class for most of quarter, only read slides. tests are common sense

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GEOG111A . 10 Years Ago

Best prof at geog department. he believes in giving out high grades bc Princeton and Harvard, etc. are doing it and it would be unfair to students at other schools. super easy test. no textbook, all the stuff are on gauchospace, but i never read any. hes so good im gonna take 111B with him next quarter.

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GEOG5 . 11 Years Ago

He's a funny guy. He tries to make class interesting and give unbiased lectures. Class was easy, the materials were very interesting and the tests were fair. I highly recommend this class as a GE!

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GEOG111 . 11 Years Ago

runs the class like a manager. course material ranges from fascinating to irrelevant. tests are way too easy. lab section is challenging but not well integrated with lecture material.

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GEOG111A . 12 Years Ago

Kostas is by far the best teacher in the Geog department. A really nice guy that is really fair and extremely helpful. Very trusting and friendly. Funny. Odd guy in some regards. If you aren't into transportation then the class might not seem that cool but still it is pretty easy and still interesting. TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM!!!

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GEOG111A . 13 Years Ago

I have never been more confused than I was in his Geog 111a class. To this day, I'm still not entirely sure what the class was supposed to teach us. Probably useful to motivated geography majors who explore the supplemental materials provided, otherwise seemed like a unit-filler class. If I had to sum Kostas up in one word though, it would be: cool

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GEOG111 . 14 Years Ago

Thee best geog. teacher at UCSB. But his classes are hard to come by

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