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.

Lectures could get boring but overall it was a pretty chill class. Paper guidelines were vague and your grade just depended on your TA. Its a good ge requirement.

attend lectures as material in class and the readings are whats on the test. funny lectures but sometimes boring material

Professor Hoelle is super nice and funny! The 2 essays are super easy especially if you have a good TA. The tests were honestly really hard but I managed to pull through with B's on both of them by studying the night before. No curve or negotiating your grade at the end of quarter. Class isn't that bad but I wouldn't take it again.