SWENSON J S

Julie Swenson

81 reviews
Caring Accessible outside class Clear grading criteria Amazing lectures Skip class? You won't pass. Gives good feedback Test heavy Respected Lecture heavy Graded by few things Tough grader Get ready to read Inspirational Participation matters Lots of homework Tests are tough Online Savvy
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PSTAT 5A
114 / 150 Enrolled
Understanding Data
Julie Swenson 4.6
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08:00 AM - 09:15 AM
PSTAT 130
102 / 125 Enrolled
SAS Base Programming
Julie Swenson 4.6
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09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
PSTAT 501
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Teaching Assistant Training
Julie Swenson 4.6
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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 2 Months Ago

Swenson is a sweet person, and explained course content in a thorough and clear manner. While lectures are online asynchronously, I recommend going to her office hours, hosted during class time for help with homework questions. Beware of the detailed midterm and final worth 70% of your grade (I could only get a C+ with a generous curve).

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PSTAT5A . Swenson J S 3 Months Ago

There was 1 prerecorded lecture and 1 in person lecture per week. The prerecorded lecture was laid out very well so it was easy to take notes and follow along, in person lecture was a review of the recorded one. She curved the final grade. I highly recommend because I'm already recognizing irl concepts that I learned from this class.

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PSTAT5A . Swenson J S 3 Months Ago

Professor Swenson is genuinely one of the kindest people ever. Math isn't my forte and I was really intimidated coming in but she broke down concepts so well and provided so many examples for everything which really helped me. Love her!!! (also the python aspect of this class isn't super serious so don't worry)

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 4 Months Ago

Although the homework was fair and straight to the point, the midterm and final were extremely difficult and unfair. Many MC questions if code was ran the answer would still be the same. Tested on many small minute things that do not help you gain further knowledge. However, she does curve the class grade at the end.

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PSTAT5A . Swenson J S 4 Months Ago

Professor Swenson is really nice. Really passionate about the contents, and would answer a lot of questions you have through easier examples. Though the lectures do need to take some time to adapt to and finish them, but you can do the lectures with your own pace (since part of them are online). A caring professor that can lead you into statistics.

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 5 Months Ago

Homework is not correlated with lecture.

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 5 Months Ago

Vague lecture

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 5 Months Ago

Her online coding lecture is so confused.

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PSTAT5A . Swenson J S 5 Months Ago

Professor Swenson is a sweetheart, caring for her students success. Half the class is asynchronous, so it's nice to go at my own pace and then review the lectures once in person. The only difficulty was 80% was graded on exams, and 20% on participation/attendance. No HW credit, but you are expected to do HW to maintain a good grade.

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 6 Months Ago

Professor Swenson has a very organized class, homework is based purely on lecture material that you watch online. You have one class a week where you can basically just ask for help. My only issue is her exams are insanely hard, you must memorize exact wording from lecture materials. I ended up doing poorly on the both the midterm and final.

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 6 Months Ago

Online lectures and they're only about 1 hr long each week. Didn't have to spend much time on this class which was nice. Exams were pretty difficult though so make sure to watch every lecture and memorize everything.

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PSTAT130 . Swenson J S 1 Year, 7 Days Ago

the best professor in the department in my opinion. Every time I take a class w/ Swenson lectures are clear, concise, & exactly what we need for the exams; with that said, the difficulty spike between the midterm & final is really big, and the multiple choice questions test for EXTREMELY nitpicky/tiny syntax details, some of which feel unnecessary.

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