This class is NOT easy. I'm going straight to the point. The professor's asynchronous lectures don't help very much. The textbook is helpful for the quizzes. T.A is very helpful as well, But, this as your G.E requirement, I would NOT consider it, for the reason being that the midterm and final have different questions and different understandings from what you learn in the asynchronous lectures and the textbook that don't meet the standard of these questions on the midterm and final. Please, take a different G.E., don't consider, it unless you want to challenge yourself or try to major in a specific field that requires this class.

This is not an easy GE. Tests are very difficult and have extremely niche/random questions. Most of the questions are exactly like the chapter reading quizzes(some are the same exact questions). Wouldnt recommend to someone not actually interested in the subject.

This class is so difficult. I thought it would be fairly easy and decided to take it as a GE and it is the hardest GE, if not hardest class, I've taken. I took the asynchronous version of the class and the lectures do not align with the readings and are long and often tangential. You can not tell what the professor is just adding as additional information and things that you need to commit to memory. The midterm and final each make up 20% of the grade. The material itself is not very hard but there is SO MUCH of it and the professor does not test on conceptual understanding. The midterm and final questions come from the book and are extremely niche. Sections of the book that you'd assume are just throw away examples and information actually appear on the tests. I'm not sure if he changed the structure of the class but I would recommend not taking it unless you are majoring in something related to Earth Science or have an extreme interest in this topic.

a lot of cool content to cover, and a self-paced environment that let students tackle the content at their own speed
Professor did not communicate much about his exams, TA's did not know about the content on the exams, no study guide provided for midterm or final