I love this class! This was probably the most fun class I've ever taken, the whole class was about making maps and manipulating them. It was super fun and one of the easiest GE's. The maps were occasionally time confusing but all the tutorials were on the class website. I would feel so accomplished every time I made a map. You don't really interact with the professor since most of the class is asynchronous based but if you need to take a GE, I would take this. The only time you would need to show up was for the labs and you would be able to finish most of your work for the week by then.

Really interesting class. Learn a whole hell of a lot. Just extremely time consuming, and frustrating at times. Liked the online format a lot, alongside the work at your pace. If plan on taking this class, I suggest you start assignments early, as troubleshooting the assignments take forever.

Overall, definitely a really cool class, would take again. Just know that going into it that it's a lot of work.

This class, especially for my quarter, has been entirely online. All lectures and assignments for each week are well-structured, which you will get used to them after the first few weeks. In my opinion, the lectures are short and concise, and the screencast for technical demonstrations are very helpful as step-by-step explanations, so you can keep up very easily. The deadline for this class is very strict, so you need to follow the deadlines for each week. This class takes around 10-12 hours (or sometimes up to 20 hours if the project is complicated) of your time a week to finish all the lectures, readings, and assignments. Even though the workload is a bit too much, you will learn a lot from this class. The projects each week have been interesting to me. The class content is neither too easy nor too hard; somewhat easy but somewhat challenging in some topics. In my quarter, the professor canceled the final project, so all the grades will depend on the past assignments. All the reading quizzes are unlimited attempts, so you can expect good scores from the reading quizzes portion. I personally have never been to any of the professor's office hours, but I have been to my TA's office hours and I think they are very supportive and helpful. Overall, I would recommend this class, but keep in mind that this is not the easiest GE class. I would not recommend anyone to take it for GE unless you are interested in this field or want to challenge yourself. You need to put the effort in, but you will also gain a lot as well.

Intro to GIS was an online class that included a weekly quiz, discussion and a weekly assignment. Quiz questions came from the online textbook and he weekly videos. Weekly assignments were interesting and their were several videos to help show you what to do and lead you in the right direction. This is a large online class and it really depends how your lab is for grading and help. I had lisa Martinez in an online setting and she was great. She was always willing to help and her grading was fair. This class has interesting and relevant content but it requires self motivation to stay on top.

PEDANTIC and unclear expectations.

You only get 20/20 on assignments if you go "Above and Beyond" but this is not defined. Classmates and I would make multiple additional maps for an assignment, add multiple extra layers and do extra analysis only to get DOCKED points because the TA "didn't like the colors used" ( there is no set criteria... its just whim of TA's).

Our TA Elizabeth Fard, constantly answers questions with "I don't know" and is very unhelpful. Shin takes days to answers questions.

I have never had a class that reprimands you for doing extra work, honestly, it's ridiculous.

I took this class as a requirement for my major, or else I would not have ever enrolled. The online format was nice, but purely the amount of work that Prof. Shin required every week was simply too much for an intro class. The projects were easy, but time consuming. The worst part of this class is that, at most, you can only score an 18/20 on these projects, unless you do the unclear "extra" work to get the remaining points, which is frustrating if you spend hours on the project, do it correct, and then are told that you have to do more.

Took this class purely because it was an online GE. However, I ended up loving the subject and I am now minoring in GIS & Tech. You could be a history major or theatre major, and I promise you this class and minor will be of use to you. SO many applications for this. However, the class was kind of challenging only because there was really nothing stopping you to procrastinate and get everything done until last minute. This class is easy and fun as long as you learn to space your week out and get everything done in a timely way. I hope whoever ends up taking this class loves it as much as I did!

The class, itself, was pretty awesome. The fact that I enjoyed it so much partly scared me (am I really that much of a nerd?). My TA (Nerve) was really helpful, and his labs were awesome. The homework was stressful, but the videos walked you through them, and they were super fun to do! I plan on showing my maps toeveryone I know. This class helps you create things you can be proud of, honestly. There were a few glitches in the quizzes and midterms (they're online), but the course is relatively new, so they should deal with that soon enough. The final project is hard, but doable. And when you're done with it, you'll be super proud of yourself. The professor's videos made me sleepy, but those were only needed for the quizzes, so you'll live.

Do NOT take this class unless you ABSOLUTELY have to. If you do, try to get Scott as a TA he's awesome and will make everything ok.

The class is online except for section, but section is really just meant to answer questions about the weekly project. Most of the grade was based on weekly maps we had to make. Not too hard but did require some time to get them right. Ended up with an A- because I got bad grades on assignments at the beginning before I knew what the professor was looking for. Not the easiest GE but I enjoyed learning how to use the computer program we worked with.