Genuinely not meant for first year students and should not be a requirement for those majoring in biology. There should be an easier, more introductory course for those in STEM who do not wish to pursue a career in computer/technological sciences.

Useful up until R Programming. Found it entirely unnecessary. Excel was decent, although I had to teach myself.

Avoid Onoise Gerald Kio at all costs. He is geniunely one of the worst (if not the absolute worst) professor teaching at York and it baffles me that he is still employed. Would stand there, read slides and not EXPLAIN topics, class would blink and then there would be a demo on the board. He would randomly go silent and do things on excel/R without teaching us. He also slipped up that he was more familiar with MatLab, and that he was unfamiliar with R Programming which is something you should not say to a room of 100+ students that are supposed to learn the program from you. Hope he gets fired. Could not tell you one thing I learned from him. There are no pros from Kio.

Go for Andy Mirzaian instead. Only reason why I'm barely passing is due to his recorded lectures.

Overall, it would be fine if it were structured better. Some of the content is interesting, but not useful and we aren't taught how to actually apply the concepts. We're only taught how to read off of the equation sheet and plug and chug. No challenge involved.

Nope, useless. I thought that Fourier Analysis was an interesting concept, but I probably won't ever use it in the future. Most things we learned were already taught by other classes, or should have been in a stats class.

He was willing to answer questions and talk to us, except he was always vague and every answer just brought up more questions. He comes off like a cocky ******* most of the time. When you ask for help, he just talks about "In the past, I've done this or that" and doesn't really answer your questions. And when he grades, he'll be a **** about it, even though it was his inctructions that were unclear and not my interpretation of them. Even so, he doesn't give too bad of grades. Overall, cocky, lazy, and annoying.

Just assume you're interpretation of his instructions are right and you'll do fine. You might need to do some guesswork, though.

The course is very reading intense and writing heavy. She wanted a whole 8 page essay with essay notes that were just as long as the essay itself. All together, the essay portion of the course was worth the most which is ridiculous because its not on something directly related to the course, its a personal interest about catholicism essay.

Again, lots of reading and boring video lectures. They are easy to watch at 2x speed to help with how long they are. The content was kind of all over the place and some of the modules had me wondering what the heck it had to do with the history of the Catholic Church.

She was fine. The feedback given was good and she answered questions relatively quickly.

Know just how much writing and reading there is for this course. The final is in person with an essay portion...

I really enjoyed this course and it was really interesting.

I developed a love for the art of anime and manga.

Professor Suzuki was very kind and gave lots of feedback on work and assignments, along with lots of support when asked.

You do not need any prior knowledge in anime before taking this couse!