Basic physics class designed to give ARCH students an understanding of how force systems work inside of buildings. So far, this course is easier than the physics and calc pre-requisite courses I took before applying to the program.

Learn most of the content in lectures, practice assignments in labs. Attendance isn't graded, but feels mandatory because the course is fairly fast-paced.

I can really tell that Pat has grown as a prof over the past couple decades. He acts like the crochety old ARCH professors from the old days, but he teaches like he really wants you to understand the content and pass the course. He's good at it too. The "optional" textbook is just him referencing the book he an another person wrote on the course content. Pat is a great prof.

Just show up to class and take notes.

Not a bird course.

Rude when questions asked

The content is interesting

The professor was clearly looking at previous assignments left from another professor all during the semester. Whenever you have an issue with your code, he barely helps troubleshoot, he'll just paste his working code into Canvas and tell us to copy it, so we never really learned how to troubleshoot

Prepare to be really bored and do more troubleshooting by yourself, since the professor is no help

Pretty easy to take online

ONLY TAKE THIS ONLINE. It's super easy to complete online, don't bother with the in-person sections