Material is covered very fast and briefly. There is a unit test every other week, and they do not even give the whole class period to write (45 mins out of 50min lecture). Entire class average was consistently bad, and when students suggested things to help improve the delivery of the content (ie. solutions for practice questions, more time to write, larger desks to write) it was completely ignored. The main challenge of this course is not the material, but the limited time given to complete complex calculations is awful, with no ability to get partial marks. Assessments destroy your GPA especially since you usually don't have time to answer all the questions so you automatically get a 0 for them. Since the unit tests are only ever out of 8-11 questions, one mess up with significant digits...read more

Very math/calculation heavy. Material is probably around 5% concepts and 95% arithmetic calculations. Examples covered in class are not at all what is on exams. Content itself seems useful for land management, and data collection/interpretation for field work or studies.

My prof. for this semester was a TA who was teaching the course for the first time, and it was awful. Lectures were not recorded like previous teachers did for this course, and annotated notes were useless, just highlighted data on the slides and often times solutions/units/significant figures were incorrect on the slides. She only shows up maybe 5 minutes early to tests, so there is no time to ask a quick question or clarification before. Don't bother asking questions because she does not know how to answer them, and you end up more confused.

If you struggle with math and time limits, get academic accommodations set up RIGHT AWAY or else the unit tests are impossible. Also be very familiar with Excel for the lab portion.