Prof. Treude is a great professor and made this the easiest class ever! She can be a bit dull sometimes and does just read off the slides but they are always very clear and she uploads all the slides afterward. The comments about her German accent are unfounded—her accent is not thick at all and far from a level where you can't understand her.

Be wary of the lab. They aren't too hard in my opinion but it is a pretty big part of your grade and sometimes the lab quizzes can be tricky. However, two of your worst lab grades are dropped and Prof. Treude gives you extra credit worth 10%.

Labs were almost related to lectures but just had math to it. Lab quizzes were easy somewhat, you just have to remember the slides and pre readings. I didn't read the books she assigned and I got a B+. Lab activities were group assignments. Lectures were kinda boring because Prof. Treude read off slides. it was interestingly challenging but its purely memory-based. She has a German accent, do her a favor and don't enroll if you hate German accents.
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Fun class to learn stuff about the environment if you're a non-stem major trying to cover your GE requirements. I would not recommend this class if you have done your lab requirement, and would only recommend this class if you need to cover it. Lab is a big part of your grade and the lab quizzes given on the weekly basis are quite tough since they are very selective on details. Treude offers easy extra credit and can boost your grade. Emily was a great TA, would recommend because she was very patient and willing to help out during the lab assignments.

Although Treude is a petite individual, she manages to make her presence clear. She does have a German accent, but in my opinion, it did not make understanding her any difficult. Her lectures seemed to go by very slowly although her class was an hour and 15 minutes. I mainly feel like that was because she would primarily read off of the slides and it wasn't really until the end of the quarter that she started to add more input towards the powerpoints. Also, I felt that this class would be fun if it wasn't for the lab portion, which is 40% of your grade (30% weekly lab quiz and 10% lab final). The lab quizzes were generally inconsistent as to how they were structured- sometimes they were fairly easy and sometimes they were fairly hard. They do take off the 2 worst scores but I did fairly poorly on the exams even though I studied a day before and studied before the class started. Also, the mid-term was structured in a very basic manner, but I also did not do as I thought I would because I did not know how to study but it's literally just memorizing the powerpoints. The 10% portion of the extra credit is very generous by part of Treude, but it can only help so much. If you do poorly on the labs quizzes and on the lab final, you MUST do good on the both the mid-term and final. I would recommend this class, but it is not one I thoroughly enjoyed since it was highly memory based and not hands-on as I thought it would be.