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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR220 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/17/2024 |
This class was very interesting, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to either satisfy General Education credits or explore the astronomy minor. The class was highly based around group projects, but Professor Sunshine took many precautions to ensure that fair and satisfactory work was being done by each group member. Students were also given an option to privately inform Professor Sunshine at the beginning of the semester about people they did or did not want to work with. My only problem with Professor Sunshine is that she did not provide feedback for exams and was unclear about how to access past exams. As such, it was challenging to improve upon test scores with limited feedback. This was less of a problem, however, as most of the grade for this class comprised of the group projects. |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR220 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/18/2023 |
We got donut holes and TA gave us stickers for the Final Exam! The class was not easy to get an A in, but the professor was really nice and caring for the students. Overall great professor to have! |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/29/2022 |
Class was asynchronous in nature, with all homework assignments being due at the end of the semester. The material is interesting and was an easy gen ed |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR430 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/16/2022 |
Jessica is incredibly passionate as a lecturer and very engaging. Took this class as a tech elective for aeroE (without any prior ASTR classes) and it is my favorite class ever. The bandwidth of learning in this class is extremely high and it's very interactive. Highly recommend her and this class as well! |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR100 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/13/2022 |
Very amazing professor and TAs are great too. Class is easy, almost too easy, but very interesting and you learn a ton of information in the process. Take this class if you need the credit or are just interested in the Astronomy in the slightest bit and have room in you schedule. |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2021 |
Amazing professor who understand what it takes to teach this course. It is almost entirely self-paced, which is good for some people. Just make sure you remember deadlines and don't save all of the work until the last day. The projects are easy and kind of fun. She does a ton of demonstrations in class which is super super cool |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/04/2021 |
Great and pretty easy class. For the fall semester of '21 the class was mostly a bunch of online work that you could do at your own pace. It seems like a lot of work but it's pretty easy. She is also very nice and helpful. Highly suggest taking this to fulfil gen ed and for gpa booster. |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR100 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/03/2021 |
This is a great class to fulfill your science gen-ed. It is basically an online self-paced course with a couple of hard deadlines throughout the semester. Therefore, you only go to lecture every two weeks and have one discussion section every week. Even though it is self-paced, do not save everything until the end because that is extremely overwhelming. The lectures and discussions are mandatory attendance because they give an assignment at the end of each discussion and lecture. There is some work, but the quizzes are really easy (if you use online resources wisely) so it doesn't feel like that much over the entirety of the semester. Also, the general coursework is extremely interesting. |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/01/2021 |
Very easy class, half to most of it is online and you only have to come to lecture once a week every Friday, maybe twice. The exams on ELMS are extremely easy and you can figure out the answers very easily (cough cough quizlet cough cough). Attendance to class is mandatory though, they have assignments at the end of every lecture or discussion that you have to turn in. Decent amount of course work though I would consider it simple to do. Overall great class if you need a natural science gen ed with not a lot of time commitment. |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR220 Expecting a B- Anonymous 06/17/2021 |
Class was really interesting, professor Sunshine included plenty of activities to help us grasp the concept of each lecture. I took this course with absolutely no knowledge of Astronomy and I felt like I struggled a bit, but still came out with a B. This course does involve a substantial amount of advanced math calculations and some physics applications so be aware of that. She also does not do well with answering her emails. |
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Jessica Sunshine
ASTR220 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2020 |
I took this during Fall 2019. Pros: + Very clearly passionate about the subject matter, if you like astronomy you'll love this class. + Class content is pretty interesting and made topical through the use of real world examples. + (Kinda) easy A (See below). + Tests are extremely generous. Basically, after you take them, you immediately take the same test again in your group, allowing you to net a lot more points. This is carefully designed to never hurt your grade, only help. Cons: - Despite the course being designated as for nonscience majors, the course actually does require quite a bit of rudimentary knowledge of math, science, and physics. Some help is given during class, but most likely not enough. STEM majors will be fine, but non-STEM majors should be prepared for some additional studying. - Class organization was a bit strange, as we had to take extensive notes of pre-lecture videos that were quite long, but in class lectures mostly didn't go over any new content. |