GBDA 302Global Digital Project 2

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• Karen is an amazing prof! The course syllabus on the first day definitely made my eyes go wide, but once you actually read it and follow the steps it's really just that, following the steps. If you follow the steps you can get 100% with no issue. If you're lazy about it and just rush to finish, you're going to miss things and lose marks. All the weekly activities follow the same format, so you don't even have to read new requirements each week. The submission format/task is the same everytime, just different code. She's willing to teach you and help explain if you don't understand something, and is willing to change a mark if you prove you understand the content. There's not even work…

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• Okay, so this is my third time taking a class with Karen Cochrane, and it's no surprise that it is an absolute trainwreck. Unfortunately, the classes she designs make no sense. A typical class with Karen looks like one hour of lecture that has nothing to do with the assignments, and two hours of answering questions because no one knows what she wants from us. I wish I could say that the 2-hour Q&A actually helps us with our assignments, but unfortunately, I cannot. Every assignment takes us days to figure out exactly what she wants from us, and even then, we typically miss something. No one I know actually knows what she wants from us. A perfect example of this is the process documentation,…

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• We had Karen Cochrane for 301 as a prof and it wasn't any easier the second time around. To make up for her calming down and becoming a bit nicer, the TA's had taken over to become the bane of my existence. They genuinely found joy in gatekeeping information to the point where I questioned if they even knew what was going on themselves. Their grading was not any better as they dished out 70% for journals worth 3% with no feedback or worse 0% for sidequests because of missing or incorrect components such as a genAI process docs which took pulling teeth to understand how they wanted it to be formatted in the first place.
  We had side quests in 301 so they weren't new but this time we were…

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