This class is an easy A only if you put in the work. I COMPLETED EVERY GAME in the Gaming Platform and this is required for an A. Had I not done this, I would have ended with an A-. For the weekly papers you will have to write throughout the quarter, please do them in a group of 3. This is what I did and it made life so much easier. My group would split up the work for each paper as evenly as we could each week so I never had to spend too much time writing my assigned portion. Also, DO ALL THE EXTRA CREDIT Professor Lohmann provides. These EC opportunities are not at all time consuming, yet she still gives you about a week to complete them. If you do all this, this class will be a breeze and an A is guaranteed.

I actually enjoyed this class. It was something different, but I understand why some people might struggle because it requires being able to analyze data and create graphs. Lohmann is one of the most helpful professors at UCLA. Her expectations are so clear, she wants her students to succeed, and is in constant contact to make sure students stay on track. I recommend!

DO!!!!NOT!!!TAKE!!!THIS!!!CLASS!!!
the workload is definitely NOT worth the fact that it is online and you can work remotely at home. The assignments are incredibly tedious and your game score constantly fluctuates so theres no way of completely knowing where you stand in the class. Her instructions are incredibly overwhelming to look at and she expects you to write and answer a bunch of questions to her prompts with such a limited amount of pages. Also, if you are not good at data analysis and working with Microsoft excel, you're screwed. You have to create two tables every week and she barely instructs you on how to do it so if you don't know how to do it it'll be very difficult. Take my advice and don't take this class if you're looking for something easy and not time consuming.

This is my second class with Professor Lohmann. It is 10 weekly reports with a fixed grading scale and each with 10% of your grade. She drops your two lowest scores and I think either three or four of them are raised to being 15% of your grade instead of 10%. There is extra credit given throughout the quarter but you are never 100% sure where you stand in the class. If you put effort in and do all the reports it is very possible to get an A but there is also stress involved. There is also games that you play that based upon your cumulative gaming score will give you a boost to your final grade.

For my quarter Professor Lohmann structured it as an online class. She makes taking an online class a bit less scary because she is very detailed and attentive to any questions her students may have. There is quite a bit of reading because you must reference articles in your weekly data reports. You ought to keep up with homework as well. Pay attention to all of the emails and announcements she sends out.

I highly suggest this class to anybody who has a busy/sporadic schedule because the class allows you do finish assignments on your own time.