BIRD Courses @ UTSG Campus

[kennyc516]

EAS102 is an easy course, esp. if you like the content (and as an EAS Specialist I surely do). I know Guisso pretty well, and he's a great Prof.

Thanks Ma_Jie

What exactly do we study in EAS102?
It's civilization, so does that mean we have a lot to memorize for exams and such, and do we have essays to write for that course?

Being an immigrant, I dont have a lot on confidence in writing essays

[CJJ25]

i am interested in the 2nd year social psych course...it has a mad wait list thou, any idea if that will be reduced to 0 before school starts? lol

[Pricyber]

HPS385 or something History of Computers
Hell boring class, but easy marks

[Ma_Jie]

EAS102 is a general survey course of East Asian civilization, from the earliest times to about the year 1600. Because Guisso is a Chinese specialist -- much of his work revolves around gender issues in pre-modern China -- the course is, not surprisingly, very heavy on China. That being said, there should be, roughly, 18-20 lectures on China, 4 on Japan, and 1-2 on Korea. In general, the reading material is simple, and you can easily get an A if you attend lectures and tutorials.

Tutorial attendance and participation is crucial for success in the course, and I believe TAs have now begun assigning tutorial assignments in order to ensure attendance; but when I took the course a few years ago this was not the case.

Furthermore, while you are not required to go beyond the materials assigned in class, Guisso, and the TAs, will surely be impressed if you do; so if you want to receive an A+, say, as I did, you should consult a variety of sources. There are three in-class essay-based tests, which consist of short-answer questions and one large essay question. And for the exam you'll probably have to write 2 or 3 essays; so, to answer your question, memorization is important as is the interpretations and arguments you present.

I am unsure who will be the TAs this year, but if you can, try to get into Yi Lidu's or Allan Haaheim's tutorials (assuming they are part of the TA group this year); they are both terrific instructors who are passionate and extremely knowledgeable.

Cheers,

Jie
EAS Specialist

[kennyc516]

EAS102 is a general survey course of East Asian civilization, from the earliest times to about the year 1600. Because Guisso is a Chinese specialist -- much of his work revolves around gender issues in pre-modern China -- the course is, not surprisingly, very heavy on China. That being said, there should be, roughly, 18-20 lectures on China, 4 on Japan, and 1-2 on Korea. In general, the reading material is simple, and you can easily get an A if you attend lectures and tutorials.

Tutorial attendance and participation is crucial for success in the course, and I believe TAs have now begun assigning tutorial assignments in order to ensure attendance; but when I took the course a few years ago this was not the case.

Furthermore, while you are not required to go beyond the materials assigned in class, Guisso, and the TAs, will surely be impressed if you do; so if you want to receive an A+, say, as I did, you should consult a variety of sources. There are three in-class essay-based tests, which consist of short-answer questions and one large essay question. And for the exam you'll probably have to write 2 or 3 essays; so, to answer your question, memorization is important as is the interpretations and arguments you present.

I am unsure who will be the TAs this year, but if you can, try to get into Yi Lidu's or Allan Haaheim's tutorials (assuming they are part of the TA group this year); they are both terrific instructors who are passionate and extremely knowledgeable.

Cheers,

Jie
EAS Specialist

Hey Jie
thanks so much for your help
Cmon more RFDers get in this course

[Coolin]

Damn straight.

Here is a website that might be helpful: http://www.birdcourses.com/

MAT224H1 - Linear Algebra II

Birdiness: 5.00 out of 5 1 Vote(s)

Offered: Winter

Course Description: Abstract vector spaces: subspaces, dimension theory. Linear mappings: kernel, image, dimension theorem, isomorphisms, matrix of linear transformation. Changes of basis, invariant spaces, direct sums, cyclic subspaces, Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Inner product spaces, orthogonal transforamtions, orthogonal diagonalization, quadratic forms, positive definite matrices. Complex operators: Hermitian, unitary and normal. Spectral theorem. Isometries of R2 and R3.


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[Kyle_87]

Ewi had enuf in linear algebra 1 in first year.. no thanks lol

[dmdsoftware2]

MAT224H1 - Linear Algebra II

Birdiness: 5.00 out of 5 1 Vote(s)

Offered: Winter

Course Description: Abstract vector spaces: subspaces, dimension theory. Linear mappings: kernel, image, dimension theorem, isomorphisms, matrix of linear transformation. Changes of basis, invariant spaces, direct sums, cyclic subspaces, Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Inner product spaces, orthogonal transforamtions, orthogonal diagonalization, quadratic forms, positive definite matrices. Complex operators: Hermitian, unitary and normal. Spectral theorem. Isometries of R2 and R3.


Thanks for the great link! Sounds like the easiest c
ourse ever!

How the heck is this a bird course? It's not an easy 4.0.