Agree with the last reviewer, except that physics/chem/bio isn't actually necessary for the homework and exams. What is necessary is a lot of quantitative experience up to and including calculus. I survived the ambiguously worded (half because they were trying to get us to think critically about the problem, but ONLY half) homework only because I obtained regular help from a quantitatively inclined friend who was WAY more accessible than the professor or TAs. I got a D on the midterm. Well, actually I don't know that for sure because we were only told what letter grade our score was "around."

The General Studies website lists this class as suitable for non-science majors and says nothing about any prerequisites or required knowledge. It was only on the first day of class that the requirements were made clear to us. I sincerely hope that somebody gets smashed for that little oversight.

The class was very poorly administered. It was clear that there was very little communication between the TAs and professors, which sure sucks for a class of 100+ students which has the aforementioned complications. The professors would come in and not know when the homework was due even though we'd all received an email from the TAs a day or two prior. Then they'd give us a different due date than the TAs had. Assignments were frequently pushed back, which illustrated flexibility on their part, but I got the feeling that the rollbacks were because so many students were having problems with the conflicting feedback and poorly worded assignments. Oh, and I do believe that every single assignment was followed by at least one email providing corrections to the original-wrong numbers, questions that didn't express what was being asked for, etc.

So in conclusion, the subject matter is great, the teachers were enthusiastic and they brought in a lot of guest lecturers, which was great. I learned some cool stuff, most of which I couldn't replicate quantitatively on the hw/exams. But if you had any trouble you were, well...in trouble.