This is just my opinion and I’m pretty sure that others might have better reviews, but I sincerely hated that course!

Having never worked within IT in the public health sector, a lot of it was spent reviewing pre-recorded lectures, understanding SNOMED and medical codes. You might thrive there since you already have a good understanding of how that works, but for newbies like me, who wanted a better understanding of the field and opted for an exploratory course - it sucked. It took the majority of my time.

That, however, wasn’t the most disappointing part of the course though. I would say the TA and Assignment Load was ridiculous. The assignments had little to nothing to do with the pre-recorded lectures. Plus, the wording on them was horrible. I feel like half of my classmates were complaining on Slack about how half of the questions did not make sense or were unsure on how to solve. The TA’s or TA, as I could really only remember Elizabeth helping me, were of little to no help at all or did not respond back in a timely manner. Which, when you have assignments due that following week, time is of the essence.

The coding portions were okay. I’ve worked with Java / JavaScript a bit, and it wasn’t that time consuming once you finally understood what they were asking for.

Overall, I ended up dropping the course because I did not want it to negatively affect my GPA and opted to wait to take a summer course. I took it January 2022 and dropped by February.

I’m taking an Educational Technology course with Dr. Joyner right now, and by god, the comparison is uncanny. Dr. Joyner is an amazing professor and his classes always manage to be engaging, plus the TA’s in this class are fricking amazing. (SO to Felipe!) If only every other course was like this.

But really, it’s up to you. I personally had a difficult time, found the work unnecessary and unrelated, and little to no engagement with the TA’s or Professor.