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<\/p>\nI was scrolling through your blog and I noticed that you recommended a course called DTS300 to someone. It sounds really interesting but I can\u2019t find a lot of people talking about it online. Could you tell me more about it, if that\u2019s okay with you? Thanks ?<\/p>\n
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hi there!<\/p>\n
thank you very much for your patience with this answer \u2014 i know it’s been a while!<\/p>\n
sure, i’m happy to tell you more about DTS300 if it’s still relevant. i had to dig up the syllabus to answer this well, which is why the delay. the year i took the class, attendance counted for a chunk of the grade, and then the rest of it was just three short papers and one longer one. the material was very conceptual \u2014 rather than delving into statistical techniques or mathematics the way you would in a regular breadth 5 class, we focused more on how quantitative and qualitative research function in the social world. for example, we looked at how statistics bolstered systemic racism against Black people in the united states.<\/p>\n
i personally really enjoyed the readings and the vibe of the class. despite being a fairly large group (i think 200-300 students), the instructor, kevin o’neill, ran things with a very interactive vibe. each lecture had a bit of an argument, in the sense that there was a conceptual realization o’neill wanted us to arrive at by the end. it was an intellectually challenging course, and i found it very worthwhile.<\/p>\n
keep in mind that all this could change, but that’s what DTS300 was like in my experience. i would definitely recommend it as a breadth 5 course!<\/p>\n
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i hope this provided some more insight into what you might expect if you choose to take it.<\/p>\n
be Boundless,<\/p>\n
aska<\/p>\n
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I was scrolling through your blog and I noticed that you recommended a course called DTS300 to someone. It sounds really interesting but I can\u2019t find a lot of people talking about it online. Could you tell me more about it, if that\u2019s okay with you? Thanks ? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi there! thank you very much for your patience with this answer \u2014 i know it’s been a while! sure, i’m happy to tell you more about DTS300 if it’s still relevant. i had to dig up the syllabus to answer this well, which is why the delay. the year i took the class, attendance counted for a chunk of the grade, and then the rest of it was just three short papers and one longer one. the material was very conceptual \u2014 rather than delving into statistical techniques or mathematics the way you would in a regular breadth 5 class, we focused more on how quantitative and qualitative research function in the social world. for example, we looked at how statistics bolstered systemic racism against Black people in the united states. i personally really enjoyed the readings and the vibe of the class. despite being a fairly large group (i think 200-300 students), the instructor, kevin o’neill, ran things with a very interactive vibe. each lecture had a bit of an argument, in the sense that there was a conceptual realization o’neill wanted us to arrive at by the end. it was an intellectually challenging course, and i found it very worthwhile. keep in mind that all this could change, but that’s what DTS300 was like in my experience. i would definitely recommend it as a breadth 5 course! i hope this provided some more insight into what you might expect if you choose to take it. be Boundless, aska <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breadth-requirements","category-courses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}