Reviews of professor Alena Kottova

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Zero useful content in this class. I thought there would be interesting ethical discussion/debate but instead its Kottova reading off the most basic useless info and constantly making us yell "yay" in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Get ready to do endless amounts of meaningless work. You are expected to write more words than two first-year english courses combined. 

Alena geared the entire course around AI ethics, which is great if you're one of the 2 or 3 students in the class who will become AI software engineers, for everyone else it was a complete waste of time.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Alena knows this course is a joke so she tries to make it as tolerable as possible. Assignments/projects are boring but easy, 2 online open book midterms, and after the first exam the whole course becomes online self-paced. She'll give you an extension if you ask, she'll remark your work if you ask. Nice lady, sucks she teaches this boring course

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Two pre-recorded lectures a week followed by a quiz which acts as your attendance. The content is quite frankly boring and confusing. The relevant ethics portion is covered by the other unpopular ENGR 497 class. 

The amount of effort/time to watch 2 hours of Vimeo videos is exhausting when really lectures post-pandemic should be in person.