Frontiers of Science-disc · Columbia College Core
1000 point total; all assignments add to 1000 points, midterm 250 points, final 350 points, lots of assignments and group activities in class.
This guy is the absolute goat; cares for students, down to earth, makes class very easy and light for first-years. Understands our pains, and offers ample opportunities for extra credit. Cannot recommend enough take his class - I'm in his other Science B class this year and love his enthusiasm. He concisely summarizes what will be on the frosci exams and leaves no guesswork
Homework worth 22.5% of your grade, with a third of those being completion based. Be warned that he will grade the homework’s very harshly, but gives you the answer key after submission and offers half points back for corrections. Group project worth 25% of your grade, not time consuming at all if your group mates aren’t bad. 10% participation grade, show up to class and do his activities (they’re actually kinda fun). A midterm worth 15% and a final worth 25% of your grade. There were 14 extra credit opportunities worth a 0.3% boost to your grade each, so if you managed to do all of them that’s a 4.2% increase or a full letter grade bump.
One thing I think everyone who takes Luber can agree on is that you can’t fall asleep during his lectures, not because he’s on you but because he’s hilarious and unfiltered. As far as I know his grading scheme is slightly more generous but overall not too different from other seminar instructors. While I personally bombed several homework assignments, he offers a bunch of extra credit during the semester that’s factored in as extra points towards the total. If you put in a good effort then at worst you end up with an A-.
weekly homework, semester project, midterm, final
He’s the kind of professor who seems really nice and tells you you’ll do well in the class, but then ends up giving bad grades. He’s not very responsive to emails and avoids talking about grades