Current instructor

Amy Cochran

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Raw average: 4.67/5 from 9 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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341 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Gives great intuition without taking away the beauty of abstract mathematics.
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341 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Great professor. Very good at explaining proofs.
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341 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Super great teacher. She cares about her students and her teaching a lot. The course is well organized and the exams and homework are reasonable.
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551 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Dr. Cochran has that rarest of all teaching qualities: She actually cares about students learning.
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551 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
(for 431) Professor Cochran was delightful and accessible. She made the material more engaging and encouraged peer to peer conversations to work on collaboration and better understanding.
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632 · course not matched
Quality 2/5Difficulty 5/5
She is super enthusiastic, helpful worksheets (in terms of assignments), but she gives extremely hard homework and grade exams very though. I study based on reading the course-provided notes and thinking the homework.
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Classes with Amy Cochran

MATH 331

Introductory Probability

3 credits

Covers axioms, distributions, expectation, inequalities, and limit theorems.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Amy CochranBenedek Valko

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2024–Spring 2026
POPHLTH 699

Independent Reading

1–5 credits

POPHLTH 699 is an independent reading course providing advanced training and information on specific research problems under department staff supervision.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Stephanie RobertAmy Cochran+30 more

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample
POPHLTH 990

Research

1–8 credits

POPHLTH 990 is a research course where students conduct supervised research under individual faculty members.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Stephanie RobertAmy Cochran+27 more

No recorded grade history

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Fall 2026BMI/POPHLTH 661Causal Inference, Surveys and Missing Data for Population Health
Fall 2026MATH 331Introductory Probability
Fall 2026MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2026POPHLTH 699Independent Reading
Fall 2026POPHLTH 990Research

Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.

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