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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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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

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2026MATH 390Undergraduate Research with Madison Experimental Mathematics Lab
Spring 2026MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2025MATH 341Linear Algebra
Fall 2025MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2025MATH 698Directed Study
Spring 2025MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2024BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
Fall 2024ISYE/MATH/OTM/STAT 632Introduction to Stochastic Processes
Fall 2024POPHLTH 990Research
Spring 2024POPHLTH 990Research
Fall 2023BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
Fall 2023MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2023MATH/STAT 431Introduction to the Theory of Probability
Fall 2023POPHLTH 699Independent Reading
Fall 2023POPHLTH 990Research
Spring 2023MATH 390Undergraduate Research with Madison Experimental Mathematics Lab
Spring 2023MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2023POPHLTH 990Research
Fall 2022BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
Fall 2022ECE/MATH/STAT 888Topics in Mathematical Data Science
Fall 2022MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2022POPHLTH 990Research
Spring 2022ISYE/MATH/OTM/STAT 632Introduction to Stochastic Processes
Spring 2022MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2022POPHLTH 990Research
Fall 2021BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
Fall 2021MATH 699Directed Study
Fall 2021MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2021POPHLTH 990Research
Fall 2020BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
Fall 2020MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2020MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2019BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
Fall 2019MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2019POPHLTH 699Independent Reading
Fall 2018BMI/POPHLTH 551Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health

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