If you have any coding experience whatsoever, this class is incredibly easy. I am a CS major and R was so similar to Python that the first couple weeks were almost just a review of CS1110. I took this class not to satisfy any requirement, but just because I wanted to learn R. Your grade is 70% homework and 30% final project. The homework takes 2 hours at the most and there are ample office hours to get help. The TA will give you everything you need at office hours to get it done. Prof Bagley is cool and makes the lectures as enjoyable as they can be with the content. It's listed as a 75 minute lecture, but he lets everybody go after 45 minutes and the rest of the class is just extra office hours. That being said, lecture is not absolutely necessary if you're fine with going through the lecture code by yourself/googling R syntax to figure out how to do the homework. Cannot recommend this class enough.

I cannot recommend this course. I took this as a requirement to declare Psychology as my major, and I suffered through all 16 weeks of this organized chaos. Bagley is a great person, he's funny and down to earth, but as a teacher, avoid him like the plague. All he does it read off of his pre-prepared R Studio notes, which are not easy to follow along with. The class format consists of him running various lines of pre-prepared code without telling you the specifics about each line of code; therefore, for someone that does not have any experience with statistics or coding with R, you will absolutely be struggling in this class. There is virtually no helpful explanation from this professor. Although this is an introductory course, his lectures give off the vibe that he expects that his students already know the basics. I know this is a required course for Psychology majors now, but if anyone else is teaching, maybe you will have better luck than I did.