Course Summary

QR140 is a course that works to support critical thinking skills that revolve around numbers and data. Given that our lives are awash numeric information, the content that we cover will be applicable in many facets of your life (including subsequent coursework at Wellesley, but also when living your ``real life"). The goal is for students to leave the course with increased familiarity and comfortability with interpretting and manipulating quantitative information: to be shrewd and skeptical when viewing the numeric arguments of others, and to be responsible and convincing when using quantitative data in their own arguments.

Course Instructor

The professor for this class is Andy Schultz. His office is on the fourth floor of the Science Center, room 408. Office hours will be held

For now, we'll plan to convene in or around my office (rom 408 of the science center). In the event that we've got a lot of folks coming to a given office hour, we might go looking for a nearby classroom to house us all. If you'd like to attend office hours via Zoom, please email me ahead of time so I can make sure to be logged into Zoom. In addition to my office hours, we also have an attached tutor for our course. She will be holding office hours every Wednesday evening from 8-9pm outside of room 200G-9 in Clapp library.

You are highly encouraged to attend office hours, and you never need an appointment to do so. If scheduled office hours don't fit with your schedule, please contact the instructor so that he can either adjust when ``official" office hours are held or set up an appointment to help you outside of office hours. Please come to the professor's office or send him an email if you ever want to discuss material from the class or ask about homework problems!

You can contact the instructor at . Though he is always happy to receive emails from you with questions or concerns about the course, he can't guarantee that he'll be able to promptly reply to emails late at night or over the weekend. If you do contact the professor by email, please be sure to follow standard email etiquette. In particular, please make sure you include a greeting and signature and avoid abbreviations. If you're contacting him to ask about a problem, please be sure to specify what the problem asks (as opposed to asking something like ``I can't get problem 2 and need your help").