CS 6501
Special Topics in Computer Science
Course Description
Prerequisites
Instructor permission
Course content varies by section and is selected to fill timely and special interests and needs of students. See CS 7501 for example topics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Instructors
Qizhe Cai
Fall 2026
tuth 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
4.00
GPA
Chen Chen
Fall 2026
mowe 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.96
GPA
Zezhou Cheng
Fall 2026
mowe 5:00pm - 6:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.89
GPA
Matheus Ferreira
Fall 2026
fr 2:00pm - 4:30pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.50
GPA
Tom Fletcher
Fall 2026
tuth 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.84
GPA
Farzad Hassanzadeh
Fall 2026
tuth 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.55
GPA
Yen-Ling Kuo
Fall 2026
mowe 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.73
GPA
Xi Peng
Fall 2026
mowe 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Kun Qian
Fall 2026
mowe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
4.00
GPA
Kevin Sullivan
Fall 2026
mowe 11:00am - 12:15pm
1.3
Rating
1.0
Difficulty
3.87
GPA
Chen-Yu Wei
Fall 2026
mowe 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.98
GPA
Jing Yang
Fall 2026
tuth 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Zhe Zeng
Fall 2026
mowe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.65
GPA
Miaomiao Zhang
Fall 2026
mowe 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.88
GPA
Homa Alemzadeh
Spring 2026
tuth 2:00pm - 3:15pm
2.0
Rating
2.0
Difficulty
3.85
GPA
Rohan Chandra
Spring 2026
mowe 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.86
GPA
Hadi Daneshmand
Spring 2026
tuth 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Jack Davidson
Spring 2026
mowe 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.52
GPA
Ferdinando Fioretto
Spring 2026
tuth 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.94
GPA
Wajih Hassan
Spring 2026
tuth 5:00pm - 6:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.87
GPA
Adwait Jog
Spring 2026
tuth 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.95
GPA
Henry Kautz
Spring 2026
tuth 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
4.00
GPA
Jundong Li
Spring 2026
mowe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.82
GPA
Chang Lou
Spring 2026
mowe 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.82
GPA
Yanjun Qi
Spring 2026
tuth 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.89
GPA
Kevin Skadron
Spring 2026
tuth 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.97
GPA
Yixin Sun
Spring 2026
tuth 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.90
GPA
Tianhao Wang
Spring 2026
mowe 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.85
GPA
To Announced
Fall 2025
MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Brad Campbell
Fall 2025
MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Yue Cheng
Fall 2025
MoWe 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.99
GPA
Seongkook Heo
Fall 2025
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.83
GPA
Arsalan Heydarian
Fall 2025
MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.76
GPA
Yangfeng Ji
Fall 2025
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.87
GPA
Wenxi Wang
Fall 2025
TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.98
GPA
Madhur Behl
Spring 2025
MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.70
GPA
Wajih Ul Hassan
Spring 2025
TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Yu Meng
Spring 2025
MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.95
GPA
Nicola Bezzo
Fall 2024
We 12:30pm - 1:45pmTu 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.49
GPA
Afsaneh Doryab
Fall 2024
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.68
GPA
David Evans
Fall 2024
MoWe 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.98
GPA
Aman Shrivastava
Fall 2024
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Sebastian Elbaum
Fall 2023
MoWe 11:00am - 12:15pm
3.7
Rating
4.0
Difficulty
3.62
GPA
Hongning Wang
Fall 2023
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.62
GPA
Yonghwi Kwon
Spring 2023
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.88
GPA
Ashish Venkat
Spring 2023
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.68
GPA
Hao Lou
Fall 2022
MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Shangtong Zhang
Fall 2022
TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.87
GPA
Scott Acton
Spring 2022
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Stefan Bekiranov
Spring 2022
TuTh 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Hanjie Chen
Spring 2022
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Aakrosh Ratan
Spring 2022
TuTh 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
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GPA
Nathan Sheffield
Spring 2022
TuTh 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Faculty Staff
Spring 2022
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Rating
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Difficulty
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GPA
Chongzhi Zang
Spring 2022
TuTh 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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Rating
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Difficulty
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GPA
Samira Khan
Fall 2021
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.87
GPA
Toluwalogo Odumosu
Fall 2021
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.80
GPA
Vicente Ordonez-Roman
Fall 2021
5.0
Rating
4.0
Difficulty
3.85
GPA
Lu Feng
Spring 2021
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.92
GPA
Mary Soffa
Spring 2021
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.95
GPA
Haifeng Xu
Spring 2021
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.81
GPA
Haiying Shen
Fall 2020
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.66
GPA
John Stankovic
Fall 2020
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.82
GPA
Yuan Tian
Fall 2020
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.99
GPA
Ronald Williams
Fall 2019
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.85
GPA
Aidong Zhang
Fall 2019
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.75
GPA
Dimitrios Diochnos
Spring 2019
3.3
Rating
3.0
Difficulty
3.91
GPA
Nikolaos Sidiropoulos
Spring 2019
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.49
GPA
David Wu
Spring 2019
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.60
GPA
Marty Humphrey
Fall 2018
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.85
GPA
Aritra Konar
Fall 2018
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.20
GPA
Upsorn Praphamontripong
Fall 2018
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.82
GPA
Abbas Co
Spring 2018
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Mohammad Ghidary
Spring 2018
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Connelly Barnes
Fall 2017
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.81
GPA
Bradford Campbell
Fall 2017
5.0
Rating
1.0
Difficulty
3.95
GPA
Quanquan Gu
Fall 2017
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.78
GPA
Cameron Whitehouse
Fall 2017
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.91
GPA
Kai-Wei Chang
Spring 2017
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.77
GPA
Baishakhi Ray
Spring 2017
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.80
GPA
Wei Wang
Spring 2016
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.87
GPA
Alfred Weaver
Spring 2016
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.69
GPA
Andrew Grimshaw
Fall 2015
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.76
GPA
Jason Bhuiyan
Spring 2015
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Philip Asare
Spring 2014
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Joanne Dugan
Spring 2014
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Rating
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Difficulty
—
GPA
Abhi Shelat
Spring 2014
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.77
GPA
Jason Lawrence
Spring 2012
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.60
GPA
John Knight
Fall 2011
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Rating
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Difficulty
4.00
GPA
Thomas Hall
Spring 2011
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.75
GPA
Katherine Holcomb
Spring 2011
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.76
GPA
Sudhanva Gurumurthi
Fall 2009
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Rating
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Difficulty
3.91
GPA