Faculty and students present and critically discuss current chemical literature.
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UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeGraduate students only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeNot the worst, also not the best. He went way too fast on so much complex material and made those things more confusing. Also would take off more points on regrade request exam questions (he did this on the final exam). Also, there was no curve. A bit disorganized and didn't follow his own schedule.
He is def there just for research, his lectures are REALLY fast paced especially for harder topics. Only provided a practice exam for the first midterm, the rest he provided questions for each chapter. He didn't give us practice for an entire chapter until after the exam for midterm 3. Overall not a bad professor, choose lewis if possible.
Truly awful professor. All the midterms had NO partial credit which is absurd considering the other professor teaching the same course had partial credit on his exams. He basically throws you in the deep end and says "good luck". If i could do it over, i would have NEVER chosen his class, absolutely no resources either. Choose a different professor
His slides are good but he goes through them in a way that is way too rushed to actually learn and uses extra time to talk about his research or end class early. Tests are fair, but he often doesn't provide practice tests or chapter questions, so all u have is the textbook to review and he'll never post grades/materials by the time he says
Do not take this prof for 109A. Terrible introduction to ochem. Disorganized, poorly paced, confusing. Lecture slides on canvas did not align with the lecture slides he actually presented. Treated it like we already knew the concepts instead of it being our first time seeing organic chemistry. Only succeeded bc of the textbook.
He was a pretty chill professor for the first few weeks but when we got to the tougher chapters he speed ran them during lecture and oftentimes made mistakes during lectures and in his own practice problems making everything so confusing. I learned most of the material on my own. Overall way TOO fast, brief, contradicting, and confusing lectures.