After reading these ratings at the beginning of the quarter I thought "Maybe he isn't that bad" I greatly underestimated just how bad someone could be at teaching. The lectures were unorganized, he constantly made mistakes, made topics overly complicated, etc. Possibly the worst experience I've ever had with an educator. Avoid if possible.

He was always asking for ways to improve his lectures. However, I often found his lectures to be a bit unorganized. In my opinion, you definitely need to read the textbook to do well in this class. Gave lots of extra-credit. Overall a very kind and caring professor, lectures could be improved a bit so give him suggestions if he asks!

Schley is an amazing teacher and person. He was genuinely interested in the things he taught and that made his class all the better. His office hours were great and at the end gave copious amounts of extra credit so grades weren't an issue. Its a upper-div math class so you should prepare as such. If you don't like it take a comm class lol.

His lectures are extremely unorganized and complicate the material. He treats the textbook like it's a sacred text and his approach to teaching is "I am a guide but I can't make you learn the material." Unbelievable amount of homework. Despite this, he is very forgiving and accommodating when the class is struggling.

Don't take this course with this person if you are okay with poor-quality teaching, I'd wish I could sign up with Professor Porter instead of this guy, he is not meant to teach at the university, confuses people even more.

He was a very nice guy. Cared about his students and gave extra credit on our homework. The average grade in our class was really high, so he obviously did a good job teaching the material.

Very boring lecture and very heavy homework. Office hours is not helpful at all. Avoid him if you can.

Very hands-off teaching style, but he will help you if you go to office hours. Super important to find a group you trust to succeed. 2 Midterms and 1 Collab Final Project with Homework due every week. Can be seen as too much to learn by yourself, but he'll work with you

He is kind. He does not go very in depth into the content and lectures are short. 102A is very group oriented which it makes it quite easy. Workload is light. I enjoyed the final project and presentation.

nathan loves math and wants us to succeed. if you do the hw and take notes from lectures and/or textbook you will do well. the course is well designed and lectures and hw are helpful, but people have bad attitudes and complain. tests aren't too hard you just need to know the concepts; lin alg is very conceptual. 11% extra credit for doing hw early.

I took Math 8 with Nathan in the summer, and I had a great time in this course. His lectures help you summarize the chapters of the textbook, so reading the textbook is very important. Please study for this course if you want a good grade! I didn't study enough and got a B+.

I took Math 8 over the summer with Nathan, and all I can say is that he was great. I think this is the first class I take at UCSB where I don't feel forced to watch online videos to actually understand what is going on. That said, we had lots of homework and some problems were very involved. Also, this guy takes deadlines very seriously.

I enjoyed his teaching more than I had anticipated based on his other reviews. He's incredibly dedicated to helping students understand course material. Lectures are heavy on student engagement: it's awkward when the class is quiet, but participate and you'll learn much better. Homework is harder than assessments; grading is generous w/ EC offered.

He is a fun teacher but doesn't have a focus on his lecture.

He does not accept any late homework even if you have appropriate excuses. He forces students to engage in class and no one responds, which is super awkward. He only spends time on the easy parts of the course but doesn't teach well on the hard parts.

I took his math111 series throughout my third year in UCSB. Even though the course material is really hard and tedious, he tried his best to make it funny and easy to understand. He is a really fantastic and friendly prof. Moreover, there would be some big curve (upward curve) for the students so that we could get good grade. He is really good!!!!

His lectures aren't organized, he has poor time management and expects us to know almost everything already so he teaches us as if we're reviewing the topics, never really getting deeper into how to do problems. He's very nice and wants his students to succeed but he is just horrible at teaching

This professor is absolutely horrible, he teaches only by giving examples and is horrible at explaining any of the concepts. The average on all of the midterms have been extremely low and he is claiming that he will not curve the class

Schley is one of the worst teachers I've ever had, for ANYTHING. He's very nice and personable, but his teaching style is impressively horrible, teaching the whole course through example problems and only briefly explaining core concepts. The homework is also useless and unhelpful, as he likes to jump around without ANY consistency whatsoever.

bro everyone said this was an easy class but there is no curve and the average on the midterms has been consistently below 60%

Horrible at explaining, and the homework and tests do not correlate to what we learn in class. this should be an easy class but he has made it extremely difficult

This class is terrible. The TA is unkind and not helpful whatsoever, he also is extremely judgmental. The teacher is nice but the lectures make zero sense and neither does the homework. Compared to the other teachers that teach this taking this class with him is like taking a completely different class.

He's a very caring professor and you can tell he wants his students to succeed but I don't think he prepares his students well because his lecturers consist of examples on topics he expects u to already know. I don't think he's good at teaching only because I never felt prepared enough even with CLAS, you basically teach urself all the material.

If you want to truely learn and grasp Abstract Algebra, stay away from this professor.