Very difficult exam, harsh grader, avoid at all cost!!!
Darby was the nicest chem teacher I've had at UCSB, but she was the hardest to follow. She's a good person but not a very good teacher.
Feldwinn made chemistry so interesting and understandable. her lectures are a little fast paced so use CLAS if necessary. GO TO OFFICE HOURS. she really wants to get to know her students and is very approachable. she explains the concepts in different ways until you grasp it. love love love Feldwinn
Dr. Feldwinn provides a great learning atmosphere that originates from her passion and zeal for educating students about general chemistry. She is very accessible during office hours and she is willing to meet outside of office hours as well. She makes sure you understand the material and is patient when working with you.
I learned a lot from her. She is really good about helping students if you have questions. The midterms are free response so you can get partial credit. A lot of what is on the midterms is things you've already seen on the practice midterms and questions form class. She offers extra credit. Tests are tough but you will learn a lot
Dr. Feldwinn was BY FAR the best gen chem teacher I had. You can really tell she loves to teach and wants her students to get excited to learn chemistry. Her exams are difficult but she never tests on things she didn't go over in class. If you review her slides and practice exams, you'll get at least a B.
Professor Feldwinn is a hard teacher, there is no doubt you will have to work much more in her class. However, if you are a hard worker you should be thrilled to have her. She is a great teacher and extremely helpful. Her exam style is not multiple choice which prepares you much more for upper division classes.
the average for the first midterm was 43%. She is a terrible teacher. The average partially reflects her teaching skills.
Don't take her unless you have absolutely no choice. If you do have to take her, do ALL the book problems; she gets most of her test questions from the textbook and ALEKS. I went to office hours and it was actually very helpful, I wouldn't have passed without going.
Do not take this lecture
DO NOT TAKE.
Really good lecturer and made things super understandable and easy to follow along. Walks through problems with you. Having said that, really hard quizzes and tests (much harder than most of the stuff learned in class). Book problems are a must. Only teaches 8 ams. Honestly one of my favorite chem professors due to her lecture style but hard class.
Learned a lot but it is almost impossible to get an A in this class.
Never take her. Never take her class. She made me sit in a WET seat during an exam because there was a leak in the building. She is also a horrible professor. Never take her class.
So much extra credit and the problems for the midterms are exactly the problems we do in class (iclickers, notes, etc), before class, aleks, book problems, quizzes, and midterm practice. The answers are the exact same. It does take a lot of work and time to do all the problems but I promise if you just do all the problems assigned you can pass.
If you can get a diff chem teacher, do it. She lectures too fast, quizzes are hard, and her tests have FRQs with no half credit. Office hours are semi-helpful, but she's mostly just yelling in your face lol. But if you're stuck with Feldwinn, just LOCK IN. Go to every lecture, do your book problems, sign up for CLAS. Good luck
Save yourself; don't take her class. Her exams are super difficult -- there are a lot of free-response questions, but she only grades your final answer. Her class is significantly harder than all the other chem professors'. If you don't understand every single textbook, in-class, and Aleks problem, you're screwed. CLAS is the only reason I passed.
Feldwinn 1B would be an okay class if we were on a semester schedule…but we're not. She gives an unbelievable amount of homework for being a gen chem class and her syllabus is nothing like the other professors. She also puts a midterm on the last day to withdraw so if you think you're going to fail don't wait for your scores to come out just drop.
Excessive amount of work to do for this class. She has no empathy (grades quite harshly if your work does not say exactly what she wants). Her canvas is so confusing. No crazy exams but lots of time outside of the class. Good luck if you have to take her; she will you alive. If you don't have to take her, run fast in the opposite direction!
excessive amount of work. canvas: confusing. professor: no empathy (grades quite harshly if your work does not say exactly what she wants) No crazy exams but lots of time outside of class. Good luck if you have to take her, she will you eat you alive.
The midterms are horrible and I truly don't understand why they are not multiple choice if she is not grading our work /steps. Most of the class is failing midterms and despite the average being 44 SHE DIDNT CURVE IT. I genuinely wish I could have taken any other teacher before commuting the mistake of taking her class.
The way feldwinn's lecture is ran is WAY to fast where I spend the entire lecture just trying to write down what was just said and no time to absorb what it means. iClicker (mandatory attendance) is straight up stupid, ESPCIALLY since its graded on correctness. Overall, patronizing to her students and doesnt treat them like adults.
Professor Feldwinn was a decent teacher. She reads from her slides and asks for questions. She uses alkes and you HAVE to pay 100 dollars for the website. She does not understand your personal situations most of the time. And when the class starts at 8am she ends the attendance question at 8am that means getting there by 7:45am or so
She is a difficult professor, and mostly lives up to her reputation. However as long as you do every single one of the practice problems assigned, you should be fine. She's definitely not the best at explaining some topics, but all the questions on her test are taken from practice problems she's assigned, so not too bad.
