JOSEPH C A
Ppl love him, but he just puts up slides and talks at you, and it is so hard for me to learn like that. I literally can't tell what the most important thing to take in and remember for the tests is. Also, his practice tests are WAY easier than the actual tests and therefore not helpful at all.
Only time I've ever gotten a C in the class. I would come in prepared for tests and then totally fail them. I like him as a professor- he has lots of helpful material on his canvas, but for some reason those tests are super bad.
Really good at explaining main ideas but you have to do a lot of work outside of lecture to get a good grade. Book problems and ALEKS are really helpful. Puts questions from the book problems and midterms on the final.
Good teacher, tests are difficult. You need to completely understand how to do all the book problems forwards and backwards to do well on the tests. He does tell you how to succeed, but there are a lot of book problems for each chapter, making it easy to fall behind. Provides resources and tells you how to succeed, but exams are very difficult.
Clear lectures with clear expectations for exams. Do the work he tells you to do outside of class and you will do well in the course. Curve is helpful and reasonable. No nonsense guy which I personally liked.
Joseph offered so many resources to help students out; recorded lectures, uploaded all slides, provided so many practice problems. Chem is inherently challenging so the course was not easy, but Joseph did all that he could to prepare students. There was a large curve at the end and he will potentially round grades even after the curve.