I took calculus in High School and did the mistake of not taking the AP test to avoid this class. While he does provide extra credit on midterms, they're four questions and are graded very harshly. His lectures do not help at all and my grade went from a A- to C on the final.
this class ruined my confidence in math. i can tell he tries to have people learn but he is so confusing and hard to understand (both with speaking and notes):( both midterms were ok, but the final was so bad it brought me from a A+ to a C+. curve was not great even tho many people struggled. study guides don't help at all. pls go to CLAS!
Cannot teacher, you are going to be self learning the whole quater
The WORST teacher I have ever had. The man does not teach, only talks. He explains nothing and it feels like he's just reading off his course outline the whole time. We were supposed to get all the way to integrals but somehow went over limits every lecture. Homework and study guide have nothing to do with midterms/finals. TAs are useless.
He can explain advanced topics very thoroughly and well, but his fancy math-language doesn't lend itself to introductory calculus topics. Study guides and homework are typically harder than exams, and EC is offered. Office hours are very insightful for careers in math-adjacent fields, as the professor is extremely knowledgable. TAs vary widely.
I would avoid him unless you are extremely confident in your calculus abilities BEFORE enrolling. his lectures are confusing and all over the place, the homework is extremely difficult, and the study guides provided never match the 3 question midterms. the curve is big because the median score has been failing. go to CLAS if you take this course
I would avoid this man in whatever course you take. Even in the simplest course (3A), he still made it extremely harder than a calculus class needs to be. Overwhelming amount of material for very little time we have in a quarter. TA's in this course are just here to answer questions rather than to teach. Avoid this guy at all costs.
Where do I begin...Carlos Garcia Cevera. You are my sunshine and the light of my life. If u know how to long division, this class will be a piece of cake. His lectures really moved me in a way that I didn't think was possible. His tests are a piece of cake if you could call them that. Expect group tests and all his exams are open. Go, girl.
i can see he tried i guess. idk man, currently failing the class rn. i wouldnt take him again, he was the only option i had! the tests are really hard and the studyguides dont match the tests at all. do not take him the TAs suck as well trust bro
Lectures are awful he does not explain anything clearly and jumps around a lot. Doesn't answer questions. Tests do not match homework or what is learned in CLAS. TAs don't help much either. Take someone else if you can.
I would never take him again. He is awful. His homework and midterms do not match the lectures. Professor Garcia makes no sense. You cover limits about the whole time, when in calculus 1 in high school you cover limits for maybe 3 days. He is a terrible professor would not take again. TAKE A DIFFERENT PROFESSOR IF U WANT A GOOD GRADE!
Lectures are recordings with notes (both handwritten and more polished typed-up notes) available online, while class times are used to go through practice problems. I prefer this format to standard in-class lectures (though ymmv), and the in-class practice problems helped me develop my intuition for real analysis. Tests are take-home over 24 hours.
Horrible professor so learn from the textbook and go to CLAS. Really easy to do well in the class though because it is completely online, even the exams and final. If it is in person, avoid taking this professor.
Tough to understand him and his notes, Had about double the homework compared to other professors and they were very hard problems as well. If you have to take him, find another resource and take CLAS to survive this course.
online saved me and was the only reason i got an A. homework was really hard and his lectures were useless. he makes things way harder than it has to be. i didn't watch them and solely relied on self studying. get quizlet x slader. its the only reason i survived. loved cooper as my TA though, he was very helpful and nice overall
Class was asynchronous, and it was the worst mistake I've ever made. Taking this class made me feel like I was taking a graduate level class. Go to CLAS because it is literally the only help you can get. If possible, avoid taking his class, because you WILL regret it. I cannot stress how difficult the homework is and how he overall can't teach.
Lectures were async. Sometimes, the lectures were hard to follow, but in general, they were alright. There are a lot of recorded lectures coupled with a lot of webwork HW problems and a quiz each week. The professor was accomodating, delaying a midterm bc of a holiday. You might need to self study the material, if you find lectures unhelpful
Honestly just such a difficult professor, his lectures are long and hard to follow and he assigns a ton of homework which makes it hard to actually learn the course content, I recommend just teaching yourself on Khan Academy or avoiding at all cost
He is very hard to understand because of his accent, and his lectures are hard to follow. I stopped watching the lecture videos after week one but I did fine. I would not recommend taking his class, but everything including the tests and final was online so it is doable. Youre better off teaching yourself with the textbook.
UD students!! Garcia is the man for 118 series! You know the higher level math profs always get a bad rep w LD. Professor Garcia is the best math professor I've had at UCSB. He provides so many resources, and works so hard to ensure we have what we need to succeed. His lectures are illuminating, and the work is hard (118 is hard) but achievable.
His lectures made absolutely no sense. He would present the material but would not connect the dots to make any logical sense. It was difficult to understand.
Dont know what all the fuss is about, this guy worked reeeeally hard to make sure we understood the material.
Pros: Easy homework; easy exams; lots of extra credits; the textbook was free online and explains stuff well; attendance was not mandatory; Cons: Unnecessarily hard lectures; the professor had thick accents which might be hard to follow; be prepared to pay the ridiculous price for Wiley Plus.
Lectures are terrible, I haven't been to his lecture a second time since the second week. I understood he tried a lot to make lectures better, however ... hopefully he could make it better next quarter. The textbook is much more helpful, I read the book and took the homework, got an easy A+ with a 119.4 total score...