Avoid taking this course at all costs. The professor's teaching style is extremely unorganized, with no syllabus or clear expectations. Rely on study tools like unstuck ai, ChatGPT, and open courses to make up for the lack of in-class support.
No syllabus No ppt No answer to homework VERY unorganized lecture just reading textbook Avoid him
No syallbus provided
No syllabus provided for the course; not even sure if that's legal. Throughout the entire quarter, there hasn't been a single instance of the professor presenting a rigorous proof. No solutions to weekly homework sets. No midterm, so no idea on what to expect on the final that's worth 50%. Overall the most unorganized course I've taken all my life.
THE WORST professor... If you are desperate enough to take his course due to course schedule like me, be prepared to spend a huge ton of extra time in Math Lab, TA office hour, and open courses by other universities, because his instructional approach falls SIGNIFICANTLY short.
This class is near impossible. There is no syllabus provided, little to no examples in class, and the homework answers are never gone over. The final is also worth 50%
Prof. Akemann seems like a good person, but as a professor his class is impossible. He gives hours of homework without ever going over examples in class, he doesn't lecture he just reads the textbook, and he expects you to understand complex proofs you've never seen before. It's better to avoid him at all costs and take the class with anyone else
Akemann doesn't seem like a bad guy, but he makes major assumptions about what his students have learned beforehand. He teaches the course like it's review rather than new content. Coming from an area with some of the worst education in the country, it's safe to say I came in knowing nothing and came out also knowing nothing.
Extremely uninteresting, unclear, and slow lectures.
Believe me, this professor is a nightmare and if you choose him, the best way is to purchase the textbook and read it yourself. This person is not ready to answer questions, class is very disorganized, sometimes he just read the textbook while writing some thing in the book on the board! Besides all of these, he is just a bad person in general.
Not a bad professor when we has teaching, but would often go off topic on random tangents about halfway through class. I honestly only passed because of my TA who went over homework in great detail. Definitely need to have prior knowledge of calc
HW can be hard and excessive, but he's happy to help in office hours. Tests are similar to hw questions so between office hours, section, and CLAS finishing them isn't too hard. You get a note card to help you on tests which are also curved. He is always willing to help if you ask. Many who didn't do great didn't put in much effort or skipped class
Super easy A if youre good at math AND problem solving. I never went to lecture (probably 10 times total for 34A/B), they were pointless and boring. Lee Deanda is the best CLAS tutor and knows Chuck like the back of his hand. Hw/tests weigh the same I think, but you wont get a lower grade in class than you score on the final.
avoid getting him for math 34a if you can. I did not attend lectures because it was so confusing for me. I went to CLAS, section, and office hours, but I still struggled. He assigns so much homework that you would be struggling to finish. His homework did help my grade a lot so try to finish it.
He doesn't always have the clearest explanations in lecture, but he offers way more office hours, extra credit, and overall extra help than any other professor I've had. He's such a nice person and is really understanding of your circumstances if you communicate with him.
It's true that this man has no business teaching this class. You basically have to teach yourself all of the material, which isn't nearly as hard as 34A's. HOWEVER he gives many opportunities to earn an A in this class, as there is major extra credit possible in the HW, as well as the fact that you get a doublesided notecard for the exam.
The only way to pass this class is to have prior knowledge. He expects you to know the information and his lectures are very long due to him repeating himself over and over. The first five weeks of homework are extremely long and we had three midterms and a final. He is also a bad communicator, I emailed him many times and he never once responded.
Worst experience I've had for a math class. Expects you to know the material before its taught. Assumes you are a math prodigy, his methods of teaching were not helpful for me nor my friends who also took the class.
Easily the WORST teacher ive ever had in my ENTIRE academic career. Avoid Chuck.
In an 8050 person lecture, by week 2 about 50 people were still showing up.
this man is a disgrace to public education
the best thing to be said for chuck was that attendance wasnt mandatory
This is the worst professor that I have ever taken. I couldn't help but think about the money wasted on a course in which I learned next to nothing from the lecture. I don't know how anyone that hasn't taken calc before or that doesn't attend CLAS could possibly excel in this course. Sign up for CLAS and you can pull off an A fairly easily.
this is supposed to be the easiest math class at the school, yet somehow this professor makes it awful. if you have to take it with him go to CLAS. the grade basically is split between tests & hw so pick your poison. if you're confident on the material then doing ALL the hw is irrelevant. if u dont understand it then do as much of the hw as u can