He explains things very clearly and at a good pace. Many ppl struggled on exams saying that they weren't exactly like the book work, but if you have a good understanding of those concepts you'll be fine because he just stitches two ideas into the same problem. Drops your lowest exam, lots of partial credit, and your grade is curved.
Cool teacher. Took online/summer for 6 weeks, which made it so much harder! But he let us retake exams & offered lots of extra credit. One week students werent ready for the 3rd midterm so he gave more days to prepare. This isn't his fault but remote learning made it so much harder to grasp the material. Even so I felt like he was there for us.
I would definitely recommend him! Hard class but he and the TA made it very accommodating & worthwhile. Lecture videos were very well organized. He really cares about the students learning the material and that was proved several times throughout the course. Saw my performance improve significantly by doing book problems and going to office hours!
I love Professor Joseph. He makes me laugh in class with his comments, and he's a really good teacher. I personally think Joseph is equal or better than Price. He covers everything is great detail, is very clear in his lectures, answers questions well, and really cares about your success in the class. BOOK PROBLEMS ARE A MUST THO.
Good Professor. Difficult Subject material. His final was really hard, midterms weren't too bad. Grind textbook problems.
Joseph is a great lecturer, but you will not do well if you solely depend on attending his lectures. Be sure to read the textbook (take additional notes, it helped me tremendously), ALL the book problems, and the practice tests he posts. Exams are hard and a time crunch. Very helpful during office hours and cares about his students.
Quizzes & exams MUCH harder than practice ones. Good lecturer, on par with Price; however, in order to cover all the material he goes pretty fast, so you gotta be alert/not fall asleep. It helps your grade tremendously just to go to lecture & keep up with ALEKs. Sign up for CLAS-- if you don't like your tutor, switch ASAP & use Drop-In hours!
Joseph is an engaging lecturer. His classes are organized and well thought out and he spells out what you need to do to be successful in his class from day one. He expects a lot, but I think that it prepares you for future upper-divs that ask more from students. If you put the time and effort in you will learn a lot!
easiest professor for chem 1a. I dont think I wouldve passed if I had taken another professor. I literally did the barest of barest minimum and still passed. maybe it helped that I remembered stuff from highschool chem. office hours are very helpful, just attend them.
A very nice professor! Once I wrote my parscore wrong, he helped me find back without losing points. Good at explaining things, and preparing for lectures
No matter how much you study (even if you do every single textbook problem, Aleks, CLAS, and practice quizzes) you will not be prepared for the exams or quizzes. They are EXTREMELY tricky and not a good representation of the stuff he posts online. He changes questions from lectures and text book problems to make sure youve never seen it before.
Overall very nice professor. However, his quizzes and exams are way harder than other professor's exams. He now is teaching chem 1b and put both his Price's previous quiz questions. I can do almost all right with Professor Price's exam, but only half correct with his questions!!! All I can say is that the exams are very very hard.
I came into this course having only took IB chem sophomore yr of high school. I had trouble keeping up during lectures because he went pretty fast. Lots of topics are glossed over in lecture so reading is mandatory especially in the later chapters (12/13). Exams are concept based, don't rely on practice midterms.
Came in with very little chem experience. No AP Chem and this class crushed me. Quarter system already going 100 miles per hour and he would just skip over things easily because of time. Worked really hard, hours on top of hours. Do not even like chem it even a little bit and wanted to pass for my major but nope got a D- so I switched. Good luck!
Really tough teacher, pretty unforgiving of absences, but lecture is very helpful and clear. DO THE BOOK PROBLEMS. He reuses test questions so be very sure you understand every midterm question for the final. He also uses book problems on the tests so make sure you understand ALL of them. This class isn't impossible but it is very hard.
He is a great lecturer and is very clear about what he expects from his students. The course had a heavy workload but I felt adequately prepared for his quizzes and tests. He speaks loud and clear and is an all-around good choice for your first quarter of chem.
Professor Joseph is pretty great! Every time I retake chemistry with him I get a significantly higher grade, even after having failed the class hard the previous quarter with another professor. His lecture style is my favorite of the three other chem professors I had (Price and Kunkel). So glad to have had him twice.
He is a nice teacher! The class is easy. Test and quiz are not hard. The only thing I dislike is the Online homework
He gives really informative lectures, and his tests are more conceptual rather than problem based. He's really accessible outside of class too! I was in his office at least once a week for Chem 1C. He takes the time to help his students and has opened up extra office hours to give everyone the opportunity to ask questions.
I had Joseph for chem 1A and 1B. Overall hes a really great professor! Hes very good at explaining how to get a good grade in the class, and as long as you stay diligent youre gold. Attend all lectures and make sure that you can do the book problems on your own! Aleks is good too, but its not so helpful when it comes to exam prep.
Joseph's tests are incredibly conceptual and have almost no calculation based questions. This sounds good at first but it can be very tricky so beware. Lectures were absolutely useless. He barely works any problems on the board so be ready to figure it out yourself. He also over-complicates everything. I got a higher grade in 1B which is "harder"
Dr. Joseph was awesome on explaining chem stuffs, but the homework on Aleks was a lot&boring. If u did SAT chem/AP chem this class would be fairly easy. Practice problems on textbook & previous exams with work-out help a lot so do these. Lectures worth attending if u are not sure about anything, as he's super helpful & amazing!
Homework, lectures, exams are different things. Lecture is interesting but homework is not helpful for exams. Exams are not easy.
I think joseph is a pretty good professor. he goes faster than price, but his office hours are really helpful. if you want to do well in the class than make sure you go to all office hours and read all his slides. this quarter there was a pretty big curve (82% for an A-) because the final was really hard.