Just not a good teacher. He barely explains anything during lecture, jumping into advanced concepts out of nowhere while writing from a paper he prepared beforehand, and his homeworks have nothing to do with lecture 90% of the time. You'd be better off skipping lecture and self studying.

i have to say that sung is not a good profession when teaching, but he is not a bad grader. He gives curves to ensure most people gets an A or B+, and almost all of the questions on exams were given in practice exams. If you do all the homework and take the exams seriously, A won't be hard.

don't do it

Literally just a textbook, honestly got confused by some of his own questions. Tests were fair and were similar to practice exams. Clearly loved doing physics in math.

This professor literally skipped the first chapter and went straight into advanced concepts on the first day. He's completely uninterested in teaching too. Everyone was lost during lectures, and my friends who continued to crash the class learnt everything by self studying and never attended lecture. Just don't take math if Sung is ur only choice.

He just writes and reads through the examples in the textbook during lectures. So it's like leading you to read the textbook during lecture times. The exams are pretty fair. They're similar to the practice ones; everything was covered during the class and homework. You will get an A if you know each question on the practice exam.

Overall a very poor teacher. Clearly not interested in teaching, which is fine but it spilled into him having little effort into his lectures. He very poorly communicated with the TA as well, leading to almost useless sections that added to more confusion on the content in the class. Homework was also incredibly difficult, and diverged from lecture

This guy doesn't know how to teach. Paul's Online Math Note is significantly more helpful and efficient.

i love physics so much after this class (please tell someone that he needs to actually care about the class i think i lost half my lifespan)

There has gotta be some kind of lecture workshop they can put new professors through so this doesn't happen. Class felt incredibly unorganized, even by UCSB standards. Sung seems like a nice guy but your true professor will be named Paul and his lectures are found on Paul's Online Math Notes. Good luck.

He has bad lectures where he mumbles and writes notes without explaining. Even when asked to explain, he answers questions the answers are vague and full of advanced math terms which makes it difficult to understand without knowing the topics. Also, the homework is often very difficult and requires much more work than examples found in lecture

Choose this prof when you want to fail the class.

can't stop teaching physics during math class

the class wasn't even that bad, he was just new. it was a lot of self-studying and finding your own resources, but the math department just sucks imo so nothing new. we were allowed a cheat sheet for the midterm and final, and he curved. the questions on the exams were sometimes similar to practice midterm. generous with points + slightly curved

Don't take his class. He froze during the lecture wondering about the question he just raised. Every lecture he just simply copies his note with AWFUL handwriting and jumps to the next topics so quickly that he doesn't care if the students understand. He is also awful at explaining almost everything. Better go to Coursera than taking his course.

Probably a good person and excelled at fitness.

Avoid this professor. Lectures are long and boring with no sense of composure, just poorly narrating as he scribbles on the board. I don't think he's even looked at the homework he assigns as half the problems are absurdly hard or completely irrelevant to the lecture. You are going to have to bust your ass watching youtube videos and online notes

Literally reading and re-write his confusing notes onto the board and giving little and confusing intuitives. Giving homework questions unrelated or untaught, literally learnt the course by learning homework questions and watch YouTube. Ridiculous final, questions not covering the course but too hard.

super confusing guidelines, i.e we were allowed a calculator for the midterm but suddenly weren't allowed a calculator for the final. that would be fine if he had emailed about it beforehand but he never said anything about it even during the exam, only saying so in tiny font on the first page of his exam. hws were difficult and lectures didnt help

Personally didn't learn anything at lectures, he just wrote down his kinda confusing notes and narrated what he was writing. He did curve the class a bit, and tests are similar to practice tests. 30% final, 30% midterm, 30% webwork, 10% section attendance. Honestly, just find out the topics he will teach for the week, and watch YouTube videos.