Can't teach at all. Some TA's are lifesaving, but not all. Old midterms and final were helpful, but questions are changed to very different subjects for no apparent reason. If you can teach quantum mechanics to yourself, you are golden. If not, get a different professor

Horrible teacher, of the worst I would think are at UCLA. At some points of the lecture, I thought he was so stupid and couldn't put a lecture together and would find one powerpoint slide to ramble in. The class would be doable with a different professor. His tests are nothing like the homework he says will help you do well. Take a different professor.

More for the experience than the learning. This was probably the most informative class I took but I had a hard time grasping it, at first, maybe due to Baugh. Basically, it's a class that explains classical chemistry, ie why Lewis dots work and that kind of stuff. More physics based than chemistry but no APs will help you. Baugh will show powerpoints of images from the book and will try to explain them, but it's best to just read the book and then if you have questions to ask him in office hours. Tell a lot of "jokes" in class though it'll be much funnier to laugh at the person who laughs at his jokes. Grab his past tests to help you out because he does reuse, sometimes exactly. Midterms are considerably hard, with the averages around 55%. Final was just about as hard, but because there is a large curve, my grade ended up a B+ :)

Nice guy. HORRIBLE lecturer. That pretty much sums it up for you.

I came into 20A without any previous chemistry knowledge (my chemistry class in high school was very remedial; for example, I didn't even really learn to how to draw Lewis dot diagrams). My major recommended the 14A series, but that had filled up by my orientation session and so I, in a spur of the moment decision that I will forever regret, decided to just sign up for 20A rather than wait a quarter to take 14A.

The subject sounds simple. How difficult can chemical structure be, right? WRONG. We are talking extremely in-depth quantum mechanical concepts here. I had an absolutely awful TA, so discussions were basically useless. By the end of the quarter, I was just about dying, so I went to discussions of other TA's. Unfortunately, it was too late for me; I was already way too behind in the content to really grasp it. I was doomed. Basically, discussions will determine whether you pass or fail. You will gain nothing - and I am not exaggerating here when I say nothing - from his lectures. You need to READ THE BOOK to even remotely get what he's touching on. His midterms and final are curved generously, but they are EXTREMELY EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. You can't just know the concepts; you need to UNDERSTAND them on a deeper, more extreme level. He will make you apply concepts in ways that he never even talked about, just to test whether or not you really get it. The average grades for both midterms was about 50%, for the final, it was 174/400.

He makes analogies that don't make sense, attempts to crack jokes that aren't relevant nor are they clever (but at the same time, you got to give the guy credit for trying), and doesn't seem to care much about your grades. He is at UCLA strictly for the research. However, he's a really nice guy if you go to his office hours (which aren't much better than lectures, but more clear nonetheless). Bottom line: if your TA sucks, GET OUT NOW. If you can't, then go to a different TA's discussions while going to your own discussion. You won't regret it. Read the book. If you don't get something, ask the TA. I worked my butt off and ended up with a C- in the class. That being said, the class is not impossible as long as you approach it with the right mindset.

Baugh is a really nice guy and it's tough to speak harshly about him, but he really is not a very good teacher at all. Every lecture seemed to make you more confused instead of clarifying concepts from the book. The TAs would always complain that he never had any communication with them, and they often had no idea what to talk about in discussion. The midterms and final were absolutely brutal, with the average scores hovering around a 50% or lower for all three. His curves are generous, if you are just in it for the grade, but take another professor if you are at all interested in actual teaching. A class with Baugh is definitely doable and won't destroy your GPA, but just be prepared to teach yourself.

Avoid this professor at all costs. As the other recent reviewers stated, he does not teach chemistry at all like that taught in high school, instead he teaches quantum mechanics. His lectures were terribly useless; basically his lectures consisted of talking about the textbook's pictures and graphs. The words that were present on his slides basically were a bunch of chemistry jargon that you had to strain yourself to make sense of. Unsurprisingly, a number of people walked out every day in that class and average class attendance was around 75-80%.

I gained very little information from attending his lectures. Even though it's tempting not to, make sure you read every chapter that he covers in the class and do every homework. That's your only chance of getting a reasonable grade.

If you walk into this class thinking that your knowledge from AP Chemistry will serve as a cushion, you are most definitely wrong. In fact, I felt that you need more prior knowledge in Physics than in Chemistry to succeed in this class. For those of you who were in AP Physics, you may have a better understand of this "quantum" idea that you basically learn throughout the 10 weeks. Overall, it was a difficult class due to the in-dept material that Baugh teaches in his slides that sometimes even go beyond the knowledge of the book. If you want to do well, memorize both his slides AND the book, go to all the review sessions with the TAs, and pay super-close attention in discussion. It may be the only way to succeed in his class.. not to mention, his midterms and final is very difficult. Studying for hours is not going to help if you cannot apply what you learned in his class. Understand the concepts. Don't just memorize.

His lectures are too difficult for students to understand. Although he is a nice guy, he is not an effective lecturer. The only way to learn in his class is to find a good TA.

This man made me want to rip out my fingernails.

Super nice and funny guy, but can't teach. He talks about the material as if we already know what he's talking about, when we don't, and if you ask him to simplify and claify, he has this magical way of making you feel really awkward and stupid. If you don't go to all the office hours, he'll teach stuff there that's neither in the book nor in the main lecture, but is on the test. Avoid if possible, unless you already know Quantum Mechanics (AP Chem won't help!).