Professor
Jeffrey Lew
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Winter 2020 - PLEASE LISTEN!!! do NOT take this class. I was way to much work and Professor Lew does not help you at all. Plus the TA's are not helpful and don't know the material. The class is not organized and Lew is not understanding at all. Over this quarter I had surgery. I receive zero's on some assignments even though I had emailed him with the doctors note and CAE had spoken to him. By far the worst class I've ever taken. save your soul. Don't take it.
Winter 2020 - PLEASE LISTEN!!! do NOT take this class. I was way to much work and Professor Lew does not help you at all. Plus the TA's are not helpful and don't know the material. The class is not organized and Lew is not understanding at all. Over this quarter I had surgery. I receive zero's on some assignments even though I had emailed him with the doctors note and CAE had spoken to him. By far the worst class I've ever taken. save your soul. Don't take it.
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This is a great class to take if you need a science GE and are not a science major. I took this class at the same time as Intro to Oceanography, and in comparison with the Ocean class this class was a lot more reasonable in amount of reading and material we were expected to cover in the class. I would definately recommend this class over the Ocean class because Lew has painstakingly thorough notes online for every slide on his lecture notes, and he has open note open neighbor quizzes and it's just a reasonable workload which makes it fun as well as entertaining. However you will have to study to do well on the midterm and final it is not just an easy A, and Lew is very anal about spelling, grammar, and exact wording.
This is a great class to take if you need a science GE and are not a science major. I took this class at the same time as Intro to Oceanography, and in comparison with the Ocean class this class was a lot more reasonable in amount of reading and material we were expected to cover in the class. I would definately recommend this class over the Ocean class because Lew has painstakingly thorough notes online for every slide on his lecture notes, and he has open note open neighbor quizzes and it's just a reasonable workload which makes it fun as well as entertaining. However you will have to study to do well on the midterm and final it is not just an easy A, and Lew is very anal about spelling, grammar, and exact wording.
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This class is a good, solid GE. Lew is a great professor...although a bit crazy pants. I suggest taking this class with a friend because it will be pretty fun and will keep you awake for the most part. Quizzes are POP so, go to class and I remember this class being podcasted...so the inner war ensues of "to go or not to go"
This class is a good, solid GE. Lew is a great professor...although a bit crazy pants. I suggest taking this class with a friend because it will be pretty fun and will keep you awake for the most part. Quizzes are POP so, go to class and I remember this class being podcasted...so the inner war ensues of "to go or not to go"
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initial enrollment = ~85, final enrollment = 48. Hilarious isn't it? First time he taught an upper div and seemed to drive out like half the class. Harsh grading on the first midterm (i.e. lose major points for computational errors) probably had a lot to do with that. So he seemed cold at first, like other reviews have suggested. He actually ended up being pretty nice. He gave us what I thought was a pretty easy final, probably to help raise our grades (no curve in the class; he had a special scale) and reward those who decided to stick it out. My friend was actually a couple points short of an A (you needed 890 out of 1000 points total for the class). Lew ended up giving him the A anyways. Thus, at least from my perspective, he ended up being pretty nice, and not so cold as other people think. OK lecturer. Sorta acts like an oddball/nerdy, but that's alright.
initial enrollment = ~85, final enrollment = 48. Hilarious isn't it? First time he taught an upper div and seemed to drive out like half the class. Harsh grading on the first midterm (i.e. lose major points for computational errors) probably had a lot to do with that. So he seemed cold at first, like other reviews have suggested. He actually ended up being pretty nice. He gave us what I thought was a pretty easy final, probably to help raise our grades (no curve in the class; he had a special scale) and reward those who decided to stick it out. My friend was actually a couple points short of an A (you needed 890 out of 1000 points total for the class). Lew ended up giving him the A anyways. Thus, at least from my perspective, he ended up being pretty nice, and not so cold as other people think. OK lecturer. Sorta acts like an oddball/nerdy, but that's alright.
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