Strange class. Your labs depend on how harsh of a grader your TA is (they’re usually chill), but the lecture component of class is basically just midterm and final. Professor Henary is a very sweet guy but difficult to understand at times. His PowerPoints aren’t very easy to understand on their own so definitely go to lecture or watch the recording. He goes over examples that will likely be on the exams so he’s a G for that. However, the exams were still challenging.

Chem 14CL is a class nobody takes willingly, much less with Henary. While he is very knowledgeable on the subject, he is also very unorganized. The post and prelab guidelines often have missing information and the wrong instructions. Any practice problems he gives also have typos or the wrong answer. I don't know if he means to come off this way, but he is often rude and abrasive to students asking questions. The material itself is not hard, just tedious and lots of busy work. Prelabs are due twice a week and postlabs due once a week. There was one midterm and final. There were also no lecture recordings for this quarter. Not sure why he is still teaching this class given student's horrible ratings. Take it with someone else if you can. Unless you already know the material and it's fresh in your mind from a previous class, be prepared to re-teach yourself things as he is of no help. My TAS was the only saving grace

Had no choice but to take henary. Im not sure how he's been able to remain a professor so long seeing as he is clearly not the best at his job

Be mindful of the grading on tests in this class. TAs don't even understand their own grading and Henary acts extremely impatient when asked to look at a test again. Even when he/his team made a mistake on a student's test, he does not admit and tries to brush it off. Had to visit his OH/office 5+ times and tolerate his attitude to finally get back the points that justifiably should not be taken off in the first place.

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Henary was incredibly unclear, not only about what he wanted from us as students but also how the class was organized. He does have a thick accent, but aside from that, he did not give very good explanations of his slides, instead just basically read off formulas. He is a super nice professor and always visited lab, and I'm sure he would help any students who came to him with problems, but I just found his class incredibly confusing and frustrating.

I stopped going to lectures after going once because of his thick accent but I still ended with an A so it's definitely doable. This class is basically 14b+14c material (titration and mixed spec heavy) so if that material is fresh in your mind this class will be easy. The annoying part of lab is how unreliable post-lab instructions are. You WILL get docked off points if you blindly follow the instructions. It turns out that the prof actually goes over specific points he wants in your post-labs which is dumb.

I liked 30AL, looking back I think a lot of the labs covered experiments that were interesting and useful to know (separation/extraction, purification, TLC, ion-column, a bit of analyzing spec). Taking this class with/after 30B is helpful for the units on mass spec, IR, and NMR, which had a couple of dry-labs dedicated to those concepts. Like all lab classes, your experience depends highly on your TA.

The lab reports are more frequent than 20L, but seem to be a bit shorter in length, which is nice. The independent experiments aren't too bad, but I was definitely pressed for time on one or two of them. Soil lab was very doable, but it does help if you know someone who took the class before.

I found the midterm/final to be a little difficult/tricky, despite the midterm being open-notes and the final getting a cheat sheet. However, the class is pretty doable, interesting, and it's not too hard to get an A.

I took Chem 14CL with Henary.

You probably won't have much of a choice when it comes to lab professor, but I can at least tell you what to expect.

First, Lab TAs are still as important as ever in this class. He says he "normalizes" the section grades due to different grading styles, but from what I've seen, this is a pretty shotty correction. Good luck with your TA, because lab scores are a very large part of the grade.

Second, lectures are... skippable. Honestly, as long as you get the lecture slides, you're in pretty good shape. 8AM class meant I'd probably spend it sleeping, but on the rare morning when I was awake enough to listen, I was too baffled by the man's accent. It gets easier to understand over time, of course, but I found it pretty frustrating. He tries to teach the lab concepts, but I never found him very effective. He's not a bad lecturer, but it was all just pretty ordinary and at a slightly fast pace. I think I attended two lectures.

Tests are on the harder side, yet manageable. The midterm gives you only 50 minutes. If you were given any less time, you'd have a lot of trouble finishing it. Work hard and work fast, and check if you have time. You need to practice the long problems like titrations so they can be completed quickly and efficiently. Many students did not finish the entire midterm.
The final was easier because of the extra third hour. However, the test was still exceedingly long and I saw only one student turn the test in before time was up.

Overall, I didn't mind Henary. My only problem came from when I found an error on his final, but rather than trying to resolve the issue, he told me that even though the problem was flawed, I should have just followed instructions and not questioned it. That's a real thought-stifling attitude that I don't agree with. Regardless, I still got an A in the class. Best wishes.

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