Professor
Shenshen Wang
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Spring 2023 - I expected the absolute worst from her, seeing all the terrible reviews she received in the past. This was my first class with her so I have no idea how she was back then, but I believe she upped her teaching game over time. I didn't experience any of the issues I saw in those reviews and I think she taught the course fairly well. She's not the most engaging lecturer to be frank, but I think a part of that is due to the subject itself, which I personally didn't find super interesting. As for the class itself: she followed the textbook very closely. The workload was manageable, with around 5 problems from the textbook assigned per week. Two midterms and a final. The midterm questions were similar to homework in terms of difficulty but I found the final rather challenging. The midterm you scored higher on was the one counted toward your final grade, which was nice. Overall, really not as bad as previous reviews make her out to be. Her teaching was good and the difficulty was not bad at all.
Spring 2023 - I expected the absolute worst from her, seeing all the terrible reviews she received in the past. This was my first class with her so I have no idea how she was back then, but I believe she upped her teaching game over time. I didn't experience any of the issues I saw in those reviews and I think she taught the course fairly well. She's not the most engaging lecturer to be frank, but I think a part of that is due to the subject itself, which I personally didn't find super interesting. As for the class itself: she followed the textbook very closely. The workload was manageable, with around 5 problems from the textbook assigned per week. Two midterms and a final. The midterm questions were similar to homework in terms of difficulty but I found the final rather challenging. The midterm you scored higher on was the one counted toward your final grade, which was nice. Overall, really not as bad as previous reviews make her out to be. Her teaching was good and the difficulty was not bad at all.
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Fall 2020 - Here's my advice for this class: don't take this class. Prof Wang could NOT care less about her students and I learned nothing from her. She reads her lecture notes to us by scrolling through a pdf of her scanned notes from years ago, which is just a harder to read version of the textbook. If you care about your education at all, don't do it, I don't even know what else to say because this quarter had me speechless. I'll summarize: -she's almost always late to class, record being 20 minutes or something -class just cuts out sometimes because of her internet issues, and she will tell you she's going to upload a recording for you to watch, but she won't -doesn't show up to her OH sometimes -cancelled class two(?) times for unknown reasons even though we ended up being so behind that she dropped the whole unit of tensor analysis -spent half a quarter on math 32 stuff which everyone already learned, rushed through Fourier/Laplace which is new, dropped everything else (tensors, PDEs, etc.) Basically all you have to do in this class is skim the textbook before exams and do the HW since most of the quarter is review. I can't think of a single reason why you would take this class with her unless this is the last class you need to graduate and you just want an easy A.
Fall 2020 - Here's my advice for this class: don't take this class. Prof Wang could NOT care less about her students and I learned nothing from her. She reads her lecture notes to us by scrolling through a pdf of her scanned notes from years ago, which is just a harder to read version of the textbook. If you care about your education at all, don't do it, I don't even know what else to say because this quarter had me speechless. I'll summarize: -she's almost always late to class, record being 20 minutes or something -class just cuts out sometimes because of her internet issues, and she will tell you she's going to upload a recording for you to watch, but she won't -doesn't show up to her OH sometimes -cancelled class two(?) times for unknown reasons even though we ended up being so behind that she dropped the whole unit of tensor analysis -spent half a quarter on math 32 stuff which everyone already learned, rushed through Fourier/Laplace which is new, dropped everything else (tensors, PDEs, etc.) Basically all you have to do in this class is skim the textbook before exams and do the HW since most of the quarter is review. I can't think of a single reason why you would take this class with her unless this is the last class you need to graduate and you just want an easy A.
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