<p>So I was looking at the class schedule for these classes and for Chem 6A, Hoeger, Crowell, and Czworkowski are listed and for Math 10A, Stevens and Staff are listed.</p>
<p>Which professor would you recommend among the list for Chem 6A and Math 10A?</p>
<p>I know that for Math 10A, Staff could be anyone but if you could recommend other Math 10A professors that would be great!</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I heard Hoeger is the most difficult but the most rewarding to take. He will give you a strong foundation to the subject. </p>
<p>Stevens is supposed to be great at teaching and also a rewarding instructor to take. The staff are usually new PhD students, assistant professors or something like that who are teaching for the first time (at UCSD at least) so I would not be able to recommend them. I do think given the option of Stevens you might as well enroll in her class</p>
<p>crowell is an interesting prof… his lectures are boring and he covers material in depth and detail that usually is very hard to understand… i think he went into extreme detail on Schrodinger and that just confused the heck outta me, his tests are usually difficult and go beyond the expectations as shown in a practice exam (ie. the questions in a final practice exam are much easier, and more simpler than the questions in a final exam)… he requires the use of iClickers show attendance to lectures are mandatory (ugh…)</p>
<p>These aren’t necessarily negative things, but they kinda “unify” to pose as a challenge, and if you like challenges, i would definitely recommend him. If you want the easy way out, it’s a toss up. I took Crowell and i passed with a B (B+ i think, not sure) (first year, first quarter, and still in HS senior mood of procrastinating)</p>
<p>I TAed for Crowell several times. His lectures are heavy on the theory and background, but his exams are nothing but simple applications of concepts. The questions are really predictable – they resemble the homework and practice problems 100%. Plus he gives you practice exams that are nearly identical to the real thing. I never saw a significant change in difficulty between the midterms and final; I did better on the final than on one of the exams. And the i-clickers aren’t such a big deal. Just get a friend to take yours along. It’s not right, but in a lecture hall of 400 people it’s going to be impossible to spot.</p>
<p>tl;dr - After spending 5 years in the chem department, if I saw Crowell on a list of possible professors, I’d sign up for his class without hesitation. Hoeger would be #2.</p>
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<p>I agree with this! Hoeger was one of my favorite professors.</p>
<p>Prof. Hoeger is a tough professor, but you will learn a lot from him. He is the second best gen. chem prof at UCSD.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot everyone on the info! I’ll consider when choosing my professors :)</p>
<p>You didn’t mention anything about Czworkowski for Chem 6A…Hoeger was full and his class was the best fit in my schedule. I have to take the whole chem series will he teach enough so that I will make it in 6B? Thanks!</p>
<p>Even with the worst professor, you can still learn plenty from the textbook to make it through to the next level.</p>