<p>This topic is pretty straight forward, but I think I should set some guidelines.
- Don't just nominate a class because it was required it for your major and you didn't like it (i.e. lay off Bio 1A-B, Chem 3A-B, Math 1A-B/53/54 etc...)
- List the professor(s), it is obvious that some classes are different with different professors
- Don't just list a class because it was hard and/or boring, there has to be some fundamental flaw</p>
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<li>Stat 134 with Peter L. Ralph. Luckily this guy is gone (he is a post-doc at UC Davis now). On top of this course being a very difficult class that I signed up for by mistake, this course was hellishly disorganized and this professor did not know how to teach</li>
<li>EPS 50 with Chi Wang. While the material for this course was interesting, the labs never corresponded with the lecture, the tests were based on random facts from book (facts that weren't even emphasized), the slides were basically all just ripped from the textbook and the lectures were hellishly bland (over half the class (myself included) fell asleep each lecture).
3-5 (I can't think of any classes worth nominating)</li>
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<p>Environmental Design 1 with DeMonchaux - In my opinion, a terrible introduction class… The prof seemed smart enough at first, but I couldn’t help feeling like he was just pulling stuff out of his butt for every lecture. Weekly projects were also wayyy too time consuming, and it definitely wasn’t worth 3 units.</p>
<p>i actually really have no problems with any of the classes i’ve taken at Cal so far, except for a College Writing Class that was taught by Stephanie Bobo. i did well but none of us learned anything. we literally did nothing but shoot the **** in her class every day, it was sort of funny.</p>
<p>Environmental Science 10 w/ Inez Fung. Class was boring because it was hella lectures on cycles and clouds like *** it made me hate the environment and the midterms, which averaged Cs, were not curved so I had to work for an A.</p>
<p>there is no one to help you for the class and the fail rate is around 20%</p>
<p>even at the cs self-paced tutors, there is either a shortage of tutors or they are sort of arrogant about you not grasping cs imediately even if you’re not really a CS major.</p>
<p>EPS 80 with Berry. Class is too large and unorganized. There is no flow in lectures or from lecture to lecture. Tests are lazily written. Easy to pass if taking P/NP but don’t waste your time taking this 2-unit course for a letter grade.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to the idiot who mentioned SOC 3AC. This was one of the best lower div classes I took at cal. Powers is an awesome professor, super helpful in office hours, and really cares about his students and what they do after college.</p>
<p>ES125 with Prof Berry: totally disorganized syllabus (why he even bothered?), he says the same things 10000 times, I didn’t learn a single new thing from him or the guest lecturers, class consists of a good chunk of student presentations (the last 1/3 of the semester) which all covered basically the same exact topics as the guest lecturers. The midterm was a joke, but graded extremely hard - thank goodness for a curve! Totally boring, waste of time, no one paid attention if they showed up.</p>
<p>1-3 are -utter- hate worst classes. 4-5 are I was disappointed in what I got worst classes.</p>
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<li><p>Comp Lit R1B w/ Amy Moore - 4 Units: She was awful, arbitrary, and I doubt she even read my or any other student’s papers. I would get a grade with no feedback, or if you did, it was not about anything inherently wrong – she just did not agree with what you wrote. She also did not seem to read the material she assigned. Generally out-of-touch. Also, the course had little to do with what was in the syllabus or the course description.</p></li>
<li><p>Math 16B w/ Silver - 3 Units: He was just plain bad, would get bored in the middle of a problem and say: “Well, this is so simple minded we don’t need to go any further with this problem.” Half the class was stumped and confused a lot of the time.</p></li>
<li><p>Computer CS3S - cannot remember who taught - I can agree with what earlier poster said. It’s supposed to be self-paced, but the fact if you get 1 thing wrong, you fail the entire quiz and cannot take it for another day? Plus as I recall, the text was just awful and only used because the presiding prof’s name was mentioned in the acknowledgements as far as I could tell. Scheme is also a terrible, obtuse, useless programming language imho.</p></li>
<li><p>AS144B (American Cultural Landscapes, after 1800) - does not instruct there anymore - they said you did not need the 144A class to do well. I was confused as hell for much of it simply because they referred to so much to 144A. Not a bad class, but please don’t advertise the previous half as unnecessary if you need to take it to understand what is going on. I played catchup for much of the semester following the midterm. Standards were not overly clear either. Still did decent though and learned a lot, just… come on.</p></li>
<li><p>Econ 1 - Train - when I realized I was -not- going to be a business major. Just went completely over my head at that point in my life. Was lucky to get a B. Otherwise, was a good class. I was not emotionally, mentally, or maturity-wise ready for it I guess. </p></li>
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<p>EPS 80 w/ Andrews. did not learn **** from that class. felt like middle school all over again and there I was thinking that I was pass that part of my life drawing posters for a letter grade.</p>