Hours of lectures and reading every week. "Required" textbook hardly used. Autograded proctored exams are the only graded coursework at all, with no notes or open book allowed. Quizzes are full of "gotchas"- ambiguous or trick questions with multiple choice answers designed to punish incomplete memorization and recall.

Professors are frequently mostly absent in online courses unless you actively seek them out.

Don't take it.

Information was interesting, but it was presented horribly and the assignments were marked so rough and took so long to complete that it wasn't enjoyable.

The information was not explained on slides properly, some were obviously made with AI, and the labs had basically nothing to do with the material. I don't think I learned anything in this class. The lab reports had necessarily strict page limits that forced you to cut information to fit it in, and it was impossible to get a good grade on them because of how little information on marking they gave.

The prof was super dismissive of students, ignoring raised hands of specific individuals, and did not provide useful answers when you asked her questions. The questions she put on tests did not reflect most of the material and focused on things she said wouldn't be tested or were said once in passing and never mentioned again. She refused to post lecture recordings until a week after they happened, and kept introducing topics in lecture, saying "we would get to it later" and then never explaining it.

Avoid this professor if you can. This class is marked hard but its do-able; the professor just made it much worse to understand/study the material.

Waste of time. We could learn more about actual chemistry if we didn't spend so much time writing about everything we do in lab (which is graded strictly btw). The projects and experiments are not overly complicated, but hardly even apply chemistry, mostly just math.

4 projects, group-based. You learn some good chemistry techniques such as vacuum filtration, titration, and spectroscopy. However, more time is spent writing than actually doing experiments. We spend >2 hours of each lab just writing in nauseating detail about our experimental set-up, observations, and project design, some of which is necessary, but not worth submitting 15 pages of writing every week. We even have to write out what we plan on putting on powerpoint slides.

Professor wasn't really involved. TA's ran the labs and were very unhelpful and rude at times. They often told people conflicting information.

Be prepared for your hand to be sore from writing. The redundancy is agonizing. Also they grade on how neat your handwriting is. You only have 7 days after the experiment to finish the project (presentation or report) so get it done quickly. This class will test your patience because they run it so inefficiently and the structure caters towards 18 year olds who don't have structure or work ethic. Not hard to 4.0 but a total waste of 1 credit.

this course is more useful for AI to use as training material.

to sum it up, learning how to be a regular human, with complicated terminology to make it confusing and difficult for examination purposes.

cool professor

don't take it, waste of time