Reviews of professor Cameron Crane

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
horrible teaching skills. hes helpful in discussion but he cant teach lecture at all. he writes unbelievably small, talks to the board and not the students, throws up random equations and numbers on the board, and barely explains anything.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Crane is very clear during his lectures and answers any questions you have on the material. His grading criteria is clearly stated in the rubric and if you pay attention in class, the lab portion of general chem should be pretty easy. I do think the workload is a bit too much but it isnt unbearable.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Crane was nice during his prelab lectures, was able to answer everyone's questions and if not he would email back. Labs were a lot of work though, especially the lab reports. Office hours were the only thing that made sense during chemistry as a whole.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Crane is absolutely wonderful at his job. He is passionate and eloquent about physical chemistry, and cares about making sure students understand by being readily available outside of class. I'm surprised by CH109 comments, which I would attribute to students being frustrated as he doesn't give the answer, but makes sure you truly understand.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He explains well during prelab lectures. However, he expects so much from us. There's so much work and the labs are all graded very harshly. I feel like I'm even more lost because we can't have lab partners (b/c of covid). As someone who didn't do that many labs in high school, this course expected too much from us, in my opinion.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cameron is such a great and caring TF! He is very knowledgeable about all the subjects and instruments we used in the lab, and he was better at explaining concepts than the professor. He was very patient and helpful, and made himself available outside of class to answer questions and was always quick about answering emails. He made me enjoy class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The way Crane grades labs shocks me. There isn't a defined criteria so when we write labs we cannot expect anything good to come out from it. The lab manual is abnormally large and boring. Everything is so unclear and useless. But he answers questions nicely, and his handwriting is so hard to read cuz its tinier than my one brain cell.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had Crane as my CH112 lab professorreally nice guy and pretty easygoing. The pre-lab lectures were pretty boring. As long as you prepare for each lab properly (as in doing your notebook pages), you'll be done with the labs pretty quicklybut there is a lot of pre-lab and post-lab work on top of the reports.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cameron is genuinely the best teacher I have had at BU. He's friendly without being too buddy-buddy and puts his best effort into helping you understand difficult material. He knows what we have learned in the classes before this and integrates it into what is expected of us in this course. I am not a pchem fan - but this course was phenomenal.