Reviews of professor Walter Seaman

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Spring 2023, This guy just copied and pasted questions and answers exactly from the review. I dont know anything about the class that in depth cause I just copy and pasted the review on my notecards. The two lectures I went to he was really hard to follow. Id probably would give him a 1 if he didn't copy&paste stuff from the review. Or a 2 idrk.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I would rather empty the ocean with a teacup than take Walter again. Lectures are useless, and I have never learned so little in a semester -- and I actually went to every lecture. Try to decipher the textbook to learn & use the review/old exams for your midterms. If you get stuck with him, you'll be fine as long as you put in the work.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Fantastic professor. Be sure to attend lecture as he has clicker questions as pop-quizzes every once in awhile. Lot of time spent on homework but homework is worth as much as two of the four midterms. Makes occasional jokes in class and has a good sense of humor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He makes the homework very difficult, but to balance that out the tests are very easy. He tells you exactly what will be on them, and doesn't make test problems super hard with complex algebra/trig. His hand writing is illegible so you do need to write fast before you forget what he says. I think people rate him low because they are bad at math.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Seaman is very intelligent. I found his class challenging, but he makes it possible to pass with relative ease. He provides you with all you need, but his lectures are problematic. He spends a lot of time explaining theory that is difficult to understand even with understanding the material that it applies to. He needs to show examples.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The only reason I did will in the class was SI. Walter's lectures were useless and it was cruel to make clicker questions to force us to attend. SI was a very good resource and I definitely recommend taking advantage of it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mathematica is used for the twice a week homework and twice a week group work. Tests are out of 10 and multiple choice so if you do everything right up till the very end and switch a sign you still get 0 cause work isnt worth points. Lectures are insanely boring and he is the only professor that teaches this Required course

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Just try your best and complete the homework you should be fine. All of our tests were modeled off of the old exams he releases so If you study those you should be fine. I never really learned anything from lecture it was mostly through my discussion group and through office hours.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Rambles complete nonsense during lecture, but I'd still go because he gives clicker questions for credit, and he cracks jokes that are honestly extremely hard not to laugh at. I'd like to have a drink with this guy. The exam questions are all from old exams and the back of the book problems which makes exams easy. Go to the math lab for help on hw!