Reviews of professor Joseph Fournier

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really great lecturer and kind person. Quantum mechanics is a difficult topic but Fournier makes it digestible and highly enjoyable.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
What I come away with from 112 is that Fournier got the job done He wasn't especially charismatic about it and sometimes he needed to go into greater detail, but with work outside of class you can get everything down. I didn't find his office hours to be great because he'd just answer questions curtly and not explain the why or the how of the topic

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Fournier is nice, and I want to like him, but it was a frustrating semester. He really does not explain things well. If you struggle understanding the meaning of mathematical equations and constructs, you will struggle in 401. He is not able to give intuition into the math and the consequences of it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Understand it is Quantum Chem, there will be math. Kinda fun to learn the math for the content presented in Chem 111. Fournier is very organized caring. His lectures are a bit fast, but he reviews content at the beginning of every lecture. You have to do the homework (it is also graded) because some of the content is presented through questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hard class but great professor who explains things very well, and if not, he is very accessible outside class. He loves using excel for homework a bit too much though... It is math heavy, but everything you need to know should be covered in lecture (I've only taken Calc 3).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is a tough class, especially if you haven't seen the mathematics in a while (or ever). Joe does a good job lecturing and is pretty much always available to help you get through the homework sets which are typically very tough

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
nice guy, lectures easy to follow and make note taking effortless. class was easier than 111 but still much more difficult than ap chem imo. but if you do the non graded you will be fine

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures while some find a little boring are well structured and presented for the most part very clearly. The exams are difficult but not impossible and the grading is pretty fair. This course is challenging but doable and worthwhile

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I genuinely enjoyed attending every lecture -- he is never stale and he GENUINELY cares about you! Beware: HW Sets are very challenging and long, Exams are not easy by any stretch of the imagination, and the class made me do more math than some actual math courses. Will you learn a lot though? Yes. It's a good class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Awesome professor - super available outside of class and really willing to help. Very organized and homeworks are super relevant to class. However exams are very difficult so be prepared to have to really know whats going on