Reviews of professor Erik Lascaris

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing prof! Clear, funny, and lots of explanation and help in office hours. Attendance is graded (5%), and tests are exactly as expected. No quizzes at all! He gives worked out solutions to Practice Tests. Do not take if you struggle with Algebra; he does not work through calculations in lecture. Homework is very hard but he drops the lowest one.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Ignored, disrespected, forgotten...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He should keep in mind that many physicists were already excluded from the chemistry department: Canan Karaalioglu, Kamil Walczak, Uday Sukhatme, Akhil Lal. How this unproductive rookie can survive? Go on and do what Athanastopolis is telling you to do. Curve, increase, give grades for coming to class. Stay afloat.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Despite his issues and unproductivity, this teacher has no other skills.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I love physics and the topics can be quite obvious to me. But his teaching style and inability to present simple ideas for the sake of explaining concepts made this subject very confusing. Don't fall for his tricks.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I don't recommend him. He is spending his time reading slides.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A really good professor. Funny and enjoyable to be around. Wants you to understand the material well and is willing to help a lot in and out of class. Tests aren't easy but if you keep up with labs, worksheets, and old tests he posts, you can do well. Whoever is writing all the really bad reviews is some salty old student, disregard them lol.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very passive and unable to catch up with everything. He will not survive, but who cares?

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Is it possible to get tenure without a single publication? This is certainly possible at pace university, where standards for faculty and students has been set up very low. Erik may easily survive. Problem solved.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I'm a little bit confused. On one hand, Erik is a nice guy. On the other hand, he is a very poor teacher (although I wouldn't call him lousy). Strange, but true.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Lascaris was ALWAYS willing to help with homework questions, practice tests, labs etc even at times not during his office hours.If that's not a teacher that cares about the success of his students,I don't know what is.With any class you don't just "get" decent/passing grades you EARN them!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PROFESSOR. He clearly does not care about how you do in his class and his course description is a bunch of lies. He should be fired immediately.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
No wonder physics is shattered at pace. This teacher has no vision, no useful projects, no students interested in physics, no papers on the horizon, no actual plan how to change it, no clear grading criteria, no sympathy, no time to lose, no good opinions... very unlikely to continue like this.