Reviews of professor Russell Larsen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The Professor himself is very nice however he cannot teach well, I actually started doing better in class by just doing the online exercises and reading the textbook. He does provide adequate test reviews 82% of your grade is based on exams, it saddens and disappoints me that this is the best the UH chem department has to offer.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Larsen is by far one of the best Chem professors UH has to offer. He offers extra credit, assigns one HW due at the end of the week, and provides a variety of practice exams to prepare you for the test. Test are kinda scary since they make up 94% of your grade but that's the same for any Chem 2 class at UH.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Larsen is great, Honestly the only reason I got a C+ was because I was fooling around and focused on the wrong classes. Chems a hard subject but Dr. Larsen will definitely explain it better than anyone else at UH. Just pay attention. When you show up take notes on an ipad or notebook and go through your notes every day to recall what you leaned

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Good person but does not know how to teach at all. He focuses on the wrong parts for exam. They are random question bank so you can get very unlucky. you could literally skip all lectures and watch yt or read the textbook and still get a better grade than people who attend his lecture. just watch tom teets,organic chemistry tutor and read txtbook.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr Larsen is absolutely excellent. His lectures come straight out of the textbook so anything he lectures you need to know on the exam. His class is 6% hw and 94% exams (20 per midterm 34 for final) with the opportunity of 2 bonus points added to your final grade via extra credit quizzes (which are a great learning tool) that are given.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
larsen is a good person but teaching wise not really. he talks a lot about the overall concepts in chemistry but then just starts dozing off on a tangent. he records his lectures for online so that's good however, utilizing the homework and quizzes will be your best bet in doing well. in office hours he is very sweet and will accomodate issues/q's

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although the chemistry department isn't that great at UH, Larsen is awesome when it comes to teaching chemistry. He is easy to understand when he explains conceptual things. He also assigns 4 mini quizzes and a HW per week about what was taught in lecture for the week, which helps in preparation for understanding and studying for exams.