Reviews of professor Steven Murphy

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Murphy explains the content very well and is very open to questions. His pace is a little fast, but he is willing to slow down on a topic that may be difficult. In general, he is a great lecturer and a great teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Murphy is one of my favorite teachers on this campus as he is an incredible teacher who cares for his students. Although he goes a little fast in class, he is very accessible during office hours and kind when answering questions. I highly recommend taking any courses that he teaches.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I love Dr. Murphy so much. Incredible professor who truly cares about his students. The entire general chemistry team is awesome here, can't say enough great things. Relatively difficult class though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Chem 105 itself was incredibly difficult and content heavy, and the weekly challenges and tests are so hard. Murphy himself though is the absolute best. He would take almost the whole lecture just to get to students' questions, but still was always ahead of the other classes somehow. If you want the "why" and "how" for chem, he is great.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Murphy was a great lecturer, and I plan on taking him again for Gen Chem II. The textbook is available on Brightspace but I honestly didn't use it all semester. Make sure you go to class because participation is a decent part of your grade, and doing the ALEKS hw actually really helps too.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very good at simplifying topics and answering questions. I would argue that the weekly challenges are harder than the learning assessments, mainly because WCs are group-based (ew). I also didn't like ALEKS but it's very good for studying. It's a lot of material in very little time. Also, use the ACS study book for the final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Murphy is a great guy and genuinely cares about his students. Lowkey have stockholm syndrome because I didn't do as well as I wanted to and the tests are hard, but Murphy answers questions and teaches the content well. Spent 90% of my time studying for this class because the chem department makes everything so difficult, but would recommend him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very nice man who's clearly passionate about chemistry. Only critique I have about him is that he often speeds through topics that can be difficult to understand, but if you go to his office hours, he will definitely help you through anything you need more clarification on. It's obvious that he wants everyone to do well in his class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
chem is hard but dr. murphy is a great prof. he explains things well and answers questions pretty clearly. class definitely requires studying. weekly challenges with groups were hard and you don't get a lot of time. tests were also pretty hard. he doesn't provide enough application style practice questions but neither does the other prof.