Reviews of professor Chris O'Dea

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lets start by saying if you aren't great at math this will be challenging. You have to put in effort. Dr. O'Dea is great, very friendly, and is passionate about what he teaches. Easy to access outside of class, and very willing to explain concepts to you. Physics isn't a super easy class, but if you attend lectures and read the material youre good!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's really bad at explaining literally everything and doesn't finish his sentences. I kinda feel bad for him because all he does is read whats on the slides and he struggles doing just that. He also goes through examples really quick and prints very tiny. He's not very helpful in person either.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
His class was easy and I got an A in the Astro course. But I would never recommend him as a teacher. During lectures he seems really confused and when you try asking questions he seems to be in a rush and gives you a very useless response. I did good in the course by just reading the notes. He wasnt any help at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
terrible lecturer

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you have any prior astronomy knowledge (or took 1830), this class is extremely easy. Lectures are super boring despite interesting material, and have a small iClicker portion. Assignments were short and sweet, and the final was very easy too. Notes provided were fine, just very basic in nature. All around completely average.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
An easy class and a good professor. Sometimes wears his horse vest which is very fun. A lot of iclickers but overall interesting subject and shouldn't be hard to pass.