Reviews of professor Olivier Bauchau

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Probably one of the worst professors I've had. Genuinely nice guy, just sucks at teaching. He uses weird notations and conventions, jumps through steps without explaining, gives nonsensical answers to student questions, and goes off on useless tangents. He also wrote the book, which while it helps, is pretty bad, even for textbook standards.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He will not post your grade, at all, for literally the entire semester, and he didnt hand back homework assignments except maybe one or two randomly - so no one in the class ever knew how well they were doing until a grade appeared on the transcript. Doesnt teach the material needed on homeworks, lectures are almost random trivia. Nice guy though

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ugh this class was such an annoyance. The homeworks are actually pretty easy and mostly graded for completion. The exams were awful and had terrible averages. He basically scribbles random things during lecture and doesnt answer questions easily. Go to TA office hours, they were pretty helpful. Theres a fat curve at the end too. Went from C- to B-.