Reviews of professor Steven Chemtob

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Boring and uninspired teacher, shows up in unprofessional attire, reuses slides from 2020, overall terrible. Rambles on for extended periods and does not make actual important information known. Rips every assignment off of the internet and takes forever to grade. Under no circumstance should you take this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Steven is literally my favourite professor. If you're stupid you will fail like with most things in life. Assignments are easy. I liked the quizzes. Its just memorization. Its an easy class. He's a really good teacher and it's obvious he cares about this subject. Just come to class he's such a cutie pie. I enjoyed the class and I'd take it again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was awful. Unlike what the title suggests we barely watched any movies. The tests were difficult as there is so much content in the lecture powerpoints that he just speeds through. There is at least one homework assignment per week, which gets pretty overwhelming and boring. If you want any easy science gen-ed, look somewhere else!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Chemtob was a very good and funny teacher, and made me genuinely enjoy the coursework we did. Despite not watching a lot of movies, the course was still very fun and provided a lot of fun discussion. I would recommend taking this course with him if you can take notes fairly quickly, if not, you can access the lectures on the canvas.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Super nice guy, just doesn't go into enough detail on any topics. Even though it was an intro course, it seemed like he expected us to have extensive prior knowledge of the topics, oftentimes giving no more than a singular picture to explain a complex idea that would later be heavily tested on.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Disasters with Chemtob was more work than I'd like for a GenEd, but solid class overall. Lots of homework in particular and didn't watch as many movies as the title suggests. Exam wise, he keeps it pretty light, "micro" quizzes with unlimited attempts and a few larger unit quizzes. No final exam.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is very uptight. NO extra credit! He treats the class as if everyone already had an understanding of earth science. There's about 60 slides per presentation and two presentations per topic, so it's hard to study. Definitely do not take him if you are unfamiliar with geology. Barely watched any movies.