CHEM 1410

He's a great teacher. Lectures are interesting and engaging. Always avaliable during office hours. Easily approachable.

Great professor, one of the most easibly accessible and willing to help professors I've had at UVA.

Professor Grisham is a really enthusiastic professor - he really loves chemistry. Class is broken down into weekly online homework (10%), 4 15-question Quiz grades(60%), and one 30-question Final(30%). What that means is every question wrong on a quiz or the final is 1% of your final grade. One thing to remember in this class is that only top 18% get A's.

Professor Grisham is a great teacher, I loved his lecture. The keys to his class, and he'll tell you himself is to do problems. Study the MasteringChemistry questions and all the chapter questions at the end of the chapter. Also make sure you read his lecture notes and do the practice problems on there. He posts the slides so studying the lecture notes should be easy enough.

Great Professor and he's really quirky and interesting. He really cares about making sure you understand the information and cares about teaching chemistry in general. He makes a rather goofy laugh all the time that I thought was hilarious but idk what other people thought haha. His quizzes and final were hard though and a bit tricky even if you were well prepared.

DO NOT TAKE GRISHAM! TAKE GERRANS! charles is a cute dorky little man, but do not let his quirky and adorable exterior fool you. I survived 141 with a B, but 142 is horrible. During class, i thought i understood things, and usually i did get the concepts, but after studying for what seemed like an eternity and doing ridiculous amounts of practice problems, i got a c 2nd semester! this class is math intensive. I am a good science person (i got an A IN LAB!) but the problems on the quizzes were out of control. especially since the format was multiple choice. do not take this! i am pre-med and it is the worst grade on my transcript.

Very passionate about chemistry and very helpful. Pay attention in lecture because his quizzes come from lecture

He is a great professor who is very passionate about what he teaches. However, at times I think that he is too passionate--he requires that you learn application info that he calls "chemsitry in your world." I also did not like how he is the only chem 141 professor who does clicker questions.

Professor Grisham is very enthusiastic and readily relates the material to its relevancy in modern issues. Although he is a good professor, he tends to go through slides and calculations quickly in lecture but still expects you to know how to do these calculations in class via clicker questions so COME PREPARED! However for those of you who think he is going to test you on the main components of the chapters BEWARE he likes to use the most obscure information in each chapter for his quizzes. I would recommend Professor Gerrans if you have not taken AP chem and are mathematically challenged or you don't have a friend who is willing to help you that has taken AP chem.

The class would've been easy if Professor Grisham actually tested you on chemistry. He makes you come to class with clicker question and these current events articles called "chemistry in your world" that he makes you responsible for. He even puts one or two of them on the quiz, which messed me up a lot. I was always prepared for quizzes but it was always those gay "chem in your world" questions that got me. He doesn't really teach either; he reads off of the slides that the textbook company provides; they could pay me to do that. I averaged a 13 on quizzes and got a 29/30 on the exam and managed to pull an A, but having another professor would've saved me a lot of frustration during the semester.