CHEM 1410

Metcalf is clearly very knowledgeable about chemistry, but the way he explains some of the more advanced topics was not the best. The textbook definitely helped understand these topics, but still it was hard to grasp without someone to explain it to you. Metcalf's class was definitely more difficult than the other professors and it was graded harder than the other professors' (ex: Metcalf clicker questions are partially based on accuracy whereas the other professors only had clicker questions for a participation grade). Overall, the class wasn't terrible, but I would recommend taking it with another professor instead.

Metcalf sucks, likes to give students bad grades, and just doesn't really care about his students. If you do the readings and pay attention though you can get a solid B. Basically this is a weed out for premeds and engineers, good luck.

Avoid Metcalf if possible. He barely taught anything; everything I learned was from the textbook or from my high school chemistry classes. He is very bad at explaining concepts, and makes them seem more complicating than they actually are. Go take it with Welch and Morkowchuk if you can. I have heard are much better.

Metcalf isn't the greatest professor. He is nearly impossible to pay attention to because all of his lectures are so dry. Just go to class to get the clicker questions correct, stay on top of your reading (and read BEFORE you get to class so you can at least try to pay attention to Metcalf's monotony), and use these lecture notes since they are pretty much all that you'll need to know: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7m7vrP2fFK5RzNZblMwOGxaMDg