In my opinion, this course is set up terribly. Students are required to purchase a lecture book, which has a bunch of information and spaces to fill in notes during lectures. This book is absolutely riddled with typos and straight-up wrong information, and having to spend money on it was one of the most infuriating things I've ever had to do. The lectures themselves are mostly a prof going through a slideshow while the students fill in the lecture book with notes. The slides and the lecture book are, for the most part, the exact same, but for some reason there are extra slides in the slideshow that aren't in the lecture book that matter, but the prof never has any idea which slides these are so there's often not adequate time to take those extra notes. There are a series of quizzes that go...read more

The content was all over the place. We started with a little bit of quantum mechanics, then moved on to compound structures, and eventually moved on to content that had been covered in BC Chemistry 12. Nothing felt related, nothing has been useful for anything else. It was a little bit like shoving a bunch of random cheap trinkets in a box and calling it a chest of valuable treasure.

Tatiana was lovely and did her best to make this chaotic hodge-podge of information make sense. She was really good about including examples throughout the lecture more often than the slides had space for, sometimes to the point that the lectures felt boring because the examples weren't challenging at all anymore. She was super responsive by email and very willing to arrange meetings outside of office hours if necessary. If I ever had the opportunity to take another course with her I would without question.

If you have your Chem 12 notes, keep them. I wished I had mine more than once. Don't rush through the quizzes, you have lots of time to get through them and can't go back once you've moved on from a question. Always submit something for the lab report. Unless you have a particularly mean TA they're super easy markers.