HARD HARD HARD!!! You think you know the material until you see the test questions..... moves very fast in lectures and did I say the tests are hard... because they are hard.

If you have a choice, do not take this class from Watson. She's rude and always seems mad when people ask for any help. Also, she is horrible at lecturing and explaining topics. Overall, a horrible class.

Claire can be nice, but not often. Her French accent is very hard to understand, and her handwriting is hard to read. She burns through problems so fast you can't keep up. Her tests are brutal, she gives moderately difficult problems on the homework and test reviews but then writes the most difficult problems possible for the tests.

She prints out lecture notes, then reads them verbatim for the entire hour of lecture. Yes Dr. Watson, we all know how to read. Of course you can't just skip her useless lectures because there are i-clicker points (likely due to the fact that nobody went to her lectures). She spends half the class deriving, even though it isn't on the exams.

Claire was an interesting professor.... She is french and occasionally it can be hard to understand her. What bothered me most about her class is when she did equations on the board 99.7% of the time we would have to correct her because she made mistakes she expected us not to make. I recommend going to other professors office hours or reviews.

Don't ever take this professor. Doesn't matter what class she's giving. She is unclear on everything she teaches, offers no help, and is unrealistic in her grading. Expect to argue a lot on her grading if you have her as a professor. Due dates are ridiculous, and most of the time you will not know what is due, and will lose points on everything.

Hardest teacher I have ever had. The concepts in this class are not difficult but somehow Claire makes them. She makes the exams ten times harder than any homework or quizzes. She does not give you enough time. Not a fan of Claire Watson at all.

angry, not helpful, rude, doesn't explain anything only reason i passed is because i spent many, many hours in the tutoring lab and in TA's office hours. had to read the chapters in the textbook several times to make sense of material, even after lecture

Good luck understanding anything in lecture or from the book, both are horrible. Go to the recitation, the TA usually teaches the concepts better. Grades very nit picky and not clear on her expectation. Makes frequent mistakes during lectures. Tests will kill or save you, she teaches very analytically but tests and grades on concepts and format.

I really Wish that professor Watson would get on her and review the commentary regarding her teaching style. She is by far the worst teacher that i have ever had. I even scored a B in the final of the class. The only thing that helped me understand the materials were the recitations taught by grad students. She is aweful!!!

Don't advise to take it anything with her.

Class is a joke. Lectures are Pointless, she does a horrible job. All material is learned in recitation via recitation instructors. But most of all the tests are B.S. not much of a test of knowledge rather than a race of writing. Class would be better tought by one of the recitation instructors and exams need to be adjusted, more time or less mater

Watson is super smart but I dont think she realizes that we are learning the course for the first time, she moves through material so quick with almost no time to take notes or actually understand, I learned the whole course in recitation. The Exams are very complicated and hard to even finish, plan on 5 quizzes a week as well. Toughest class yet..

This class by far takes up a ton of time. The professor talks a million miles per second and doesn't like to answer questions. The class is so focused on using algebra that you learned years ago and all of the trick that its hard to pass the tests. There are also a ton of quizzes you take like 6 quizzes a week.

Dr. Watson is very helpful when you talk to her during office hours but she hates questions during lecture. The exams are extremely difficult and you only have one class period to complete them. The homework is fairly difficult and time consuming, and recitation is mandatory because quizzes are taken at the end of it.

She goes over the material way too fast and not in a way that can be easily understood. She doesnt show much mercy with grading and insults others intelligence.

This class is a fire hydrant class. She throws information at you and expects you to absorb as much as possible. I know a lot of people that take it in the summer from someone else that learned so much more. This is a very important topic and the fact that it is this poorly taught is an absolute insult to the students.

The layout of the class is horrible and Claire uses the fact that its a lot of material as an excuse for not helping the students. The recitations are the only places where you will learn anything.

TAKE THE CLASSES SEPARATE OR THE COMBINED OVER THE SUMMER! Read all other comments for the general idea. If you want to stay up every night teaching yourself the material and possibly get a B, take Clair. If you want to understand, get an A, and have a good time, summer for you. This class is the reason 50% don't make professional program.

When the class gets an average of a 30% on a quiz Watson is one of those professors that somehow looks at the stats and thinks "wow these students suck at learning" instead of "wow I did a horrible job of teaching that." She's rude to students that ask questions and grades very hard. Manages to make the material way more complicated than it is.

Avoid Claire like the plague. Her lectures are so fast and unorganized. Does not prepare you for the tests at all. Worst professor I've ever had.

Doesn't understand students questions. Lectures are confusing. Not many other study materials

I can't say enough about how bad my experience with Claire was. She doesn't like to be asked questions and I feel like when I did ask questions, I was ridiculed. Dropped the class a few weeks into the semester.

In class, if a person asked a question she would get an attitude of like why don't you understand this it's simple. She wouldn't explain some steps which makes it difficult to learn a hard new concept.

She explains things alright, however her tests are generally not on the material covered/ harder than the material covered. The exam percentages were very low for my class. She has weekly quizzes/ homework Would not recommend and actively avoid this teacher unless she is the only one teaching the class.

She's a nice lady but by far the worst math teacher I've ever had. She gives little time to complete homework and is a very harsh grader with homework and exams. I would recommend avoid taking a class from her at all costs. She has lots of reviews but I was never able to attend do to my part time job.

If you are a math major, you will probably like Professor Watson. Otherwise, her class is probably too pointlessly difficult to be worth taking. Her tests often have questions that are needlessly tedious or require extensive algebra to solve, and were much harder than reviews and homework. She makes the class harder than it needs to be.

I got an A in both Calc 1 and Calc 2 and this class is so much more of a step up in difficulty. Professor Watson covers mostly proofs in lectures instead of talking about how to do the math. The only practice problems covered were at the end of a lecture in a rushed manner and often after the class was scheduled to end so most people missed them.

Many reviews state that Watson is a great professor, but that is only true if her teaching style matches you. If you do well with course content but not so great with exams, strap in. She is available for office hours, so take advantage of that. She wants you to succeed, even if her tests are far more difficult and unrelated to the homework.

Probably the worst professor I have had yet at USU. Going to lectures is basically pointless in this class. She has a french accent and moves very fast paste, making it very hard to understand concepts. There is a quiz every week, and at least 4 or more homework assignments due every week.

SO. MUCH. WORK. (6+ hrs weekly). 2-4 assignments, 2-4 worksheets, and 1 quiz every week. The lectures were not helpful whatsoever because she goes too fast to actually absorb information. Each exam is 25% of your grade so if you do badly on one then too bad for you. I don't even know what I paid for because I had to teach myself everything anyway.

I do about 10 hours of homework each week for this class. You can expect 4-6 assignments per week, and to spend lots of time in the Tutoring center. In class she talks faster than you can write down. It is extremely fast paced. Right now I have an A, but it is a very frustrating class. It is a heavy load.

She moves pretty fast in the lectures, and she's got a French accent that can make it hard to understand her sometimes. I didn't get much out of the lectures. Calculus 2 is a difficult class, and I would not recommend you take it with Watson unless you can teach yourself. I dropped it, took it with another professor during the summer, and got an A.