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She's a nice teacher trying to explain the unintuitive, insane and inexplicable stuff of Quantum Mechanics.

Doreen made her classes fun. Just watching her scamper around the chalkboard was entertaining. She is also very helpful if you go to her office hours. Very friendly professor!

Read her online notes before come to class, do the old exams and voila.....score an A

She's nuts! She's so hilariously nerdy. I love her vests.

very organized. powerlectures are so better than her handwritng. Ican tellshe words hard on hte course

Doreen is great!

I thought she was a really sweet lady. Unlike many other of my teachers, she allowed a bunch of extra credit (which was really needed). The questions from her tests were sometimes taken from the old tests...however instead of just have A-D scantron, it was like A-J...too many options. Shes very resonable and her lectures are very helpful.

A wonderful teacher.

Lecture was OK, not an interesting subject, but she gets excited about it. Tests were very hard, 8 choices on most questions with common mathematical errors as choices.

Although Doreen's lectures can be hard to follow, she is very helpful and easy to talk to if you go to her office hours outside of class. Also, when I took the class, she had just started something new: lecture-by-lecture "homeworks." If you read the book before each lecture, keep up with the homework problems, and study the old exams, you'll be OK

she talks very fast. her notes online are great! if u attend lectures and do hw, u'll do fine. her tests are just like the problems she does in class. i would definitely take her again.

Really interesting class, and incredibly easy. Lots of fun.

She is a very sweet lady and loves chemistry so much it is kind of weird. But she is always willing to help during office hours. Her tests are multiple choice (typically options A-H) which is hard, but she offers extra credit problems online so you can get up to 20 points (which ends up being 4 test questions). I'd take a class with her again.

If you care about doing well, Doreen's helpful and you can tell she works hard at the class. Great teacher.

Chem 1022 Really good at explaining and fair tests

Doreen speaks quickly but is enthusiastic (love it), willing to meet outside of class and clarify problems, and rapidly responds to emails. She Provides lecture notes and PLENTY of review materials on line. Unless you just could care less or don't make a slight attempt at the homework, this class is both useful and easy.

Doreen seems a little crazy about chemistry but enjoys what she teaches. Its a little hard to understand her at times and the homework doesnt help a whole lot with the exams. She does provide all past exams along with the answer keys and those were EXTREMELY helpful when studying!! (strongly recommended). She is very helpful in office hours as well

She explains everything at a slow pace. This makes her easy to understand. She clearly enjoys what she is doing. Her powerpoints are clear and useful for notetaking.

She's a good teacher. Her notes are all on powerpoint slides which you can print off and bring to class, and she blanks-out portions of the notes so you have to follow along and fill in the missing notes during class from here completed slides. Her tests are hard! Practicing with previous exams is the best advice out there in studying for her exams

Dr. Leopold is an enthusiastic and friendly professor; she has both a passion for and a commanding knowledge of chemistry. Excellent lecturer. Three midterms and a comprehensive final form the lecture grade. Exam questions have 8 possible multiple choice answers with very plausible distracters. She published past exams which were very helpful.

Doreen has a passion for chemistry, but lectures are useless to attend. We were not allowed to use calculators on exams, therefore strong math skills are needed. You will learn a lot of you are willing to study hard- she offers endless resources and old tests which is EXTREMELY helpful!

She rambles, mumbles, stutters and makes a mistake every once in a while. Her tests are fair and she frequently uses questions from the bountiful supply of old tests she gives you access to. Make sure you do the calculator free multiple choice practice problems and watch out for the calculator free midterms.

Her tests were extremely difficult, something she seemed to enjoy. The average for our class were lower than all of the other lectures by a lot! The second midterm is calculator free so you need to know how to do basic math with decimals and logs. Her lectures were helpful and straight forward, but a little boring at times.

I was worried about Doreen after reading reviews, however I find her charming. She is quite awkward in class and in person but very personable. Her lectures seem a little confusing but if you visit her in office hours she is incredibly helpful. Tests are fair and if you use tutors and office hours you can get a decent grade.

She was a very sweet lady. The lectures weren't bad either- she had a good mix of concepts and examples that we worked through together. I recommend you print out the slides and fill in the blanks... I didn't do that but I kind of wish I did. Office hours before exams were very helpful too.

I didn't skip lectures but you should. Read the book and do the homework during that time. So important: do *all* the practice exams she makes available to you, and learn the concepts those cover as best you can. The class is full of wretched little teenagers so if know the practice exams, you can beat the curve and get an A. Also, she's a sweetie.

The lecture got a little boring sometimes but everything was clear and understandable.

Professor Leopold goes above and beyond to help students succeed. She provides very detailed exam review sheets. Even though we have a solutions manual for the text, for some of the problems, she provided additional detail to explain the solutions. Her tests were very fair; we were tested on the material in the review sheets.

This prof genuinely cares about the success of her students! Her lectures are fairly average; but she provides students with all the tools they need to do well (notes, slides, book pages etc.) She is also very approachable and more than willing to answer any questions a student may have. Would take again!

Very good teacher who created a class that made learning quantum mechanics fun.

Professor Leopold knows how to present difficult material clearly. Lecture slides are put online which is helpful. Doing the non-graded homework helped a lot in preparing for tests (which aren't written to trick you), and while the study guides posted before each test were long, they outlined exactly what you should know. Great teacher!

Leopold is an incredibly fair and considerate teacher. Lecture slides aligned with her syllabus, and she provided plenty of study materials (review sheet, posted lectures, past exams) to prepare for exams. Very approachable and went out of her way to ensure that people could attend her office hours (always wanted more people to show up!).

Doreen goes through the material that she tests you on. As long as you go to class and fill out the note sheets that she provides, you'll have all of the information that you need to do well on the exams. I suggest that you do the optional book homework because her test questions are slightly similar.

Doreen makes difficult topics less painful to learn about. Her lectures are somewhat boring, but she is very nice and means well. She posts old exams and lecture slides online, which is really convenient for studying. As long as you review the material enough and do the optional end-of-chapter text book problems she provides, you'll pass.

Personally, I thought she was a decent teacher. Sometimes shes not the best at explaining certain concepts in depth, however overall, the lectures werent that bad. I would recommend reading prior to them though. Quizzes were a little challenging since multiple answers could be right. Shes very accessible and a very caring professor.

Doreen is one of the sweetest professors I have had and truly cares about her students. Sometimes her explanations could be confusing but she was usually pretty clear. We had biweekly quizzes which was nice and less stressful than 3 larger midterms. ALEKS is optional but helpful for tests. Gives plenty of study tools (old tests and book problems)

She is a very sweet and funny lady. I think she really cares about her students. I think her lectures are good. She provides a lot of study tools and resources to help her students be successful.

Doreen is a solid professor. She can be a little awkward in her speaking manner, but she really cares about her students and presents material clearly. Course material can be challenging, be prepared to put in work outside of lecture, read the textbook and do practice problems & ALEKS (optional). Her exams are very fair, no tricks. I recommend her!

Nice, but most learning must be done outside of class.

Super nice teacher. Structures lectures in a unique way; encourages students to print the slides off beforehand and fill in the blanks during class. I like this style of lecture because I can actually listen to her lectures, the only downside is that she's pretty boring. Extra practice outside lecture is a must to get a good grade like most chem

An amazing lady who's quite nice and quirky in a good way. Class isn't too bad if you stay on top of everything. The ALEKS helps a lot since her lectures can be hard to follow sometimes.

Overall a super nice lady. Funny and sarcastic. Goes on tangents sometimes in class, and tends to teach as if we're grad students who already have outstanding knowledge of chemistry. Still, her notes are clear and if you study what she teaches in class, you'll pass. I never read the textbook and only used it for practice problems.

Great teacher, makes jokes in lecture and knows what she's doing

Doreen is the sweetest professor ever. Her lectures are sometimes hard to follow, but doing Aleks helps a ton and will teach you everything you need to know. Also do the practice exams before a test. I really liked how it was 5 smaller quizzes rather than 2 big midterms, helped my grade a bunch because they were all very straightforward.

Doreen is the sweetest professor. Although chemistry isn't known to be an easy class, she makes it a lot easier by providing many practice exams, notes posted online, and many practice problems. The 5 quiz format is a life saver for your grade. She also clearly is passionate about chemistry. Take this class with Doreen, and you will succeed!

Doreen was a very kind, intelligent, and effective prof. She continuously allowed to meet with students outside of her scheduled office hours. Her lectures can be a tad dull at times, but it is general chemistry, so how exciting can they be? She likes to put tricks on her quizzes, so know your stuff. Skip the Aleks. Textbook problems are useful.

Professor Leopold is a competent and knowledgable instructor. However, she does teach at such a high level that some students can't comprehend the material completely. She has great resources to prepare for the quizzes/final exam. I never used my textbook. Her quizzes are based heavily on her slides. ALEKS is helpful for reviewing the material.

Professor Leopold was definitely a gem of a teacher. Her lectures might get boring at times, but they were important to attend though not always necessary. Listen, dont do Aleks and dont do the book problems. All the information for the quizzes are on the lecture slide notes and practice tests. Know the ins and outs of them. Very reachable.

I enjoyed taking CHEM 1062 with Doreen. Her quizzes were fair and, although her lectures were a little dry, she presented all of the material that she expects you to know very clearly. I recommend doing ALEKS, even though it is optional for her course. She is a very kind and patient professor who respects her students, responds to email quickly.

Doreen is a pretty good professor. Although her lecturing can be confusing and awkward at times, the structure of her class (5 quizzes instead of big tests) is super convenient and shows that she cares about her students. Her quizzes are very reasonable just by understanding the lecture slides and doing some problems in the textbook.

Doreen is very very caring for her students, but her lecture is very very boring. each quiz is concentrated in one chapter, which makes it easy.

Quizzes are very fair and she doesn't relish trick questions like other professors in the department. Even though her lectures are dry, her expectations are clear and reasonable. 5 quiz set up is great - can drop lowest score or have the final exam count by half. She's not super exciting, but she does care a lot about students - I recommend her!

Chem 1061 was the fattest L Ive ever eaten in my life. However, Doreen fed it to me sweetly. She is a lively, fun professor who really loves chem and wants us to do our best. We were disadvantaged by corona, but she did her best to accommodate us to help with our success. Chem is still hard tho.

Chemistry is a hard topic to grasp but Doreen made it bearable. Such a sweet person, could never image her being mean to anyone. She gets off topic sometimes but she usually catches herself without going too far. Laughs at her own jokes lol Good class overall

Confused on any concept, she is there to help. class is slightly more challenging than the other chemistry classes, but she really helps her students.

This women is the saving grace of freshman chemistry. Was ready to give up on STEM almost completely after taking chem first semester, but Doreen is so sweet and helpful. Provides WAY more tools for success than any alternative teacher and has ample office hours if you need any help. Love love love her if you have to take 1062 take it with Doreen.

I struggle with chemistry at the UMN and hear that most chemistry professors are not great, however Dr. Leopold was a very kind and educational professor. My grade is not reflective of her lack of teaching but my lack of going to lecture lol.

The workload for this course is reasonable, as well as the grading scale used. The exams are very representative of the material on the slides. The practice exams and review sheets are very close to what is on the actual exams. Going to lecture is not necessarily beneficial, because all the information presented is on the posted slides.

I honestly really liked her. She is very understanding and caring. I emailed her about my failing grade, and she worked with me and come up with a plan to pass this class. After doing well on the final and the last three quizzes (as we agreed), she bumped up my grade! She recognizes circumstances and hard work.

I really liked Leopold. She is the sweetest person. Fair grading and minimal HW. She has all the materials posted on canvas for you to succeed including study guides, practice exams, & lecture videos, which were all very helpful for the quizzes. She may have not been the best in terms of lecturing, but you can do well taking this course with her.

She understands a lot about her material which sometimes leads to her going through slides way too fast in lecture. Overall, the exams are very applicable and oftentimes only need to be studied with the equation sheet, although the textbook definitely helps. She is very understanding and caring for students and she is just so cute! I love Doreen!

1062 is a notorious weed-out class and designed to be difficult for no reason, but thats depts fault. Dr. Leopold is super nice and holds regular office hours in a class room to talk about class content or anything else, I just struggled with the exams because they're weighted so heavily and no curve

While her teaching style is not everyone's favorite, her lecture slides are very detailed and contain everything you need to know. Attendance was optional because she posts lecture videos on canvas. Keep up with your work and you can get an A.

Doreen is a sweet professor but going to lecture isn't necessary as the tests and homework are your entire grade, and they can be done with just the slides she posts. It definitely saves a lot of time to just learn the content on your own especially if you get the 8 am class. Tests align with slides and study guides well.

Doreen is a great teacher, attendance isn't required as lecture videos are posted but go to class. You'll understand more. Do the homeworks before each exam and go over old exams and practice problems. Don't need to use the textbook at all. Homework can be turned in late up to a week. She curved class after the final and rounds grades.

I felt on edge the entire semester but everything turned out fine. The tests are multiple-choice and very difficult because they cover so much material. Doreen is so sweet, and you can tell she wants everyone to do well.

Leopold is a very kind professor who wants her students to do well, but her lecture slides are very wordy and the majority of the points came from tests. However, she provides a lot of resources to study for tests, and you can usually do pretty well on tests if you use them all. The study guides were close to the actual tests.

Doreen cares about her students and encourages participation. Her lectures are not always the most put together, but has prerecorded lectures that you can look at that are much more helpful. She is very sweet and truly cares about what she is teaching. There is a lot of learning and homework to do outside of class, but it is manageable.

Very kind and knowledgeable professor. Lectures are sometimes confusing, tests cover content directly mentioned in class, and extra credit is provided in lecture. Professor often speaks quietly so sitting towards front might be recommended. As long as you pay attention and finish the homeworks you should end up with a good grade.

The practice tests that she posts where the tests from the previous semester and she posted very clear study guides making what would be on the test very easy to know and do well on. She posts a ton of resources and definitely wants her students to do well.

attendance not mandatory and quite easy class. very worth it.

Took Fall 2023. For this class, Dr. Leopold was pretty flexible and understanding. Class time largely consisted of discussing readings, with light lecturing about chemical principles.

Professor Leopold is great if not a little dry during lectures. Her speech itself is very quiet, even with the mics. I would sit towards the front. I had some testing issues, and she was more than happy to accommodate them, and is generally very interested in student's success.

awesome teacher!!!

my fav teacher at umn

My goat i love her so much

I found this class surprisingly manageable as somebody who hadn't taken Chemistry since sophomore year of high school. Do all the homework's and complete the provided practice exams 5+ times leading up to the test. Understand the lecture slides very well and the conceptual MC problems should be no issue. Plenty of resources available to succeed.

Genuinely so endearing and sweet -- wants you to succeed. I actually took the class Fall '24 and I had the Tues/Thurs 8:15; despite being so early, I went because she just put me in a good mood. Tests were pretty decent.

she is so sweet… i couldnt take the final because i had another final scheduled at that time… she brought me and the other students who had to take the makeup snacks while we took the exam!! GO TO HER LECTURES, DO NOT BE LIKE ME!!

She's very nice, sometimes rambles about stuff not relevant, but the syllabus is straightforward and she is especially helpful at office hours. I'd recommend going to lectures and sitting in front but also supplementing your learning with youtube videos since some of the stuff is a bit tough to understand.

She is so cute and really understands everything. I went to every single lecture which helped, but I zoned out for almost the entire time. I recommend reading the textbook to understand all the concepts and MEMORIZING the practice tests and the explanations for them. I did bad on the first two midterms and I was worried but she curved the class.