Seriously, his teaching skill needs to be improved for sure.

harsh grading, unclear lecture, disorganized test.

terrible professor. no help. could not of been worse

Tests aren't too tricky but lecturing is atrocious. Seems like a cool guy to play tennis with but probably the last professor you want explaining physics concepts to non physics majors. Loves to cram material in the last 10 minutes of class.

Lectures are not engaging and seems to have a short temperament. Answers questions in tangents and is overall confusing. You're going to have to read the book to learn any physics.

2/3 through the semester and he is by far one of the most difficult professors I have had. Goes quickly through material in class and very standoffish, even when he is sometimes wrong. Tests do not completely reflect homework and lecture and require a lot more studying and conceptual knowledge than he prepares you for.

spends the 1st ten minutes of EVERY lecture figuring out how to work the projector. Then stops class multiple to complain about how he is freezing (in 75 degree weather). Makes an issue out of every little thing, repeatedly called tech support for non-issues in the middle of lecture. Everybody is lost in the lecture by minute 15

Lecture are super unclear and unhelpful, tests are difficult and sometimes NOT reflective of course material. He has to be one of the worst physics professors in the department. I highly recommend not taking him if there are others available.

His exams are emotionally and mentally exhausting, which would be fine for a STEM class if his teaching style wasn't atrocious and he wasn't a condescending ass in office hours. Half the class walked out the second and third exams feeling wrecked. Final exam was MC (goodbye partial credit!). He also HIT ON AN UNDERGRAD in front of 50 students.

Incredibly conceited, unpleasant, and disinterested. Go to lecture if you're in the mood to waste 75 minutes.

He does not know how to teach or answer any questions. During OH, he is not helpful in explaining answers, rather tells you to improve study habits. He does not know how to write fair exam questions that match up to class content and his distribution of midterm questions is absolutely off point.

His exam questions do not match anything he goes over in lectures or in the homework, and expects you to figure out a complex problem youve never seen before in a short period of time. Very stressful even though the purpose of a dispersed midterm is supposed to alleviate some of the anxiety.

This course was very poorly taught. He used Teams instead of Canvas and Zoom. No content taught in the sync classes and async lectures were not helpful. The homework on WebAssign was not horrible but did not help in the grand scheme of the distributed midterm questions that did not help with stress due to the complexity of problems in no time....

Absolutely the worst professor I've ever taken at Emory, I can't believe he is still allowed to teach students. Tells students their questions are stupid and refuses to answer, assumes everyone is a genius like him, and just overall rude and mean. So unfair that he is the only 142 professor and got stuck with him, avoid him at all costs if possible

Dr. Berland is terrible at teaching material to students through his lectures. I cannot recall how many times I finished an asynchronous video more confused than before I watched it. I mostly learned physics 2 using the textbook and YouTube. He was also quite condescending whenever I would ask questions about the material.

The only good thing about this class was that I didn't have to show up. Attendance is not mandatory, so I didn't have to waste my time trying to understand Dr. Berland's poor explanations. After watching his lectures, I was more confused. Webassign is not a good platform to test students. Unfortunately, he doesn't listen to reason.

I genuinely dont understand how some people actually like this professor. The exams are insanely hard and the professor is not even nice; he will sometimes yell and blame on you for things. There is no such thing as "accommodation" in his line of teaching. Try not to take any of his classes, unless you want to kill your GPA for fun.

Horrible teacher. Lazy. Terrible attitude. YouTube and the Textbook will teach you Physics better than this man. At least his exams are a lot easier and straightforward. However, the WebAssign format making them all or nothing makes it incredibly stressful.

Tests questions are fair, but the webassign formatting is terrible, easily tanking my grade because this format does not work for me. Berland doesnt care if you are struggling and is a super condescending. And its sad, because I enjoyed the content I learned this semester, I just had a poor professor who ruined the entire experience for me.

Dr. Berland is extremely narcissistic and rude to students. During class, office hours, and exams he would be extremely condescending to students who ask questions and he is terrible at lecturing. His testing format is horrific yet he doesn't listen to CONSTANT student complaints about it. Consider taking 152 instead to avoid him, save your GPA.

If you have the ability to exempt out of this class or take it with another professor, I highly recommend doing so. Dr. Berland is one of the worst professors I've had at Emory. Although his class is a fairly easy A, he assigns a lot of busy-work and unnecessary assignments, he refuses to use Canvas, and his lectures are always off-topic.

Explains concepts in an insanely convoluted way, so self-study is basically necessary. Also a midterm not even 2 weeks into the semester, wtf?

Can't explain concepts in an understandable way at all. Technical difficulties every class, and on top of this, very condescending during office hours. Would 100% avoid!

Don't take this class. You are never given review classes and there is such a disconnect between what's taught in class and what's on exams. Tests make up the majority of your grade and they are never curved so be aware.

He's been teaching for 23 yrs yet hasn't figured out how to give organized, informative lectures that encompass the hw/test material. The course material itself is difficult but it is understandable with self studying using outside resources. OH are not helpful unless you wanna be belittled and does not care about his students! also the ponytail :/

Put simply, Keith Berland's lectures are as useless as nipples on a man. You would learn more simply reading the textbook during lecture than actually paying attention to him and his hoola hoop. The "M0" test a few weeks after start of semester is unnecessary and dumb. Worst professor at Emory in my experience. I despise him and his manbun.

Berland's lectures have no direction or plan whatsoever. He rambles on wherever his mind takes him and is unclear in his explanations. Reaching out to him outside of class is a hit or miss. He's pretty moody and the fate of your grade could depend on how he's feeling that day. Don't waste your time, study from the book.

Doesn't make sense. Lectures aren't reflective of the exams and the HW's aren't really it either. Barely and I mean barely like mostly 0 partial credit. Studying from the book is somewhat helpful. I don't recommend this course to my least liked person; especially if you've never taken physics before college. Wish he gave better q's for hard tests.

Although he is a well-meaning person who wanted students to do well, I found that I, and many of my peers, simply did not understand what he was trying to convey. I'd recommend taking Physics 152 if you have calc 1 credit

He does such an awful job of explaining things in class that you'll get more out of it if you skip class and just watch his videos or read the textbook instead. Every time he speaks he sound condescending. He also likes making life harder by not posting solutions or practice exams unless explicitly asked for.

Truly one of the professors of all time

Berland offers Midnight Sessions (at 10pm) because he's busy teaching adult fiddle classes right before. Students don't like the sessions, but he says we do. classmates stopped going because they're less than helpful and we shouldn't be expected to spend time with a professor that late at night, it's uncomfortable.

Berland isn't a great professor, at all. His lectures aren't very helpful and I learned far more just reading the textbook. Additionally, his exams are not reflective at all of the Webassign homework that we completed weekly. I'd recommend studying every single resource available to ensure your best chance of getting a good grade in the class.

Berland gives very minimal partial credit on exams, despite the difficulty of the content, his lectures not very helpful for actually understanding the material, does not seem very interested in actually teaching or assisting students, and got annoyed when students asked for extra problems to practice for an exam.

One of the worst professors I have taken at Emory. The content is challenging enough without his confusing, boring, rambling lectures and terrible ponytail. Exams are not representative of the homework assignments. I never missed lecture, always took notes and engaged, and still was better off reviewing later with Khan Academy.

Disclaimer: I do not course bcs the platform does not allow it. This professor was horrible and the most insensitive/two-faced man on the face of the earth. He literally had someone record him the first day while giving a pep talk to the class. Once the camera was off, his true colors came out. Told a girl having a panic attack: "That ain't fun".

Berland is the type of guy you think of when your friend says some people shouldn't be teachers. He's not kind, provides zero help during exams, talks to his students like they're five years old, responding to questions with phrases like "it should be pretty obvious". His "partial grading" is cruel. Emory is already tough, no need for this teacher.

Avoid taking this class. He is a horrible professor and this class will tank your gpa. Take it over the summer or another school.

Please save yourself! Take Segre over the summer, as berland is perhaps the most condescending and useless prof at Emory. Exams are magnitudes more difficult than anything he has every mentioned in class and he solves problems his "own" way, which are confusing and contradictory to conventional methods. truly a harrowing experience!

This man is the woest professor I have ever had at Emory. I asked a question at office hours, and he condescendingly said “that's or

very mean professor and not easy to follow in class.

Berland might be the worst experience of my academic career. This is going to be my first non-A class in college even after getting an A in 141. His lectures made no sense, his teaching methods were very unconventional, and his exams were 10X harder than anything we saw in class, or even the practice exams he gave out. Take this class in the summer

Graduating but Berland is the worst professor I have had at Emory. His lectures are not good, although maybe not the worst, but his condescension towards students as well as his inability to answer even simple questions is unrivaled. “I don't understand why you don't understand” was a catchphrase of his, would not recommend.

Least favorite professor taken so far. PHYS142 was definitely more interesting than 141 in terms of content, but my lord, this man's class shaved off at least 5 yrs of my lifespan. If I were to redo it again, I would def go to LA sessions and focus on the lecture content (not all of the textbook is relevant, tbh).

Horrible professor genuinely the worst i've taken at emory--did not explain the concepts, clearly does not "believe" in partial (even tho thats most of physics), and just no compassion for his students. If i can recommend one things, it's to not take his class--take phys 152, take over the summer, do whatever you need to to avoid this professor

Physics classes teaching math concepts students may not be familiar with should not be taught as a flipped classroom. Students are expected to teach self all content, lectures are going over bits and pieces of readings from previous week. The only reason I'm still taking this class is because it's major-required.