Sean is a really nice guy but the way his class is taught through POGIL is hot garbage. You basically have to teach yourself. Worst class ever.

Hes the worst professor ever. He doesn't teach a single thing. He uses POGIL style which is where you basically get assigned a team and you guys have to figure out the lecture by yourself. I wouldn't recommend this class to anyone at all do not pick this professor.

Honestly one of the worst profs ive had. Doesnt teach AT ALL. Awful awful awful teacher. Doesnt even try to teach, just assumes you already know the material

POGIL is awful. Unless you are already a chemistry genius don't take this professor. He assumes everyone has a good knowledge of chemistry I see people in other classes with different profs succeeding vastly more than under this prof. Seems like a nice guy, but jeez is he the worst prof/teacher I've had in my life. I highly suggest another pro f.

Honestly one of the WORST professors/teachers Ive had. If you are premed and you havent taken a chem class in over a year DO NOT take this class unless you are willing to spend 6+ hours EVERYDAY doing doing work for this class. Both Sean and his RAs not willing to help (in my experience). If you do take his class, PLEASE dont take Bio with it

SGR is certainly knowledgeable about chemistry but expects you to know everything about it because he barely lectures for 10 minutes in class and won't even answer questions in class. I relied on my TA to teach me stuff. He literally told us on the first day if we wanted to be taught how to do this stuff we should watch Khan Academy or Youtube.

Sean begins every class by lecturing for 5-10 minutes and then puts all students into assigned breakout rooms. EVERY class. You have to teach yourself in this class-- even while paying attention to his short lectures, it is very confusing because he goes over selective questions and it is disorganized. HE DOES NOT TEACH!

This class was so hard for me. He assumed we knew all the basics, and while I had taken honors chemistry in high school, I was not prepared for this class. He put us into breakout rooms every single class and made us work on POGILs. This was not efficient for me, and I felt like I wasn't learning anything. I ended up getting a tutor.

This class was the biggest waste of my time. DO NOT TAKE THIS TEACHER. I REPEAT DO NOT TAKE THIS TEACHER. You will end up teaching everything to your self; Sean does not teach a stitch of chemistry. You teach yourself. Do yourself a favor and do not take Sean. You have to learn POGIL style which you teach yourself with a book.

Please dont take his class! Everything is POGIL and you will end up having to learn everything yourself. Going to his lectures have been the biggest waste of my time. He does not teach anything. Unless your willing to study chemistry for 5 hours a day yourself good luck, I find my physics class a lot more enjoyable and doable than Seans class.

Sean should definitely be a last resort option. You teach yourself everything in the class. Sean does not deserve the credit and the rating he has as far as I am concerned. Avoid him at all costs unless you are confident u can learn everything in ap chemistry by yourself.

Everything is rushed. I havent learned one thing from Sean; Ive learned everything by myself. Out of everyone I know taking chemistry, Sean is the worst. Wouldnt recommend him to anyone. Spend everyday studying and studying for his class. Everyone of my friends in his class think says lectures are the biggest waste of their time.

Every class is a group project. if you get a bad group youre screwed for this class. wouldnt reccomend this teacher. He doesnt teach for the life of him. Lectures are entirely up to you. The quizzes are easy and the 4 midterms are extremely difficult. Sean assumes that you know everything about chemistry (like the basics).

Sean is a funny guy and all. But he does not teach. The homeworks and the quizzes do not prepare you for the midterm. The midterms are very hard. If you dont know a lot about chemistry or its ur first time taking chemistry dont take his class. Do ur self a favor.

Sean is the limiting reagent of my life. The tests are extremely difficult and he doesn't lecture at all. The textbook is the only thing that keeps me going. TAs can be helpful but that's not enough. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! Every other professor is better I promise you.

Don't let the ratings fool you, Sean is so nice but that does not translate to good grades. Sean does not teach a single thing, and may as well not be a professor. In order to pass I have taught myself everything from the textbook and had to schedule tutoring on my own time. Please save yourself and do not take this class it is a waste.

In this class, my beaker is half-empty. Please avoid this class at all costs. This has ruined this semester for me, It has forced me to do so much work on my own it might as well be a full time job. He should be a therapist because he is so nice, he just should never teach another day of his life, oh wait he doesn't teach. NEVER TAKE THIS CLASS

Not recommended for online. Weekly quiz/midterm, mostly multiple-choice (no partial credit); no backtracking allowed on assessments. He doesn't lecture, instead using POGIL, which is like DIY learning. We tried asking for lectures, but he said POGIL is better. We don't even get answer keys after, so there's no way of knowing if we got it right.

Absolutely the worst

Avoid if you can unless youre already really good at chem. I went to his office hours and cried like every week only for him to be barley any help. Hes a nice guy but is an awful professor, especially during a pandemic. I hated my life and barely passed despite studying very efficiently and often for the class and bio. Lowered grades last minute

doesnt teach nuff said

Awful, didnt even teach. One of the worst profs ive had at Pitt. Will not even open emails from students, and was very clear about that. Like he says i wont open your emails at the beginning of the semester. Doesnt teach anything, and is incredibly hard to find outside or even inside class.

ONLY TAKE IF YOU HAVE TAKEN AP CHEM BEFORE. Lecture not mandatory and useless. Does not lecture, puts you in groups and gives you problems irrelevant to quizzes/tests. Midterms are 10 Qs and 1 wrong is 1 % off of your grade. If you already know the material well, take him bc minimum work, no need to show up to class, but if you don't you will fail

Sean is a good guy and really cares about students learning, but he just does it wrong. He only teaches with POGILs, which if you've never had a POGIL class it basically means you have to teach yourself then ask questions. Everyone learn new material by doing a worksheet in a small group. Don't take his class but if you have too read before class.

He used the POGIL methods for his classes, making lectures absolutely useless. He did not teach at all and offers no partial credit on exams. He also does not respond to emails. The class is an easy A if you're good at chem or have prior experience with it, but it will be very difficult if not. YouTube ended up teaching me everything for exams.

I do not recommend taking Sean at all. He does not lecture in class and we did worksheets every period to learn the new information. He gives 4 point weekly quizzes that are very hard to understand. Nice and caring man, but makes learning Chemistry hard.

His class is hell. He does not lecture at all and makes you learn by POGIL worksheets which do not explain the concepts of chem. His weekly quizzes are nothing like the class material, and the homework is about apply information that is not taught in class. He is not helpful in office hours and when you have a question he says "ask your peers." NO

He doesn't have lectures and only uses the POGIL technique. You are supposed to work through these with a group, but its very difficult if no one knows what's going on and if your group stops showing up to classes. He gives weekly 4 question quizzes which are very confusing and hard to get a decent grade on.

He uses the POGIL method so get ready to teach yourself. He cares about his students if you go to office hours and he is very smart, but teaches like we already know everything. Avoid him if you like to have notes or have someone actually teach you. There are no actual tests, just weekly quizzes of 4 questions, Packback, and Achieve assignments.

Here's the course layout: no lectures, only POGILs which give a basic understanding but fail to mention critical details. The only way to get info is by reading the textbook religiously. Grades rely solely on 4-point quizzes which are designed so that most students get 2/4 every week. He wants you to fail. Finals weeks included 4 separate tests

Heres the thing about his CHEM 0110, I relied HEAVILY on my AP chem knowledge from high school. His class consists of Pogils which are basically in class assignments and practice that usually end up making the topic harder to understand in the first place. 4 question weekly tests that are retake-able but are mostly set for you to get a 2/4 on each

Does not lecture. The course is structured through POGIL. POGIL activities do not prepare you for quizzes. The fourth question on the weekly quiz is always difficult and the POGILs do not create a deep enough level of understanding to get the point. Sean relies very heavily on TAs/ UTAs to teach students but they can only do so much. DO NOT TAKE!!!

Professor Garret-Roe structures his lectures in a flipped style, where you basically teach yourself the content outside of class and complete group POGIL assignments during class time. This method did not work for me. Was understanding when personal problems arise and was flexible.

Do not take him, he doesn't teach and his quizzes aren't even based off the POGILS he uses. The way the class is set up is bound to make students fail. He doesn't respond to emails and makes his TAs go through hell too. I would give him a 0 if I could

If you like being lectured do not enroll in this class. He does not teach the material instead just puts you in groups in class to figure it out yourself. The weekly quizzes are only 4 questions and he expects you to get barely get 2 right. Do not take.

DONT DO IT. This class uses the POGIL system and to say the least, its terrible. The system gives you papers you do in class with your "groups" and you have to teach yourself the topics and never truly know if what you determined is correct. There is also a decent amount of assignments each week so reading the book isn't very practical for time.

Bad professor for a general chemistry course. He used the POGIL method which basically means that you tech yourself the material. This class is not worth the stress and frustration. Take another professor!!

He is a terrible teacher and should not even be called a teacher because he will not teach you anything. He will have you do worksheets all class and make the TAs answer all your questions, and half the time the TAs don't know the answer. He will treat you guys like toddlers and is just a bad teacher. He will make you want to quit school.

He gives you a packet and expects you to learn the topics from this. He never lectures and thinks his bs "POGIL" learning is helping you. Weekly quizzes out of 4 where it is nearly impossible to get 100% on, even the TAs don't know how to help, nor do they agree with what he says. weekly ALEKS homework that takes genuinely 5 hours at least.

He gives you a packet and expects you to learn fthe topics from this. He never lectures and thinks his dumb "POGIL" learning will help you. Weekly quizzes out of 4 that are literally impossible to get 100% on. Even the TAs dont know what theyre helping you with, nor do they agree with what he says. Weekly ALEKS homework that takes genuinely 5 hrs

Even if you understand Gen Chem 1, the weekly quizzes are almost impossible to score a 4/4 on, and they're a big part of your total grade. It's not as much about knowing and learning the concepts taught but learning how to take these specific tests. If you know Chemistry well or have taken AP Chem you will still do bad.

He refuses to lecture and demands that students teach themselves the material. In class, he breaks students into 4 people per group in chevron lecture hall, so 350 people are screaming over one another trying to figure out chem. He hands out a packet at the beginning of the class and expects students to teach themselves via the packet.

If you want to take understand chem in order to take chem 2, do not take this professor. He does the "POGIL" method, which is where you do the work by yourself and he just gives you the answers later. He also gives assigned seats in the lecture like we are not all 18+ years old. Literally doesn't teach. By far the worst professor I have had so far.

dog this aint it. he doesn't lecture, and only does pogils. also his homework is wack. this aleks stuff is a week or so ahead of what we learn, and the quizzes come two weeks after we learn what we do in class. the curve makes u feel better abt urself, but it doesn't mean anything bc u still hate it anyways. i cannot stress enough... stay away!!!

There are no lectures, and the packets you complete as a group do not give you a solid understanding of the material. The weekly quizzes are not straight-forward at all, and it is expected that students get a 2/4. I spent a ton of time learning the material outside of class, and it was still extremely hard for me to succeed. I do not recommend.

This class is extremely difficult and very hard to pass. I have gone to his office hours specifically as well as exhausted every single study resource Pitt offers (Co-Lab, Study Lab, Office Hours, etc) and I could not improve my grade at all. Pogil learning is very confusing and I do not recommend this course unless you already know chemistry.

if you have any other options for professors take them. everything is done through a POGIL system that makes it so difficult to actually retain any of the information. lectures are unneeded group work and he will hover over you for an uncomfortable amount of time just watching and you can hear him breathe. skipping lectures is a better use of time.

His lectures are a waste of time because he does not teach and ig he thinks he does. Gives four-question quizzes once a week that the averages are usually 1.17 (each quiz is worth 3.85% of your total grade). The materials we are quizzed on do not correspond to lecture, and if you're lucky your TA might teach during recitation. Complete the ALEKS!!!

This entire course was beyond stressful. ALEKS took over 7 hrs each week. UTAs would give me the wrong answer during lecture. POGIL makes no sense, and SGR refuses to teach or help you. Impossible weekly quizzes that are 4 open response questions with no partial credit. I only passed because of colab, study lab, and balcony tutoring. Good luck

He does POGIL and teaches nothing. Incredibly difficult to fail, I averaged a 2 on the quizzes, got a 91 in lab, completed all the ALEKS on time and did the tophat during class and finished with a 71% which averaged to a B in his class. I put in hardly any work and Im satisfied with my grade. I did take AP Chem in highschool which helped also

Sean is a nice, smart guy, but man is his class structure dumb. He has you go the "discovery" route where we did POGIL in class before he lectured what we did in maybe 5 min. ALEKS HW was doable but not applicable to quizzes. Aim for a 3/4 on quizzes, but a 4 is near impossible. Class is more doable than people saw tho, it's only quizzes no tests.

If general chemistry 1 is a weed-out course, then professor Garrett-Roe is a gardener. He uses a teaching method referred to as "POGIL" for the course. With POGIL, he gives you a worksheet you have to figure out each class with others, so you basically teach yourself. There is a quiz each week on the material you just taught yourself :). go to TAs.

This extraterrestrial believes in the "POGIL" experience. You basically end up learning absolutely nothing and walk into Chem 2 set for failure. He has a completely made up testing system that makes no sense and it forces him to put a massive curve on the entire class or everyone would be failing. Makes no sense, he is a constant trigger.

The entire class is done through POGIL, which is basically a worksheet that you have to complete. Even worse, you have to do it with a group of strangers. About half the people attended the lectures. The quizzes are every week (with retakes) end up being worth 55% of your grade, but are almost impossible to get a 4/4 on.

Do everything you can to avoid this professor if you want to actually learn anything in Chemistry 1. He doesn't teach during the lectures, instead he gives you a worksheet to figure out. He seems enthusiastic, but that does not make up for his lack of teaching. Pretty easy to pass the class, but you won't learn anything.

I am doing well in this class and I would still recommend literally anyone but him. Most of the grade is based on 4 question quizzes. The entire "lecture" is just a worksheet (POGIL) that you figure out during class with your learning group. All of the content is put in these paragraphs before the problems which reading in groups is impossible.

Actually terrible. If it's possible to take a different professor, please do. His lectures consisted of you sitting there working through problems with almost no guidance, there are no tests but the quizzes are difficult to get above a 75%, if that. If you just want to pass chem, I would take him, but if you want to learn anything, avoid!!

As kind as prof. Sean is, I can't say his class is great. He teaches through a workbook with very little lecture. You are just thrown into the material and expected to learn it yourself through his workbook. He doesn't believe in tests so you have weekly 4 question quizzes with a fourth question that is notably impossible to get. ALEKS hw weekly.

Sean genuinely cares about his students and is extremely passionate. However, his charisma doesn't translate into his teaching style. POGIL and ALEKs were counterintuitive to my prior extensive knowledge of chemistry and were a waste of time inside and outside of lecture. Quizzes were fair, but heavily weighted and almost impossible to get a 4/4.

Grade is almost entirely made up of 4 question quizzes where the class averages a 1. There is an insane curve so it's easy to pass the class, however it's difficult to actually learn and do well. The TA's provided little to no help. The majority of students sit in class doing nothing because he assigns questions without teaching any material first.

HE DOES NOT TEACH. All you do is do questions in a workbook and then do aleks. The work never lines up with recitation. Also the lecture does not line you up with homework. Then you have to learn a whole lecture by yourself because the only thing he explains is the workbook questions

Sean Garrett Hoe is THE worst professor ever. This creature doesn't teach you anything and your whole grade is based on weekly quizzes that are out of 4. He teaches in "pogil", whatever that even means, but he just makes easy things so complicated so you will know nothing. Every time I hiked up to Chevron a tear came down my face.

Sean Garrett-Roe is awful!!! Lectures are boring and he uses the POGIL method. You spend class doing textbook problems in the book he authored so he makes money from us. Your grade is based on the weekly quizzes and the average is 1/4. Lots of ALEKS homework that doesn't line up with classwork. Recitations aren't helpful. Class was a waste of time.

flipped classroom using pogils and aleks. in his recs, there were weekly assessments with odd questions that basically made up your whole grade since he didnt really assign anything else. didnt teach at ALL, so i had nothing to study with and didnt know what to expect on the assessments which was the most difficult part. super enthusiastic though!

Do NOT take this professor. His lectures don't even correspond to the weekly quizzes you take (which make up most of your grade). You also have to do Aleks and he's not lenient about it at all. If you're not coming in with prior chem experience then ... good luck.

Sean used POGIL and Aleks, so lecture time consisted of working in small groups to learn the material on your own, then complete hours of online homework. It was not ideal, and because I didn't go in with prior chemistry knowledge, I failed. Would NOT recommend.

DO NOT TAKE AT ALL COST. He does not teach in class and makes students do pogil in class, which is basically just teaching yourself the material. He acted like he cared about his students, but did not really care to take the time to teach the material. There were weekly quizzes, which did not reflect content from class and were difficult.

Don't take him or Tricia. Lectures consist of doing questions from a workbook you have to buy. He doesn't teach, you basically have to teach yourself. No tests, but each week there's a 4-question quiz; the last question is meant to be very hard. He has a very high curve, so it's easy to pass, but you don't learn anything. Our TAs weren't helpful.

this man is so evil. hate him n his ponytail. i took this last semester and his pogil method set me up for failure. idk anything from chem 1. did not teach. recitation quizzes were EVIL and mean and were the reason my grade was bad. evil evil man. he is nice outside of class but puts the evil in devil inside of class. juicy curve tho (he needed it)

Genuinely worst professor I have ever had.

appears to come off nice yet he fails to give the resources for success. He says pogil method is the best way to learn, but any educator should know that you cannot generalize one teaching style to every student. You teach yourself everything. This class hinder with my confidence and gave me great anxiety. can't wait to not see him ever again.

hate hate HATED his class. "flipped learning classroom" he uses that as an excuse to not teach a single thing. no notes or lecture slides are provided you are given nothing to study for the exams and quizzes. he praises his teaching style but it sets you up for failure

He uses a "POGIL" style teaching method which almost everyone, including myself, hated. The entire course is essentially you teaching yourself. There are no exams other than the final, and the lengthy homework will NOT prepare you for the quizzes. I would not have passed without the amazing TAs working overtime to teach us in recitation/lab.

Makes you buy a book he wrote to do the stupidest practice problems that really don't apply to actual chem material. Weekly 4 question quizzes and he brags about how less than 1% of people get a 4/4. You probably won't fail but it's annoying to do so poorly so early in college.

DONT TAKE HIM!!! He never finishes a lecture and the textbook does not help at all. The lectures are very rushed and he basically makes you learn every topic on your own. He also tries to be funny and it never works.

The fact that very few people can get 100% on the quizzes is an absolute joke. You are supposed to test on things that were taught, not completely different questions that require a different train of thought. It's an outrage that my future is determined by this and I seriously question the fact that I am paying for this. Save yourself the trouble.

So bad, do not take. Left class knowing less chemistry than going into the class. HORRIBLE

might be the worst chem professor oat. Him and Shepherd use Aleks and POGIL. Aleks is the most bs thing I've ever done in my entire life. He does not teach jack. If you want a good grade you gotta teach urself chem1. If you are taking chem, never take him or Shepard. And also the school should fire the whole chemistry department.

Might be the worst prof at Pitt. Everyone keeps saying he's caring, but all I see is a guy who couldn't care less about anyone's future. Got an A cuz I grinded, could've gone to 0 lectures and still ended up with the same grade. Horrible lecturer, POGIL ineffective, ignores emails at times. Do surveys for EC, quizzes are not hard, but dont take him