CHEM 3
Material World
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Focus on most important advances made by humans in developing new molecules and materials, and how these discoveries affect our everyday life. These include development of paints, plastics, metals, fuels, drugs, energetic materials, radioactive substances, poisons, vaccines, and many more. Connections between interplay of science, history, arts, and socioeconomic factors driving technological development. Discussion emphasizes projected future of these emerging technologies. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2020 - Prof. Roshini is the sweetest professor I've ever encountered. She cares more that her students have a positive experience with chemistry and are engaged rather than strict grading. If you get anything below an A in this class I would honestly be impressed because of how hard that would be to do. This is easily the simplest GE I've ever taken. All the content is very interesting, but honestly the lack of examinations gave me little motivation to give this class much effort. You can get the textbook for free online, but you really don't need it.
Fall 2020 - Prof. Roshini is the sweetest professor I've ever encountered. She cares more that her students have a positive experience with chemistry and are engaged rather than strict grading. If you get anything below an A in this class I would honestly be impressed because of how hard that would be to do. This is easily the simplest GE I've ever taken. All the content is very interesting, but honestly the lack of examinations gave me little motivation to give this class much effort. You can get the textbook for free online, but you really don't need it.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2018 - I really enjoyed this class. I’m a Spanish Major and just took this class because I needed extra units. The class consists of a midterm, a final, and a Wikipedia project. It’s not an extremely difficult course but you need to pay attention in class because there is no text book or extra materials, so the exams are based off of what he says in lecture. He provides a print-out of the PowerPoint so you can take notes. He also replaces the midterm with the final if you did not do too well, which is nice. He’s really passionate about his work and he makes classes interactive. He also requires you to attend office hours to elaborate on the Wikipedia project, which was helpful. I learned a lot of interesting facts throughout the course. He mostly cares that his students learn. He doesn’t make his exams hard, he just wants to make sure that you are learning the concepts of the course. I think this is probably one of my favorite class I’ve taken at UCLA, coming from a north campus major.
Fall 2018 - I really enjoyed this class. I’m a Spanish Major and just took this class because I needed extra units. The class consists of a midterm, a final, and a Wikipedia project. It’s not an extremely difficult course but you need to pay attention in class because there is no text book or extra materials, so the exams are based off of what he says in lecture. He provides a print-out of the PowerPoint so you can take notes. He also replaces the midterm with the final if you did not do too well, which is nice. He’s really passionate about his work and he makes classes interactive. He also requires you to attend office hours to elaborate on the Wikipedia project, which was helpful. I learned a lot of interesting facts throughout the course. He mostly cares that his students learn. He doesn’t make his exams hard, he just wants to make sure that you are learning the concepts of the course. I think this is probably one of my favorite class I’ve taken at UCLA, coming from a north campus major.
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