<p>" Like i mentioned he didn’t care. he favored his students who went to office hours, which in this case is discrimination, but of course unprovable."</p>
<p>Actually if you go to your professor’s office hours it demonstrates that you have an interest in the subject, and are putting in effort. And They will take that in mind when they are computing grades…</p>
<p>How are Davis classes 60-80% Asian when Asian students only make up 44% of the student body? Don’t throw out falsified statistics.</p>
<p>No good professor tests you on the exact material that s/he lectured on. That’s simply regurgitation or more aptly put- knowledge diarrhea. You’re supposed to learn, think, and synthesize new knowledge.</p>
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<p>Suck it up, this is what a real college class is supposed to be like. If you can’t handle it, then go to a vocational school.</p>
<p>“How are Davis classes 60-80% Asian when Asian students only make up 44% of the student body? Don’t throw out falsified statistics.” </p>
<p>It could be that the majority of the people who sign up for such classes are asian, 44% of the student body, doesn’t mean you will have 44 % asians in your classes.</p>
<p>Yeah, Art is Melodic is correct. I’ve had plenty of Bio & Chem classes be 80% asian easily.</p>
<p>Having said that, blanca, the teacher doesn’t sound great to me, especially if he wrote the book and still needs to curve to avoid failing his whole class. I think the best thing you can do is go to office hours if you don’t understand something and try to avoid this teacher in the future.</p>
<p>dmission and blanca…he didn’t write that awful book -_- I admit it was a bad book still though. I personally only skimmed it and took most of my learning from his lecture.</p>
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Didn’t know that, was just basing off of what was said above.</p>
<p>Sounds to me like you just weren’t ready for UC difficulty. I’ve had classes where over half the class gets an F and there’s no curve. Suck it up. It’s always possible to do well. </p>
<p>Plus LOL at you giving us the ratemyprofessor when most of his reviews are positive. Hell, I’d say he seems like a great teacher from those ratings. You clearly don’t have a good grasp of that site if you think it’s “evidence” because he doesn’t have a “5” in every category or something.</p>
<p>sucks for you.everyone have problems. i have my own you have yours. but dude… suck it up! its college. you’re supposed to be prepared for that.</p>
<p>but anyway, good luck with your request.</p>
<p>Well that’s the harsh reality of life after high school. You have to develop critical thinking skills, you have to be prepared for all the curveballs your employer (or professor) will throw at you, and you have to know how to toughen up and deal with all this.</p>
<p>Like some previous posters already mentioned, regurgitation of information is not the point of college.</p>
<p>I do agree that the reviews by students from the summer session aren’t too amazing. Also, his “easiness” rating is definitely very low. However, there do seem to be a few people earning B’s, so passing the class doesn’t seem impossible. Also, critical thinking is what you’re going to need in real life, so you can’t really complain about that. </p>
<p>If the majority of the class really did earn less than a 62% you might have a case. Good luck. I hope things work out.</p>
<p>Honestly, I can really empathize for blanca on this one. Some teachers are just terrible and aren’t conducive to certain students. We all have different learning styles, and maybe blanca’s style was tremendously different from the professor’s. I’ve had terrible teachers that couldn’t give a **** about the students, and frankly, it’s really horrible to know that and be as motivated as one would need to be in this type of class. All in all, I would definitely wish blanca the best of luck.</p>
<p>Blanca, I hope everything worked out for you in the end. :)</p>
<p>switch majors… I am doing environmental toxicology and I dropped Calc 1B with no complaints from UCD.</p>