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Rodrigo Trevino MATH452 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/17/2022	Dynamics and Chaos is his area of research, so he really knowledgeable in the material. The class is really small and I feel like that caters well towards his teaching style. There is 1 group work every other class that is graded for effort and completion and homeworks are graded leniently. The first exam was also very fair. His lectures are clear and organized but nothing amazing. He's an overall solid professor and I would take him again.
Denny Gulick MATH452 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/01/2011	I did not feel like I was treated as I have come to expect in a 400-level math class. I understand that all instructors hope their students attend lecture and pay close attention at all times, but I am well-studied in the course content and often the lecture covered material with which I was already familiar. Dr. Gulick assigned homework in almost every lecture period due for the next class and held pop quizzes that ensured that students needed to attend class regardless of the personal value of the lecture, because their attendance was effectively enforced by the grading scheme. Additionally, whereas many professors do not raise objections to me sleeping or text messaging in their classes and leave such decisions to me as my responsibility (which seems reasonable at the 400-level), Dr. Gulick interrupted class to chastise me for using my phone and threatened to disbar me from the classroom if I used it again. He later explained that using my phone was distracting to other students, but I feel the interruption of class that Dr. Gulick chose was ultimately more distracting and took more class time than any of my phone use would have. Similar interruptions and stalls took place daily as Dr. Gulick would ask the class and wait for answers to trivial questions such as simple arithmetic or even a response to "Good morning". I just did not feel the demeanor of the instructor was well-matched to the level of the course and seemed better suited to introductory courses where students are not electing to study an advanced topic.