Shane Collins

This professor has taught: CHEM135

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Shane Collins CHEM135 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2024	Overall he's pretty good. During lecture, he's receptive to questions and answers them thoroughly. During discussion, he's also helpful and although putting more effort into doing the activities in discussion means you'll get more out of it, I feel like just showing up to discussion would still help because he goes over things well and makes them make sense, or at the very least, it would highlight things that are good to know for the next exam. However he is unresponsive to emails, and I feel like he oftentimes just makes an announcement on canvas or at the start of class addressing things he gets asked by people a lot instead of responding to emails. Him being hard to reach was kind of annoying throughout the semester. Also he didn't give any study material specifically for the final exam, (like for example a practice final exam) but there was some for the other exams.
Shane Collins CHEM135 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2024	Shane Collins is a pretty decent professor, which is good due to how much content there is in CHEM135. He goes over the content quite quickly but does explain things pretty well, which made going to lecture feel worth it. His discussion class is also pretty good, as he does over specific practice problems that we don't tend to go over in lecture. The grade is mostly made up of tests, so you will need to do good on those tests to get a good grade. His tests are fairly easy though as long as you understand everything he goes over, it's very rare that his tests will have a curveball. What I will say is it was rather hard to reach him, with him not responding to emails and having very poor timing for office hours. But in terms of being a lecturer he's a decent pick.
Shane Collins Anonymous 12/13/2024	He’s okay overall, but he mostly just reads off the slides during lectures, which didn’t provide much value for me. Additionally, he’s not very responsive to emails. That said, he did his job adequately, so I don’t have major complaints."
Shane Collins CHEM135 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/10/2024	I think he is a good professor for such a hard topic and crammed into such a small time, but he kind of reads off of the slides like he is seing them for the first time on the lectures, but his discussions is where he shines. He is very good in discussion and talks like he knows the content on the back of his hand.
Shane Collins CHEM135 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/04/2024	Probably the best professor I've had so far. As long as you keep up with the content learned in lectures and the textbook, 135 is a pretty easy course. Collins is also really good at discussion. For an intro chem course, I would definitely recommend him.