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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR480 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/06/2025 |
Nice professor who actually cares about you and your performance in the class. You can get a good grade by showing up to class and doing the assigned work (which is not hard). The only con is the lectures. They are boring sometimes but he does post his slides after class. The mid semester project is not bad either you just have to do it (12 page paper). |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR480 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2024 |
One of the nicest people you will ever meet. Just show up to his class and you will learn a lot. Lectures can be a bit boring sometimes, but thats life. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/15/2024 |
Had a great time in his class. I felt he did a pretty good job of explaining some pretty complicated material. Homeworks were a bit difficult, but definitely nothing impossible and the exams were pretty fair and not too difficult. Enjoyed the class, professor was a funny guy and I felt like I learned a lot. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/20/2024 |
Took this class because I thought the final exam would be replaced with a final paper, but that is no longer the case (this is my personal mistake so not basing my rating off of this). As a person: nice guy, seems funny, willing to help students where applicable.. As a prof: Exams are difficult given the amount of information there is (somewhere around 600 detailed slides). It doesn't help that the lectures are not necessarily engaging-- monotone voice, a lot of math/physics, just boring. Homework can be difficult, but they do alternate between easy and difficult every week, which helps bring your homework grade up. Content is pretty interesting but drowned out by the amount of math needed, but I could be an exception (i dont like math). |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/18/2024 |
Nice professor. Homework assignments were easy enough with half of them being reviews and comments on related topics and the other half being actual math. Lectures were honestly really dense and dull even though he tried to make it interesting. Powerpoints were averaging 70 slides. Attendance wasnt required but would be useful in order to do decent on exam. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Anonymous 05/17/2024 |
Very nice guy, but lectures are pretty boring. We had a homework pretty much every week which would alternate from watching videos and commenting on them and doing math/physics problems, but they weren't that bad overall. He has way too much information on the slides, but he has a "recap" slide for every lecture and you only really need to know those to do well on the midterm and final. Midterm and final were pretty easy, he gave a lot of questions, but only made you do a certain number of them (you could pick which ones), which was super helpful if you weren't as confident in something. This class was also a lot more physics heavy than other astronomy classes I've taken, which I didn't really mind because I thought the material was interesting, but if you're looking for a DSNS elective, just be aware that this class has a lot of math. Overall, I'd say to only take this class if you have an interest in black holes/astronomy, otherwise the class may be pretty difficult and dull. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 03/30/2024 |
Lectures can be boring and most of the information he teaches you do not need to know. Homework can be somewhat easy but the midterm was difficult. He also does not offer the option anymore to write a paper for the final it is only an exam format. Definitely one of the harder electives to take. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/20/2021 |
Lectures were a little dry but homework was easy and manageable. The midterm wasn't that bad, and this man gave us an option between a final paper and final exam. Need I say more? If you have the chance, take him. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/01/2021 |
Lectures might not be it but he is really smart in his field. Makes assignments interesting and easy. He doesn't make assignments unnecessarily hard. Gave option between final paper on any topic related to black hole or an exam. Our class chose to write a paper. Overall I liked him a lot. |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR350 Anonymous 04/16/2021 |
One of the nicest professors out there. He's so accommodating and all his assignments were easy and manageable. How many professors are there that their students if they want a final exam or final paper? |
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Richard Mushotzky
ASTR380 Expecting a B- Anonymous 10/12/2020 |
Very boring, lecture tend to drone on and his slides have way more information than you would need |