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Clarke Safsten
MATH140H Expecting an A Anonymous 01/26/2024 |
Safsten is a pretty good professor. He wants his students to succeed and will put time into talking out a problem with you during office hours. He may seem a little hard at first but is pretty nice when grading and almost never takes full points off unless the approach for the question was completely off. |
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Clarke Safsten
MATH140H Expecting an A Anonymous 12/26/2023 |
I highly recommend taking Prof. Safsten for any math course. He was generous, kind, funny, and always smiled throughout the semester. He is very understanding when it comes to missing the online homework assignments; he will grant extensions simply asking him. Additionally, Prof. Safsten explained the fundamental contents of Calculus I thoroughly. He teaches the class following the assigned chapters in the textbook. You can find the schedule of chapters in the syllabus he provides. Since this was an H-course, there were some topics that the course skipped over, however, these topics were not covered in the Final, so no need to fret. All four midterms consisted of topics covered in class using the required textbook. He was a gracious grader; you can expect little points to be taken off if there were any algebraic errors leading to your final answer. In addition, you can challenge any grade you believe is unfair or miscalculated. The quizzes that Prof. Safsten would hand out were completely fair. They usually consist of two questions that require no more than 10 minutes. The quizzes usually cover the topics covered for that week. He automatically drops the lowest grade on one of these quizzes for your calculated grade. One thing that I was not a fan of throughout the course was the graded discussion sheets. Prof. Safsten does not grade these discussion sheets as he hands them off to a TA to be graded. I was not aware of who the TA was, but there were instances where the TA would remove up to 1 or 2 points out of a 10-point worksheet. You can probably ask him to regrade the worksheets. Excellent teacher. I highly recommend Prof. Safsten for students seeking out a generous teacher in the math department. |
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Clarke Safsten
Anonymous 12/21/2023 |
Professor Safsten was an excellent calc 140 instructor who not only made the material easily digestible, but also incorporated real life applications and explanations. He also grades pretty forgiving and his tests are very reasonable. |