Christian Zickert

This professor has taught: HLTH710, MATH246, MATH246H, MATH402, MATH403, MATH404, MATH406, MATH432, MATH730, MATH734, MATH848E, MATH848T, MATH848Z, STAT410, SURV410

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Christian Zickert MATH403 Expecting a P Anonymous 10/09/2023	Homework is basically useless, like doing addition on a Calculus class you don't learn anything. Due to that exams feel random in the questions. His examples are weird and unintuitive, which doesn't help considering you don't really practice on them. Blazes through things and with his appalling writing if you take extensive notes the class is gonna be awful. Could probably be a good class if he gave relevant homework allowing you to understand what areas are lacking, what ideas are more important instead of making students wing it.
Christian Zickert MATH403 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/11/2023	Honest to god I think he is not a great professor. It's clear he's passionate, but he assumes you know the material and read the book before his lectures. It's frequent that he makes mistakes, it doesn't teach you everything in a reasonable manner, and he is very fast. If you're already knowledgeable, you will find his classes simple and you will find it easy to build rapport with him. In that sense, he might be the BEST professor to go for. On the other hand, if you are like me - dumb but wanting to learn - you'll struggle.
Christian Zickert MATH403 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/04/2023	Zickert is definitely passionate about math, as everyone else has already stated. With that said, I genuinely feel like this professor's lectures are a bit hard to understand. It feels very difficult to get a good grade without putting an unreasonable amount of effort. Would recommend taking another professor if your GPA is a concern, he grades pretty darn harsh and his midterms are quite difficult (although, in all fairness, the class itself is pretty tough so it might be my skill issue speaking).
Christian Zickert MATH403 Anonymous 11/08/2022	You can tell Zickert is extremely passionate about math and he will elegantly field any question asked during a lecture or office hours. That being said, his handwriting is pretty bad and his lectures are usually (not always) just a worse presentation of the corresponding sections in the book. Zickert is one of those professors that think difficult concepts are trivial and doesn't often try to engage students with the material. In my experience, he's a pretty harsh grader and will take a lot of points off for tiny mistakes. I wouldn't say Zickert is a bad professor, but he's not a great one. Would definitely recommend trying another professor, but you'll be okay if Zickert is the only choice you have. My recommendation would be to read ahead in the books and take notes beforehand, using his lecture only as a supplement.
Christian Zickert MATH432 Anonymous 01/23/2022	He's great!! Lectures were entertaining and he's quite passionate about math. The class isn't easy but honestly the exams were very fair and never had crazy proofs or anything like that. Awesome class, nice prof, highly recommend if you're interested in this sort of material.
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting a C Anonymous 01/23/2022	Professor Zickert's MATH246H was a nightmare class. He's one of those professors that's too smart for his own good. His tests are much harder than you would expect given his homework and quizzes. But, in spite of the difficulty, he is a nice person and will give you help and credit if you show effort and improve.
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2021	makes the class wayyyy harder than it needs to be. handwriting is pretty bad and he assumes the students know much more than they actually should. MATLAB projects are just busy work and take an insane amount of time. exams are also very challenging and nothing like the examples he goes over in class. that being said, i still got an A but I had to put in a lot of work
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting a C- Anonymous 10/25/2021	Zickerts teaching style just did not work for me and it might not work for you. You know what kind of class it’s gonna be when, on the first day, the professor goes straight into the content. He has terrible writing and his classes consist of him lecturing about theory without many worked out examples. I also found that the midterms were much harder than the homework he assigns and the matlabs are nothing more than busy work for an extra assignment in the grade book. Lastly, the content that he said will be covered in class on the syllabus did not match with what he taught and was on the exams. With all that being said, he is very smart and passionate about math. However, I would not recommend this professor if you aren’t a math protege and want a good grade.
Christian Zickert MATH404 Anonymous 02/11/2021	I'm really surprised by how many positive reviews there are for this professor. His lectures are a worse presentation of the chapter of the textbook, and his terrible handwriting makes course notes useless. He doesn't seem well prepared for class and often rambles on during proofs, presenting things with little structure. Very disappointed and wish I didn't take this course.
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting an A Anonymous 08/17/2019	Great professor, he really enjoys teaching the material and tries to pass on his love of math to the students. The material is hard but he teaches it well.
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting an A+ StardustGogeta 06/09/2019	Professor Zickert is fantastic. He is able to answer any and all questions you have about the material and is clearly extremely passionate about mathematics. He is friendly and hilarious, and it is impossible not to love his class. (Be warned, his handwriting might take some getting used to.)
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting an A Anonymous 04/05/2019	Took this with him last semester. Really nice guy with very fair exams, he provided a past exam for each of the 3 exams to study from. Solid lecturer and was always willing to answer questions during class. Prepared you well for final exam.
Christian Zickert MATH246H Expecting a B lilym 12/15/2018	The MATLABs for this course are actually impossible, but Zickert is a very passionate professor and you can tell he loves math. He goes pretty fast in lectures but will openly answer any questions you have in office hours. He also teaches straight from the online book which makes going back over the notes a breeze. (the online book is basically a compilation of PDFs and practice problems) Make sure to do the best you can on quizzes and other graded assignments throughout the course because the Midterms are killer. As long as you study and keep up with the material, you should earn an A or B.
Christian Zickert MATH734 Anonymous 12/13/2018	Great professor