Eric Urban

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS going to lectures is a WASTE of time he has a thick french? european? accent and his handwriting is awful so you never know what's going on he doesn't communicate with TA's, so they never know what's going to be on the exams, he doesn't communicate with students, we had to beg him to tell us which chapters would be covered on which exams nothing he teaches correlates to the exams, i think it's because he doesn't make them himself unhelpful, unhelpful, unhelpful

I actually recommend this section if you have to take Calc III. Yes, Prof. Urban has many teaching flaws. But for the math department, he's actually not half bad. He's relatively slow (could be a positive or negative depending on your own math abilities). A lot of times he reads straight out of the book. He has a heavy French accent (you get used to it pretty quickly). He never checks his email (big piss off). On the other hand, he's a really nice guy and will answer any questions you ask. He's pretty laid back and the class was relatively easy. The class itself I found to be a very easy A (I am pretty good at math though, so take that for what it's worth). Most of the other students in the class were econ majors who suck at math but needed Calc III, so that helped the curve. His test questions are all the most basic forms of the problems we go over during class. He dumbs it down big time. The problems on the WebAssign are way harder than the test problems. Don't even bother studying those. (On the second midterm, for example, there were two questions that were variations of, If you have points A, B, and C, what is a plane that contains them all? Could not be simpler.) If you take this class, this is what I recommend doing: set aside 20 minutes before each class and learn most of it beforehand. If you don't, you will sometimes find yourself completely lost and he doesn't repea…

I must admit, at first I only ended up in Eric Urban's class because all of the other Calc IV teacher's classes were full, and after reading some of CULPA's reviews I sincerely went in expecting the worst. However, Urban is actually simply a mediocre professor. He is intelligent and he follows the book fairly strictly (even so far as using the same examples sometimes). He seems like a nice individual, and I have gone to a couple office hours and he was friendly and was willing to work through some problems on the chalk board. His homework is not very long takes maybe a couple of hours to do in total and is from the textbook, and for every homework assignment he hands out homework solutions which were helpful. For the midterms, he bases the questions off of homework questions(he does not give the class averages but he told me them during office hours and when asked). He also gives practice midterms, goes through them in class, and then hands out typed well-written solutions. Also, as mentioned in a previous review, he does not use Courseworks very well, meaning it is imperative that you go to class so that 1) you don't miss homework assignnments and 2) you don't miss any handouts that he gives in class (i.e. homework solutions, practice midterms, graded homeworks). I received an A in this class, having gone to around 75% of the classes, but always doing the homework. I didn't d…

Solid professor and a nice, easygoing guy. Lectured coherently for the most part, with some moments of confusion and some moments of exceptional clarity. His style didn't really encourage questions during lecture, but he was very accessible and eager to talk to students outside of class. I wouldn't take a class with him just to have him as a professor, but if you need to learn something he's teaching, you can count on him to teach it to you.

This course is very hard, but Prof. Urban is a very knowledgeable professor and his teaching skills are excellent, so I like the course but if anyone wants to take it please reconsider because it is indeed very hard.

HORRIBLE professor I cannot stress this enough- DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS His lectures are rambling and make no sense, his handwriting is horrible, he looses track of the point of his lectures. Honestly going to class was a waste of time, but learning the material on your own was also impossible The midterms were 4 problems each, with very little correlation between what we did in class/on homework and what was on the exam Averages of the second midterm and the final were both ~50%

So if you're taking this class and you've already done something equivalent in high school he really isn't that bad. HOWEVER, if you are taking this course because you actually need to learn things, you may want to rethink registering for his section. First of all, he has a heavy french accent which would be fine if he didn't speak at a subsonic volume. You have to sit in the front row if you want to hear anything that he's saying. He knows his stuff, but doesn't know how to teach it. He's an overall nice guy, but that only takes you so far if you're a mediocre teacher/have mediocre communication skills. The class moves at a glacial pace which could be good or bad depending on your calc background/abilities. It is a struggle to pay attention in this class.

Eric Urban seems as if he is an intelligent guy. but as a teacher i would not recommend him to anyone Here is why I would not recommend this class to you - Eric Urban does not teach. He reads the textbook in class and solves the examples that are in the textbook. when asked to explain something he is at a loss for words and does not manage to communicate it. - He is extremely rude and arrogant and does not give the slightest amount of fuck about the class or his students - He does not post anything on coursework's. not the homework's, the solutions to the homeworks, the grades, syllabus, solutions to practice finals. If you know how to do something you're lucky otherwise you're pretty much screwed in this class - There is absolutely no teaching that occurs in the classroom environment. Halfway through the semester i just went out of formality. - Grading. This class is not curved and the final is quite hard, so if you want an A in calc4 do not come here (If you think this is just cause I am stupid, I got an A+ in both calc 2 and 3) - He doesn't appreciate it when people bunk class and will make sure that you suffer in some way if you regularly do not go to class and do the material on your own. (So if you're one of those people who like to do that, he really made it hard for my friend who did) Here is why i would recommend this class to you .damn can't think of one good thing t…

Basically everything it says in the course description. I really got a lt from this course. It was very rigorous and the homework problems were fun and at times challenging (in a good way).

weekly problem sets, 2 midterms (which you'll fail), final