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I took this class in Fall 2010. Dan's is only a grad student, but I felt like he did a really good job helping with the material. The class is fairly difficult, but all 302 sections use the same material/exams. The smaller lecture size and his helpfulness made this class definitely doable.Rate My Professors ↗
Do not take this class over the summer. You are expected to learn the same material at an accelerated rate, and with fewer opportunities to learn (i.e., no lab.)Rate My Professors ↗
He is a very challenging instructor, not especially a good thing during the summer semester since you have less time to learn and more material to cover, but very willing to help. He will even skype with students. However, during the summer semester it was much to hard imo. Not sure about non-summer semester, but I dropped due to summer difficulty.Rate My Professors ↗
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