Charles Lanski - University of Southern California

Professor: Charles Lanski
Department: Mathematics
College: University of Southern California
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: B-
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
While very tough, Lanski is willing and available to help you out. The lectures are long, bet help you learn the material effectively. Wouldn't recommend him because he's so hard, but he's a good teacher.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Lectures are impossible to follow unless you have a very strong foundation in math. First math class where I've felt the need to pull all-nighters studying to pass. He tries to answer questions and be helpful but doesn't know how to dumb anything down and is very confusing
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: MATH225
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Lanski has unreadable handwriting, and gets upset when students ask what he wrote. He explains concepts in abstract, theoretical ways that might be suitable for math majors, but were opaque to me and other students. He diverges hugely from the textbook, instead choosing to send students notes written in his hieroglyphics. Avoid at all costs.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: MATH125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Tricky, confusing, making easy stuff difficult, helpless lectures, that's it. Maybe a good mathematician, but not a good math teacher.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: MATH125
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
This is the worst teacher I ever had at USC. He is so bad. Do not take him!! I go to his office hours and he spends more time yelling at me than helping me, and he is always unclear. I used to love math and now I hate it. He is really quiet in lectures and stands in front of the board so you can't read anything. His examples are really bad too.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: MATH125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Lanski is very unclear in class. You have to make sure you sit at the front to be able to interpret his small and messy handwriting. Use the textbook!! You need to teach yourself most of the information from the textbook, as half the time Lanski doesn't know where he is going with his examples himself. Also, tests in nearly every dis.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The class is very theoretical, abstract, and difficult. He is quiet and difficult to understand. If he skips a whole bunch of steps and you ask how he got something he will reluctantly explain to you what "you should remember from calc 1" or "earlier in the semester". Keep up or get left behind. Doesn't give lower than a C though.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: MATH125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Avoid him at all costs. He is a terrible Calc I teacher. I went into his office hours and he went on a 30 minute rant about the importance of math without answering a single one of my questions.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
So glad to be done and not have to take a class with this guy ever again... Avoid if possible
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is very theoretical and for Calc2, his tests are in another world compared to other Math126 professors. If you go to his office hours he's a decent guy who will try to help but he's so theoretical that it just gets you confused. His tests are INSANELY HARD so just avoid taking him!
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
do everything in your power to avoid getting in this guy's class. i stopped going to lecture and all of a sudden my grades skyrocketed. good luck trying to learn taylor series from him. or passing his exams.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: MATH225
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He didn't explain it well at all, and the concepts were extremely abstract. Passed with a C+ but after a lot of work.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His tests are practically impossible.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Explains only in abstract, using the definitions. No examples given.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: MATH117
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
painful, talks too fast, will get at least a C...if you can last till end of sem
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: MATH126
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
goes too fast, hard to catch up if u fall behind
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