Professor Welch's tests always seemed significantly easier than those of the other teachers. The class was a decent amount of work, but most of it was relatively easy and office hours were very helpful in understanding the content. My advice is to attend office hours with multiple TAs or at times that won't be as crowded, as I often found myself waiting for a while for a free TA. The work in TopHat was extremely helpful in studying for the tests as some of the questions would be very similar. There's one reading per week and questions that go along with it. Then there's an assignment due before the expo, an assignment in expo, and an assignment due right after the expo.

I cried so hard during his lecture one day that the person next to me offered a tissue—I think that sums up Welch as a lecturer.
I never learned from anything during lecture (which is 1x per week); he just goes over one topic on a piece of paper with different colored markers, and that's pretty much it.
Besides that, the class itself isn't the worst. Most of the learning you'll do yourself. His exams are so bad, and he'll throw in new material that was never taught anywhere. If you get Welch for your Expo (basically group quizzes each week that don't teach you anything), he's easier to talk to and get real feedback. Everyone I know averaged like a C on the individual exams (we all took AP Chem in high school), but the group exams sometimes save your grade a bit. Good luck <3

Welch is a very passionate professor. The course is divided into a lecture and "expo" (group work) segment each week. You are expected to read a chapter before lecture, then complete a summary assignment before expo at the beginning of the next week. Expo pushes the content to further to complete your understanding with a small group. Then, you complete to one final summary assignment (B.I.T., Bringing It Together) after the expo. Overall this repetition of practice problems does well to make sure you actually learn the content. I built good study habits for this course since chemistry was not something I took advanced courses on in high school. Welch's lectures themselves were thorough, if not a tad boring since he works slowly. 75 minutes seems a little long for what he has to say, 50 minutes like other courses would be just fine in most cases.

The chapters themselves are pretty simple if you have good reading comprehension. Not all are created equally, however. Lewis Structures/VSEPR are super important and I would recommend focusing on them if you are taking the class yourself. The exams are fair summaries of the content that will challenge your learning. If you review the TopHat assignments you will do just fine.

Overall, Chem with Welch was a fair and engaging enough class. I highly recommend you take it with him, as I have heard less positive things about other professors.

This course isn’t conceptually very hard, but it was extremely annoying. Each week you read a textbook chapter and answer questions on it, attend one lecture covering the same material with another set of homework questions, participate in a small-group session (Expo) with more questions, and then complete Expo homework with… even more questions.

What makes this especially frustrating is that the lecture comes after the textbook reading and graded questions. As a result, you often spend hours working through dense material before it’s been explained, only for the same concepts to be re-taught a few days later. This makes the workload feel inefficient and the lectures feel slow, since you’ve already developed a deeper understanding of the material by the time it’s presented in class. The structure feels completely backwards and repetitive.

All of this repetition does lead to a strong understanding of the material, and Welch is a very solid professor. That said, the sheer volume of mandatory practice problems is daunting. I regularly spent 5+ hours a week answering what felt like the same few questions in slightly different forms.

Exams are split into two parts: an individual exam that is fairly straightforward if you keep up with the coursework, and a group exam with very strange and difficult questions that often feel way beyond the scope of the class. The saving grace is that the group exam has generous partial credit, often giving 80-90% credit for an incorrect answer.

Overall, if you put in the work, keep up with assignments, and genuinely try to understand the material, this course is an easy A. Just be prepared for a level of busywork that will test your patience every single week.

I would say that if you are looking between professors, Welch is a solid option, but not the best. The content that he tests on is definitely "easier," however he does not do a good job of teaching it himself. Expo is practically irrelevant to the exams and the final, which makes it hard and useless. Secondly, during his lectures, Welch does not actually truly teach the content. During the first couple of weeks it's fine, but later on, he mostly will cover one thing during the entire hour and 15 minutes, which is really frustrating as it leads to a lot of self teaching. However, he is a really understanding professor and answers questions if you have them. My biggest issue was not knowing which questions to ask as I wasn't sure what was relevant until AFTER the test. The other professors, however, give practice exams.

Professor welch is a very good lecturer for the things he does cover, but there is a lot he will not get to during class and may just brush over in expo that will be tested on--so it is very important to do the chapter readings seriously and not just do the questions with chat. His tests are very fair but there is not a curve and that many questions on each test so you do need to get almost everything right in order to get an A in the class. There is some opportunity for partial credit on the exams, but its not much.

He is definitely the best professor for chem 1410 and i had a way better time in the class than my friends who had other professors so you should definitely try and take welch if possible, its usually not an issue with the class being full as my section had seats open

I think Welch is a very nice man and a pretty good chemistry teacher, but his lectures won’t get you an A in the course. Chemistry is really about application and you need to make sure you’re putting lots of effort into your personal success.

Welch is a great proffesor, he doesn't give practice exams like some of the others, but the tests arent hard, so you don't really need them.

The main structure of the class was kind of annoying. Each week we had a: Chapter reading with questions, Bringing it Together (BIT), Looking Back Looking Ahead (LBLA), and then work in the expo. Pretty much everything is graded on accuracy, but the grading is extremely leniant, especially on group exams.

I think if you try and do all of your work on time you can definitely get an A/A-. You get a cheat sheet (paper front and back) that you can make and bring to each exam. The TAs were helpful sometimes in the expo sessions, but not always. As you go on in the course the exam grades become more and more reliant on your own knowledge and not the group exam not as much (initially the group exam is a lot of your exam grade and then it transitions to less and less as you go on 70%, 45%, 20%, and obviously 0% for the final).

The final is not too bad, expecially if you go over the other exams (Welch posted them before the final). Overall, would reccomend!

Professor Welch is a good professor and cares about your success in this class. He made very helpful review videos for the final which I thought was nice. Personally, I did not enjoy this class a lot while I was taking it, although I did learn a lot and it doesn’t seem so bad now that it’s done. The format of this class is more like a “flipped classroom” but not fully. You teach yourself most of the content through weekly readings that are usually quite long, and review assignments with practice problems. Each week there is a lecture that is pretty helpful. There is also an “expo” each week in which you get in groups and do problem sets, then another review assignment for homework. This class is pretty heavy on work but it isn’t super hard to succeed. You take an individual exam for each midterm and a group exam that counts for less each exam: 75% then 50% then 25%. The homeworks also are a portion of the grade. The class gets off to a quick start where you will first learn about orbitals which seem very complicated if you’ve never dealt with them, but become very easy by the end of the class. The final is not super difficult and had questions very similar to all of the midterm exams, so studying those is a good idea. Overall it’s a decently hard class conceptually but the grading is pretty forgiving.

Kevin Welch is an amazing professor for CHEM 1410. During his weekly lecture, he teaches a good amount of information pretty concisely and in a really helpful way. I think the best part of the class is the discussion sessions once a week, where we collaborate in groups on either chemistry problem sets or the group exams. The class is amazing and I definitely recommend the professor.