Tbh, I came into this class a little bit intimidated, as I had only taken honors chemistry in high school and while I passed with a 98, I feel like I did not learn anything. However, after going through this class, I can confidently say I learned a lot, and I mean a lot about general chemistry, and I loved the class. I will not sugarcoat this class, as I got a 93% this semester (an A), but I had to put in a decent amount of time studying. Do not be intimidated though, as all of our exams were open note and online (including the final, which was also only multiple choice!), so as long as you are prepared, this class is a great class to take. And in my opinion, I loved professor Welch. From my experience in lecture, he explains this well, and does not just regurgitate what you read in the textbook (which can be very confusing with big terms and run-on sentences some times). Overall, if you want/need to take Chem 1410, please take it with Welch.

Welch is a decent prof. Class was structured where you read the chapter and the embedded questions are due 11:59 PM day before lecture. In lecture he goes over what he believes is important from the chapter. I found the lectures not super helpful but sometimes they could be, especially if people ask good questions. Then theres LBLA (looking back looking ahead) due before expo- more questions. Then you have expo on the other day where you do group work, usually not too bad. Then you have BIT due sunday 11:59. 3 exams, all open note, resource, internet, take them where you want (alone). A final project and a final. Final is all mc or like enter a number as your answer and is also open note, resource, internet. Welch wasn't too bad. I think the class was only okay because it was open resource. Exams (except final) have 3 parts, individual, individual, and group. They also change how much each part is worth, first exam its, 20%,10%,70%, second is 45%,10%,45%, and last is 70%,10%,20%. #tCFfall2021

Kevin Welch is a pretty good professor compared to the other professors that my friends had from what I've heard. However, the class is honestly mostly self-taught from the online assignments. I stopped going to lectures after the first few weeks because it was just a review of the readings.

It's decently easy to get an A if you put in some work. You just need to make sure you understand the readings and ace the LBLA, BIT, and EXPO. The tests are open-note so they're not too bad. Group work is pretty important so hope you get group members that will also put in some work. Also, on the group exam, online research is your friend. Some of the answers to questions were special cases that were not covered in the readings and were completely opposite to the trends/concepts that you have learned.

I did get an A in this course, but I would say it is difficult to do. I separated my review into the course itself and the professor.

Professor:
He is an absolute joy of a professor. He is accommodating and always willing to work with you. I would highly recommend taking Chem 1410 with Welch. He is very good at conveying the concepts in a basic manner. Professor Welch genuinely wants every single student to succeed. It is in your best interest to have a meeting with him early if you are at all struggling.

Course:
The exams are application based and sometimes there are questions that in order for you to get them correct you would need to understand virtually everything. Still, there is a good amount of buffer assignments in this course. The Tophat assignments are the key to success. You must take the extra effort to check answers on the Tophat weekly readings, LBLA questions, EXPO, and BIT questions. I know it is a bit unreasonable that you are expected to do well your first time sitting with the material, but its important to do well on this assignments. After all, they make up 25% of the grade.

This class is a really good intro to chem class. Professor Welch is really good at keeping lectures interactive and working individually with students to create a positive learning environment. He is very accommodating towards any extensions and is also more then willing to give extra help for understanding. I would 100% recommend him.

I thought Welch was a really great professor. Basically every gen chem class is structured the same way, so you're not going to have a super unique experience no matter which professor you take, procedurally speaking. I often found the readings to be quite hard to understand, but Kevin's explanations in lecture really cleared things up. This is not a chill class to fulfill a STEM requirement, but if you're one of the thousands taking chem for your major, I'd recommend this prof

If you're going to take CHEM 1410, take it with Welch. I was scared going into his class with how he had the biggest lectures, but he is genuinely there to help. The format of the course does involve a good amount of outside work, but it is all work that better helps you to understand the material. There is the chapter reading due midnight the night before your lecture, then the LBLA is due one hour before your Expo section (aka workshop/discussion section,) the Expo work is due the night of your Expo section but it can usually get done in class, and then the BIT was due Sunday at 11:59pm for my class (I had lecture on Tuesday and Expo on Thursday.) I consider myself someone who is not that great at science, but I found myself succeeding in this class beyond my expectations. The chapter readings are dense, as people have said, but I found rewriting them in my own document helped me to better read through without the interruptions of the questions throughout. The chapters that did seem confusing often made more sense when I reread the chapter in my own document before the test. I recommend reading the chapters at least a day before they're due so you're not cramming and can actually understand, and ATTEND LECTURE. Welch does a lot of drawings during lecture so I recommend having a notebook or tablet you can draw on. These help a lot if you're a visual learner as well. Doing the LBLA right after lecture and the BIT right after Expo can help you get in a great routine.
Like I said, I always thought I was bad at science before this class, but I still managed to get the grade I wanted. Expo is a great time to ask your Expo group for help if you're confused because then it can be explained in a more understandable way since they're your peer and not a textbook, but TAs and Welch are also extremely helpful during Expo. If your Expo group is bad, it does cast a bit of a downfall on that aspect of the course, but I really liked Expo overall because it dulled my fear of the big lectures preventing me from better understanding chemistry.
TL;DR. Take this class with Welch. Get in a routine with all of the outside assignments. Take notes and draw during lecture. Take advantage of the help that you can get in Expo.

Welch is an amazing professor. He is extremely kind and really fast at responding to questions on Teams. I'm a CS major and this made me so much more interested in chemistry than I was before. The course wasn't difficult, but it was a lot more reading than I expected. I suggest taking detailed notes on the readings. The lectures aren't always that helpful but it's worth going to/watching them because Professor Welch says some important info that isn't in the reading but is covered on exams. I'm really glad I took this course and I might take CHEM 1420 later on because of it!!

First of all, I would like to say that Prof. Welch is probably the best professor I've had since I've been here and his lectures make everything make complete sense. This class does have hard concepts which the textbook is terrible at simplifying. However, in lecture Welch is very good at explaining these difficult topics. He also puts himself out there to help as much as he can, which is nice.

I was really nervous to take this since the last time I'd taken chemistry was a regular chem course in 9th grade. Even then, I'm on track to get an A in the class. This class is structured to give you a lot of work for only 1 chapter a week. You have textbook reading/homework, then questions to answer before, during, and after Expo. This might feel like a lot, but usually it was well balanced and really helped me in the long run- I've never retained so much material throughout the semester for any other class.
The reading's dense (and just god-awful), so I'd recommend just skimming and highlighting key terms and statements, anything that you need to answer the homework. Usually, Welch does a good job of summarizing the reading and making it easier to understand, but his lectures are pretty surface-level. Honestly, the rest is up to you and your expo group, and your ability to connect different concepts. My expo group was great this semester and is probably a big reason why I was successful in this course.
Overall, this class isn't bad unless your expo sucks. Welch is super approachable and caring, and the material itself isn't too difficult. The exams, for me, were pretty fair.