Tatiana Allen - University of Tennessee - Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

Professor: Tatiana Allen

Department: Physics

College: University of Tennessee - Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PHY1030
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Does not teach at all. Expects you to learn the material by yourself. She only answers the question you ask in lecture. She is very smart and understands what she is doing, but does not know how to teach it to her student in a way they can learn it.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PHYS231
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Physics is hard no matter how you look at it. but you can learn in her class. read material before class you will do well

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Run why you can! I refuse to take physics 2 next semester because she is the only one teaching it! Horrible professor, thats all I need to say.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PHY1030
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

DO NOT TAKE HER! she does not simplify the lectures at all! you basically have to teach yourself. She is extremely smart, but not the best teacher. The only good thing that i can say is that she curves her exams a little.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

WORST professor I have ever had! Very smart and nice lady, but a terrible teacher. Does not know how to simplify information to help students. Her lectures do not match her tests and she is not helpful. Prepare to read the book to learn everything. If you work hard a B or maybe A is possible. But it will require a lot of time.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PHY2300
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

On a personal level I love Dr. Allen. She has a sense of humor and she is incredibly intelligent. She has a PHD in physics and mathematics. The course lectures cover strong derivation of ideas, but very little when it comes to actually solving problems .You better be up to par on your mathematics. There is very little actual calculus however.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PHY1030
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Absolute worst teacher at UTC. She expects you to easily grasp physics and the concepts she goes over. She gives quizzes from the HW problems in the book, but picks the most tricky ones. Her tests are basically concept based. Her lecture is pointless. Still can pull a B in her class because of curves and extra credit. Don't expect to learn anything

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She has a heavy accent, goes through material super quick, better off learning from the book and SI sessions than her. Still nice lady, fairly easy class. Easy quizzes, easy enough exams.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is a nice enough person. But she doesn't care anymore. If you go to her for help, she hurries you out of her office saying that other students are getting it, so you should too. She is lazy, & can't grasp why students don't just magically understand physics like she does. She doesn't know how to teach it. But she's the dept head & tenured.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PHYS232
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is awesome. I didn't know that physics would open my eyes to the world around me.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

If you don't read the book you will fail. Her lectures don't cover many of the important concepts that will be on the quizzes. Online HW and quizzes are tough, but the tests are a breeze (multiple choice) compared to the HW. The research paper is a joke. All in all, you can pass with little effort, but if you want a good grade, read the textbook.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

You will not learn a lot from her lectures. You MUST read the textbook and work practice problems to do well in this class. Homework and quizzes are very tough, but the exams are all multiple-choice and super easy compared to the quizzes. She goes through the material in class VERY fast and in little detail. I repeat, you MUST read to do well!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 2310
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Allen is awesome! Physics is very hard.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: 1030ANDLAB
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Allen was a great professor. She does move fairly quickly but there is a lot of material to cover in 1030. Her accent is very pronounced but its in no way confusing. She did write certain letters in weird ways so they looked like numbers. The paper is an easy AB, the quizzes are very hard but the Exams are not. Lab is also very easy.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Dr. Allen knows Physics extremely well, however, she does not know how to communicate her knowledge effectively to students. I enjoyed her personality, but learned nothing from her lectures. Everything I learned came from reading the text. She would make a great researcher, but seriously needs to take some classes on how to teach. Avoid!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This professor, if you can call her that, is a Russian physicist who speaks horrible English and expects you to have a photographic memory like her. She does one question per topic and then expects you to be an expert on it. After she does a single question she requires that you say you understand, even if you don't. Terrible excuse for a professor

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Most students seem to just ignore her during the lectures, and only attend so their participation grade doesn't fall. Her teaching is terrible. Her English isn't clear. If you don't understand, she becomes frustrated. She assumes many tenets of physics are common sense, and won't explain them, but will put them on tests. Avoid.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I actually really like Tatiana. It is a tough class for sure but just study! Homework really helps, and you can go to her for questions. I went to her office hours a lot and it helped me not only in learning the material, but to have her know you is a big plus. Long story short, she has high expectations, but it's not too unreasonable. She's cool!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1030
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I think Dr. Allen is quite underrated on this site. I'm sure many people here expect her to teach you everything you need during class. She won't. She can't. Don't expect to understand it then. Guys, you've got to put in hours looking at the material outside of class. Go to her office and ask questions for crying out loud. She'll always help you.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS1030
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She has awful teaching skills and instead of having the class participate she just does the entire problem and ask at the end, "do we get this?" She basically forces you to say yes and her methods make it very difficult to actually learn. IF you ever thought you enjoyed physics she will ruin that for you. If you can, avoid this teacher.