C2407-C2507 Intensive General Chemistry

Flynn's a great person and great professor, but his class is very hard. He does his lectures in powerpoint, so you can download them, but there's a big advantage to going to class - a lot of what's on the presentations doesn't make sense unless he's explaining it to you.
Top 5 reasons to take his class over normal G-chem:

5) The class is curved on a B+ average, so around a third of the class gets A-range grades
4) No chem-write paper. Ask anyone who took G-chem, it sucks.
3) For a guy of his stature, Flynn is a really humble guy. He's basically an expert in his field, but he'll happily take an hour of his time to answer your questions about the material.
2) There's about 80 people in Intensive, compared to ~225 in each section of G-chem. You can actually ask a question without feeling like you've just made 200 enemies.
1) Intensive chem is over in 1 semester; G-chem takes up 2. And if you got a 5 on the Chem AP, finishing Intensive chem gets you credit for a second semester anyway.

My point is: Flynn's a good teacher and his class is worth the extra effort.

Well, this course was actually pretty good, but Flynn is very dry and makes it QUITE easy to fall asleep (10 minutes max). I would recommend not even going to the classes, for the slide-show approach to teaching is not my cup of tea. The fact that Flynn himself is a knowledgeable man is virtually meaningless when it comes down to his ability to teach.

Professor Flynn is a good lecturer and just generally a good guy. He's extremely organized (the whole lecture is on slides put together in Powerpoint), but he is also exteremly willing to stop class to answer any questions from students. His explanations were generally clear and helpful. The class isn't always the most interesting, since those who have taken AP Chem are already familiar with some of the material, but he does his best. Everything about the class is fair and designed to help out students. The lowest midterm grade is dropped (or the final counts for less... whichever works out better for you), the curve is generous, and the midterms often have a question from the homework. Students are also given a practice test for each of the midterms and the final. The textbook is also pretty accessible, though you are very rarely required to read it.

When I signed up for this class I was under the impression that it would be a quick review of AP Chem and then a little bit of new stuff would be introduced. Not so. The class - or at least Professor Flynn - starts right out in the nitty-gritty of it, with some difficult-to-follow math on the first day. The class is further worsened by the fact that it's all on slides; all the math is done ahead of time, and thus goes by far too fast for students to really ask questions or comprehend the material - or even write it down. Basically George ends up reading the slides to you as they go by, which doesn't really help the sparse information they give. It seems he designed the course last year or the year before and just kept the slides around. He is very good at answering questions, but often the information provided on the slides are too sparse for a student to do anything less than interrogate him on the subject. Unfortunately, this is the only one-semester genchem course, so it must be borne by those of us who passed the AP test. Yeah, he got a teaching award, but I wouldn't have given it to him.