Reviews for Harland M. Glaz
Average Rating:| forsaken Course: MATH401 Grade Expected: A February 24, 2012, 2:04 pm | nice guy, so friendly |
| byre486 Course: MATH401 Grade Expected: A December 13, 2011, 8:38 pm | Dr. Glaz has monotone in class and classes feel quite long sometime. However, if you manage to concentrate every word that he says, they are very useful in preparing for tests. However, he was quite unorganized. He was very jumpy from one side of board to another. It was not a big problem because most of things are based on the book. His office hour seems to short but he is quite flexible if you actually go there and ask questions. However, expect to spend 70% of office hour in listening him unrelated to your question. He gave out quizzes and homework almost every week. They are quite helpful in preparing for exams if you do them. This class was my first 400level course and didn't know how to prove. He was quite flexible that because there were many non-major students in my class, he didn't give any proof questions on exams. If he is teaching any of my courses in the future, I will take him. He is very concerned about students' concerns and very friendly. :) |
| Anonymous Course: MATH401 Grade Expected: October 26, 2011, 12:00 pm | Although he is a nice guy, he is a terrible professor. He doesn't go over material that appears on the exam; as in, the day before the exam, he will mention that a topic will be appear on the exam, even though he has not covered or talked about it at all. He sends out practice problems, but prefaces them by saying he himself has not proof-read the material, and that it might contain errors... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How are students supposed to work off that material if he himself doesn't even know if it's right? Anyway, homework is weekly and quizzes are every other week. Again, he does not teach the material well at all; he often discuss an abstract way of approaching the problem, which we'll never use practically. His exams so far haven't been terrible, but you have to teach yourself the material properly. Find yourself another professor if you actually want to learn/ have an idea of what to do in class. |
| Luminaire Course: MATH401 Grade Expected: A May 21, 2011, 12:22 pm | In Math401, grades were about 20% hw, 40% on 3 exams, and 40% on the final. The final could be make or break. His teaching style during class is hard to understand. I relied mostly on the online book to learn anything. Homework is due every week and is time consuming. I felt like I was doing linear algebra homework every other day. We had 5 quizzes total, and they were graded pretty harshly. If you didn't understand what Glaz asked you on quizzes, you lost 20% minimum. The in-class exams were fair but people found them difficult. I did terrible on the first two exams. But afterwards, Glaz started sending out practice problems to exams then everyone did better. Same with the final. Overall, if he hands out practice problems to exams, they will very likely show up on the exam. Otherwise Glaz doesn't tell you what you should study and you have to guess. Overall a challenging course, but is manageable with moderate to tremendous effort |
| MusickVideo Course: STAT470 Grade Expected: A May 15, 2011, 4:15 pm | If you are an independent learner who doesn't mine gathering tidbits of information in lecture and putting it all together on your own time, Glaz will be fine. If you are the type who relies on a professor to walk you through the material, stay away from STAT470 with Glaz. His teaching method is below average; most of his statements are disjointed and often incoherent. The material in this class is not particularly difficult, but you have to spend a good amount of time piecing together information yourself, because there is a 0% chance that everything Glaz says in lecture will make sense to you. Unfortunately, you can't really rely on the book either, since it's practically written in a foreign language; it feels like the book was written for PhD's, not undergraduates looking to take an elective. Also, Glaz is lazy; if he says he will send an email out immediately after class, it will probably take a week for that to actually happen. When he says he will give you complete solutions, he will likely just give you answers to just the hardest 1-2 problems. Grades are based on about 6 homeworks and 4 quizzes (combined 15%), two in class exams (each 10%), one in class midterm (20%), one take home midterm (20%), and a cumulative final (25%). Some of the homeworks are difficult, mostly due to the fact that you may have not learned the material in class well enough for you to be able to apply it. Thankfully, the exams are all easy, as none of them introduce new material, and they are comprised of very basic applications of the material. If this class covered more difficult material, I would complain more. Thankfully, the course material is not too bad, and you can definitely learn it on your own, given the basic framework that Glaz provides you with in class. It is not difficult to get an A in this class; you just have to know what's coming. NOTE: This course is very algebraically heavy, and many of your problems will require 10% actual thinking and then 90% computation. Just an FYI. |
| Anonymous Course: MATH401 Grade Expected: A October 6, 2010, 1:37 pm | Prof. Glaz is literally the worst teacher I have had at UMD. He is very disorganized and difficult to follow in class. Asking him questions 1 on 1 rarely helps because he cannot answer a question directly. That being said, his tests are very straightforward and if you can follow the practice problems he gives you, you should get an A. But if linear algebra is a course you struggle in, Prof. Glaz is not for you. |
| ecdysis7 Course: MATH401 Grade Expected: March 8, 2009, 4:02 pm | Prof. Glaz is a decent person and an ok teacher... For the math department. That being said, he is somewhat difficult to follow in class. He also assigns a lot of homework, a lot of which doesn't seem related to the material. If you take this class, don't expect to go to office hours for clarification- he is a nice guy, but he'll spend an hour on everything else but your problem. Also, I would advise taking proofs before you take this class. There were a lot of proofs on homework and tests. The kids who took proofs got A's, while everyone else maxed out at B. |
| fuzzyLogic Course: AMSC460 Grade Expected: December 28, 2008, 5:32 pm | Hard to understand and no adequate text book was provided as a follow up. Too many digressions during lecture and some of the proofs left incomplete. Matlab projects were tedious. Exams were alright if you understood his lectures, fair at best. |
| Anonymous Course: MATH220 Grade Expected: B December 9, 2008, 3:30 pm | If you get this professor, find another one. This is the only class I've had where the TA was better than the professor. |