I urge you to talk to students who have taken this course before making up your mind to continue.
Some of the responses from last year's official Graduate Course Handbook : Selected Student Comments
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Q. Was this course of value to your education?
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Q. Knowing what you know now, would you have taken this course?
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Selected (!) student comments from the previous Handbooks: in previous years:
Great course! Every physicist must take this, they will not regret it.
I would recommend this course to everybody in the department, including non-students.
Excellent course, I would highly recommend it to any graduate student.
Fantastic and very useful course.
Great class! Learned a lot.
Undergrads should be offered a course like this (and made required).
Excellent course! Should be mandatory.
This is one of the best classes taken in my entire university career. Tony is an excellent instructor who preaches what he practices. Well done!
The course was very useful - it gave me plenty of things to keep thinking about in the future.
The course is great! I would recommend it to all physics students.
Very useful! The instructor is very knowledgeable, giving good advice, excellent assignments!
Every class was interesting (I never felt tired/sleepy during class).
Excellent class. Should encourage more students to attend. Even some faculty members should attend and learn how to communicate/teach.
By the way, I'm very glad that I took your course. It was one of the most effective and useful courses that I've taken.
So thanks for PHY1600, it was probably the most useful course I took in five years of university.
Possibly the best and most useful graduate course I've taken... Should be mandatory for all graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members....
I think this is the best course I have ever taken and Prof. Key is the best professor I have ever met.
This is a special and useful course, providing much (sic!) execises that were not covered by other courses.
This is a very good course that should be more adverised as essential to graduate students.
Tony Key is the perfect professor to teach the material. I wish I had taken it for credit earlier.
Very good course. Thank Tony for his work.
Tony is an excellent teacher.
This is the only course that has a connection with the real world.
We learned a lot from this course, especially the ability of wrting and presentation.
A superb course with a strict but caring instructor. This "communications boot camp" is not just a course, it's an "experience".
Great course. I learned a lot and despite that often I argued with the professor because I disagreed with him, it was very pleasant.
I am thankful I took this course.
The most useful course of my graduate career. Superbly taught – Tony is a breath of fresh air with his honest feedback. A course I will use week in, week out during
my career. Thanks!
Excellent Professor. Very useful feedback on assignments.
