Seems like there's been some time since anyone's left a Prof. Ghez eval. Perhaps she's changed since the last one, because she is an absolutely amazing teacher.

She has the enthusiasm and concern for her students that 90% of the professors here seem to have left back in grad school. She may be ever-so-slightly frazzled at times, but it just plays into the loopy astronomer persona and doesn't detract at all from the lectures (which any observant student can tell she puts a lot of time into creating).

Besides, it's just pretty awesome to be taught by someone as famous as Prof. Ghez in a relatively small class.

Oh I love her.

The best way to succeed in this class is to go to her office hours.

Professor Ghez is likely the most caring professor I have ever had. She is genuinely so concerned about her students' learning and is always very welcoming for anyone to ask and have their doubts clarified. On that note, she is SO intelligent she has a detailed answer for almost any question. She takes the time and effort to try and remember names and even holds open hours/study sessions once a week. I won't lie, there is A LOT of homework (considering that this isn't the only class you're gonna be taking and your other classes are likely also stem and therefore overall there's a ton of homework), and the homework itself is mildly hard and very tedious and time-consuming. Nevertheless, you do learn a lot and get to be taught by a Nobel Prize winner who teaches passionately and always excited about the subject.

Professor Ghez was a spectacular teacher. She was a kind, helpful, and understanding professor. She did assign a lot of homework sometimes, and we did have reading quizzes before every lecture, but they were usually pretty fair and doable. She always made sure to remind us that her office hours were open, and she also set up weekly homework sessions so the entire class could help each other with homework

I love Ghez. She is super friendly and passionate about teaching and her lectures were always engaging and fun. Her homeworks were always straight forward but her exams were pretty difficult. She gives you a cheat sheet so make sure you put everything from her slides on that cheat sheet. There were a lot of exam questions that were on something she mentioned once or twice in lecture so make sure you understand everything she went over. Take your own notes! At least I think it helps a lot rather than just looking at her slides.

This class was the highlight of my winter quarter. The homework took a fair amount of time commitment - for me at least, it was sometimes hard to understand how the homework questions related to the equations/topics we had been learning in class. But Professor Ghez has weekly homework sessions that made the experience much more enjoyable, and really helped in getting to know and be friends with the other students in the class. In all the lectures, you can truly feel the passion that Ghez has for the subject material (the hour and 15 minute lectures went by very fast, but in a good way!) Questions from the homework are guaranteed to appear on the midterms/final, so understanding those through study sessions and office hours really is the best way to succeed in the class.

Absolutely terrible. Professor had little concern for student learning. Lectures were unclear. She pretended like she cared, but she very impatient and unfriendly when approached with questions during office hours. She had an ego, and she let that get in the way of her instruction. What's sad is that I was not the only one in her class who felt this way about her. The Physics and Astronomy department needs to find someone more suitable to teach this class because the number of astrophysics majors is dwindling. Instructors like her only make this problem worse, as they push more and more students away from the major.

Prof Ghez always told us every lecture to go to her or the TA's office hours if we needed something clarified. Now that is someone who cares about us, and I thank her deeply. The class itself is very interesting and fun, but had its troublesome times. The homework was challenging, and the grader made it worse because you could have the right answer and miss a quarter of a point. Must have been sig figs or something. Prof Ghez, puts alot of energy in her lectures, so I was always amused. I can't recall getting bored once, I'm serious too :). Her tests her very, very fair, except for the fact that we had to round our numbers to one sig fig. A word of advice: Don't rush through the tests, you will pay severely, just like I did...