Don't take this class.

Professor Arno is a nice person but doesn't know how to teach. Lectures would often be him reading the slides for 50 minutes. He posted the slides so there was no point in going to lecture. The last time I went the classroom was almost empty. It is better to just read the slides and study by yourself. Sometimes he would get confused with topics and made them harder.
There are weekly quizzes in discussion which are pretty easy if you study the lectures, with the option to correct them in order to improve your grade. The midterms were quite easy, and with the curve, I got this grade.

This professor is really nice and he really does seem to try but his lectures aren't very helpful since he does read from the slides and with chemistry I feel like there is a necessity for the professor to be able to write on the board and demonstrate how they work out the problem rather than giving you the slide with all the work done on it. Moreover, he posts his slides beforehand so no one really goes to lecture anyways. Also, there was like a big lack of communication between the TAs and this professor so grading wasn't very clear to any of us and so I didn't really understand what was going on. This class only counts five quizzes and they only go up to week 7 so i stopped paying attention, did well on the quizzes, tanked the final but still got an A-. doesn't really make sense

I would only recommend this class to students who are completely willing to teach themselves the material. I didn't want to jump straight into chem 14 or 20 because I didn't have a strong chem background from high school, so I decided to take this class. Though I will say the review of basic high school chem was probably useful, I had to teach myself all of the material. Dr. Papazyan is a nice guy, but his teaching is confusing and overly complicated. He highly recommends using his slides to learn rather than using the book, but I completely disagree. The textbook and other online resources (like YouTube videos) were MUCH more helpful. Going to lecture is somewhat useless as he really just reads off his lecture slides, which was often more confusing than just reading them myself. He is also extremely unorganized; he forgot to print out half the problems on our midterm, and we started our final 30 minutes late because he didn't bring periodic tables. As for workload, you will definitely have to get used to keeping up with the fast pace of the class and the weekly quizzes, but it is doable. Overall, again, I would only suggest people take this course if they really need a more basic foundation of chem and if they are completely prepared to self-learn.