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Koffi is my funniest lecturer last quarter. Absolutely hilarious if you're into that type of teacher.
His accent was strong, but I got used to it after a week or two. The biggest problem is not the accent but how he doesn't explain or break down the concepts but just narrates it as a repetition of the textbook. When there's a hard concept to teach he would just repeat the definition again and again in his non-logical manner, and say "is it clear? is it clear?", and nobody would respond to him, and he gets triggered and goes "yes!" as a response to himself. So, bad teaching combined with an accent, I'm not sure if it's just me but the lectures were just nightmares for me; terribly hard to follow; total waste of time; I stopped going after midterm 1.
BUT, THERE IS A TRADEOFF. His homework and exams are super easy. HW questions are straight from the textbook, and test questions are just variations of similar problems. Easy A if you put in the work.
Conclusion:
*strong independent learning ability and just wants an A ---- sure, take it
*care about high-quality teaching and learning ---- leave!
Brilliant professor and a good lecturer, but you have to work damn hard to succeed. Homework assignments, 2 midterms, final and oral exams are your entire grade. No extra credit. Friendly and accessible outside office hours. Material is very theoretical and hard to grasp. Don't take if not a math major.
Enakoutsa is probably a great guy, however, he is unintelligible due to his thick accent. If you want a math teacher to actually teach you, find another class. However, if you can teach yourself, the textbook is great, and the tests are manageable. VERY IMPORTANT: Enakoutsa does not like to write new exams, so when given old exam material, memorize it, and you'll ace the exams.
Lectures aren't recorded, though he just follows the textbook so if you miss a lecture you can just take notes on the chapters.
Tests are very similar to practice exams, final is slightly harder but the 3 hours is more than enough time if you know you stuff.
One annoying thing is that the homework is always behind on what we're learning, as in we'll be doing homework on stuff we learned like 2 weeks ago so it's not going to help us on our upcoming tests or quizzes.
I think as a class it's pretty easy but just make sure you don't make silly mistakes and touch up on some trig identities from BC and you should be fine.
To preface this, it is true that professors with accents tend to be given lower ratings by students, which is not entirely fair. Professor Enakoutsa was perfectly intelligible, and this review is not based on his speaking ability. However, his handwriting is quite difficult to read, and everything on screen during lectures is his handwritten notes.
This is not an issue as soon as you realize that EVERYTHING in those notes and in the slides provided on Bruinlearn are ripped word for word from the textbook, and that following along in the textbook will provide you exactly the same educational experience as the lectures.
If you are taking this class, buy the textbook. Read the textbook. If something from lecture is confusing, it's printed clearly in the textbook. Don't bother with anything else.
Otherwise, the homework load was generally manageable, although it was noticeably lagging behind the class, which was itself lagging behind the pace outlined in the syllabus. Despite this, the professor commented that our class is the first time he's managed to finish the course material on time. My TA, Venkat, was excellent, and was a great resource for clarifying things from the lecture.
Midterm and final were both alright, one question each on four topics, sometimes with sub-questions.
Koffi is my funniest lecturer last quarter. Absolutely hilarious if you're into that type of teacher.
His accent was strong, but I got used to it after a week or two. The biggest problem is not the accent but how he doesn't explain or break down the concepts but just narrates it as a repetition of the textbook. When there's a hard concept to teach he would just repeat the definition again and again in his non-logical manner, and say "is it clear? is it clear?", and nobody would respond to him, and he gets triggered and goes "yes!" as a response to himself. So, bad teaching combined with an accent, I'm not sure if it's just me but the lectures were just nightmares for me; terribly hard to follow; total waste of time; I stopped going after midterm 1.
BUT, THERE IS A TRADEOFF. His homework and exams are super easy. HW questions are straight from the textbook, and test questions are just variations of similar problems. Easy A if you put in the work.
Conclusion:
*strong independent learning ability and just wants an A ---- sure, take it
*care about high-quality teaching and learning ---- leave!
Brilliant professor and a good lecturer, but you have to work damn hard to succeed. Homework assignments, 2 midterms, final and oral exams are your entire grade. No extra credit. Friendly and accessible outside office hours. Material is very theoretical and hard to grasp. Don't take if not a math major.
Enakoutsa is probably a great guy, however, he is unintelligible due to his thick accent. If you want a math teacher to actually teach you, find another class. However, if you can teach yourself, the textbook is great, and the tests are manageable. VERY IMPORTANT: Enakoutsa does not like to write new exams, so when given old exam material, memorize it, and you'll ace the exams.
Lectures aren't recorded, though he just follows the textbook so if you miss a lecture you can just take notes on the chapters.
Tests are very similar to practice exams, final is slightly harder but the 3 hours is more than enough time if you know you stuff.
One annoying thing is that the homework is always behind on what we're learning, as in we'll be doing homework on stuff we learned like 2 weeks ago so it's not going to help us on our upcoming tests or quizzes.
I think as a class it's pretty easy but just make sure you don't make silly mistakes and touch up on some trig identities from BC and you should be fine.
To preface this, it is true that professors with accents tend to be given lower ratings by students, which is not entirely fair. Professor Enakoutsa was perfectly intelligible, and this review is not based on his speaking ability. However, his handwriting is quite difficult to read, and everything on screen during lectures is his handwritten notes.
This is not an issue as soon as you realize that EVERYTHING in those notes and in the slides provided on Bruinlearn are ripped word for word from the textbook, and that following along in the textbook will provide you exactly the same educational experience as the lectures.
If you are taking this class, buy the textbook. Read the textbook. If something from lecture is confusing, it's printed clearly in the textbook. Don't bother with anything else.
Otherwise, the homework load was generally manageable, although it was noticeably lagging behind the class, which was itself lagging behind the pace outlined in the syllabus. Despite this, the professor commented that our class is the first time he's managed to finish the course material on time. My TA, Venkat, was excellent, and was a great resource for clarifying things from the lecture.
Midterm and final were both alright, one question each on four topics, sometimes with sub-questions.