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Koffi Enakoutsa

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3.7
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Easiness 3.9 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 3.5 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 3.3 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 3.8 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Sept. 9, 2022
Quarter: Summer 2022
Grade: N/A

Trash professor, I would say... First, I could not literally understand what he was saying in the lecture nor know what he was writing on notes. With extremely unclear teaching, he left tons of assignments, roughly 20-30 problems a week--those were time-consuming. I did not learn anything from him but how to stand with a terrible accent and handwriting. The only positive side is he holds review sessions before each test. You are guaranteed a decent test score if you are mighty enough to understand what he is talking about and writing.

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MATH 32B
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June 15, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A

The biggest knock on Enakoutsa is that he assigns WAY too much homework. The HW assignments every week would range anywhere from 10-20 pages for me on GoodNotes for me and it would take hours upon hours to complete. While it did force me to learn the content, it was just too much. That being said HW was the best way for me to learn. His lectures were difficult to watch since he has this calligraphy handwriting that's hard to read and his accent is hard to understand also. Given lectures were on Zoom, he also scrolled through his notes way too fast (I would always have to go back to the recording so I could copy down the notes). The reason why I'd still recommend Enakoutsa over other professors is that his tests are super easy. They're super similar to homework (sometimes even the same but with different numbers), or he takes problems that he goes over in his review sessions (on the final he went over at least two questions verbatim in his review session). All in all, average professor, easy tests, and would take again.

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MATH 31B
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Dec. 26, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A-

To put it plainly, if you take him you'll have a homework each week (no exception) with on average 25 exercises but it can go as much as 40, which takes on average 7 to 15 hours. It's a heavy workload, especially when you have him in 2 classes (would not recommend at all, I had 60 to 80 exercises a week just with these 2 classes, it was a nightmare).
He doesn't drop any grade (not flexible at all on that), but you can give back all homework until the last day of the last week.
For the test, it was covid so we had 24 hours, it was honestly not that bad compared to the homework and the course. Everything was doable, but clearly not in 50 minutes as he said, more in 5 to 6 hours. But doable, not impossible.

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MATH 32A
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Dec. 25, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Enakoutsa is a really nice and approachable professor who wants to see his students succeed. I took this class as an incoming freshman and found it a nice transition to college. Problem sets were assigned every Friday and due the next week, and I would say the workload is appropriate. Grading breakdown was 20% homework, 25% x 2 midterms and 30% final exam. Note that the homework is graded for accuracy, so check your work carefully! Nearer the beginning of the quarter, the professor struggled with pacing, and as we were behind schedule, he posted multiple supplemental videos for us to watch after class; however, he seemed to have figured it out nearer the end of the quarter. Additionally, he teaches practically straight out of the textbook, so read the chapters carefully, they are super helpful. Some T/F and "give-an-example" questions on his midterms were worded confusingly, but he thankfully responded to feedback and did not put those on the final. Overall, Enakoutsa was quite fair and a decent professor, and I would recommend taking his class.

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MATH 31B
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Dec. 28, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: B

Reading the textbook is enough preparation for lectures. There is one set of homework given each week, except the last week where 3 homework sets were released. These sets are long and time-consuming so make sure to block off enough time to do them all. The professor is still adjusting since he is quite new.

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MATH 32A
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Dec. 18, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: C+

My overall rating on Professor Enkoutsa Koffi is mixed. The pacing was bad and the lectures were dry and there was a mild communication barrier (ie difficult time understanding the questions students were asking) The tests were fair and he was very nice and approachable. The same could not be said for my GSI, at least for the three times I showed up to discussion. I don't appreciate these sorts of remarks "that quiz was super easy, you all should have gotten 10/10" and "Here let me make this easy for you".

I think part of it had to do with adjusting to an online format. Professor Koffi obviously cares about his students and what he teaches. He spent too much time explaining the beginning details and subsequently rushed applications of partial derivatives. I think he could have done a better job at showing students how to solve problems that were to be on the midterms and homework. Particularly when it came to generalizing ideas I took for granted in single variable calculus. I think he should have spent more time distinguishing differentiability versus having partial derivatives and not being differentiable. Many students, including myself, continually asked clarifying questions on the matter but weren't able to figure it out in the end. There was a void there.

Last point: we never got our finals back. We got our midterms back. We should have been told that.

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MATH 32A
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Dec. 27, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Prof Enakoutsa really wants to help each student and cares about making sure that we understand the content. That being said, he frequently made small algebraic errors during lecture that sometimes made it harder to follow along. However, Enakoutsa is super approachable during office hours and also holds review sessions to help you understand if you are having any trouble. His tests/quizzes are not that bad because he makes sure that you learn the difficult content in the homework. Overall, I would recommend this professor!

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MATH 32A
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Dec. 28, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

The best part about Prof. Enakoutsa is, without a doubt, his care for his students and the emphasis he places on education. Unlike some professors who treat teaching as a chore (so it seems), Koffi will always put time into your learning process and try his best to accommodate when possible. He's hosted numerous review sessions in his spare time, is timely with answering questions on campuswire, and is overall a genuinely nice, approachable professor. His homework is fair, and he always claims that his homework questions are harder than his exam questions, which is true for the most part if you primarily consider the more difficult (but not crazy difficult) homework problems to be the standard for comparison. As a freshman, the amount of homework he gave seemed to be expected for a college-level calc class, but the problems are representative of the types he gives on exams so they aren't a waste of time. The problems gradually get harder throughout problem sets, but the most challenging questions never make it onto any exams. Obviously the 24 hour time slot due to COVID was a huge benefit for exams, but I don't think this course would produce crazy exams in a standard time frame anyways.

As far as his lecturing goes, I found it really helpful to read the sections he'd cover beforehand. Or if you can't, I suggest keeping the textbook open because he almost always goes through the examples in the book while he teaches. He sometimes has small algebra errors in things like derivations and examples that he has to go over, which leads to wasted time, but having the example right by you makes that less of an issue.

TLDR: Relatively easy & fair professor teaching a not-too-challenging course. I would recommend taking him!

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MATH 31B
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Dec. 30, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: C

Find someone else if you can. The workload is really high. My main problem with it is that some quizzes and test questions were not really very related to the class material. If you are a math genius, go for it no problem. The TAs were great but there were too few of them. The (live) lectures were quite disorganized, and the professor’s own time management didn’t really help either. If you take this class you may feel it is super easy by first midterm and just down right train wreck as yo approach the final. Hopefully he will reorganize the class to make it more doable for non-math nerds,

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MATH 32B
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May 2, 2021
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A-

So, I swear Koffi is very nice and is a good professor that knows his material. However, I cannot for the life of me understand his accent + handwriting. He comes from France, which I assume is where he got his distinct style but I have not successfully acclimated to it. It doesn't help that his audio is slightly muffled and the video quality is sub-optimal. It has become not possible for me to watch the lectures in person without getting behind on my note writing but a plus is that as well as being streamed on zoom, it is live-streamed on youtube at the same time so I can watch along and pause whenever. I find myself behind on watching lectures as there is an additional 4th lecture on Tuesdays that are pre-recorded. He is very lenient with late homework submissions and very understanding if you need help though. I advise taking him in person and working with him to ensure you have the best chance in his class because I feel like chalk is his medium and he is a great teacher otherwise.

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MATH 32B
Quarter: Summer 2022
Grade: N/A
Sept. 9, 2022

Trash professor, I would say... First, I could not literally understand what he was saying in the lecture nor know what he was writing on notes. With extremely unclear teaching, he left tons of assignments, roughly 20-30 problems a week--those were time-consuming. I did not learn anything from him but how to stand with a terrible accent and handwriting. The only positive side is he holds review sessions before each test. You are guaranteed a decent test score if you are mighty enough to understand what he is talking about and writing.

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MATH 32B
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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
June 15, 2022

The biggest knock on Enakoutsa is that he assigns WAY too much homework. The HW assignments every week would range anywhere from 10-20 pages for me on GoodNotes for me and it would take hours upon hours to complete. While it did force me to learn the content, it was just too much. That being said HW was the best way for me to learn. His lectures were difficult to watch since he has this calligraphy handwriting that's hard to read and his accent is hard to understand also. Given lectures were on Zoom, he also scrolled through his notes way too fast (I would always have to go back to the recording so I could copy down the notes). The reason why I'd still recommend Enakoutsa over other professors is that his tests are super easy. They're super similar to homework (sometimes even the same but with different numbers), or he takes problems that he goes over in his review sessions (on the final he went over at least two questions verbatim in his review session). All in all, average professor, easy tests, and would take again.

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MATH 31B
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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A-
Dec. 26, 2020

To put it plainly, if you take him you'll have a homework each week (no exception) with on average 25 exercises but it can go as much as 40, which takes on average 7 to 15 hours. It's a heavy workload, especially when you have him in 2 classes (would not recommend at all, I had 60 to 80 exercises a week just with these 2 classes, it was a nightmare).
He doesn't drop any grade (not flexible at all on that), but you can give back all homework until the last day of the last week.
For the test, it was covid so we had 24 hours, it was honestly not that bad compared to the homework and the course. Everything was doable, but clearly not in 50 minutes as he said, more in 5 to 6 hours. But doable, not impossible.

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MATH 32A
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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 25, 2020

Enakoutsa is a really nice and approachable professor who wants to see his students succeed. I took this class as an incoming freshman and found it a nice transition to college. Problem sets were assigned every Friday and due the next week, and I would say the workload is appropriate. Grading breakdown was 20% homework, 25% x 2 midterms and 30% final exam. Note that the homework is graded for accuracy, so check your work carefully! Nearer the beginning of the quarter, the professor struggled with pacing, and as we were behind schedule, he posted multiple supplemental videos for us to watch after class; however, he seemed to have figured it out nearer the end of the quarter. Additionally, he teaches practically straight out of the textbook, so read the chapters carefully, they are super helpful. Some T/F and "give-an-example" questions on his midterms were worded confusingly, but he thankfully responded to feedback and did not put those on the final. Overall, Enakoutsa was quite fair and a decent professor, and I would recommend taking his class.

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MATH 31B
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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: B
Dec. 28, 2020

Reading the textbook is enough preparation for lectures. There is one set of homework given each week, except the last week where 3 homework sets were released. These sets are long and time-consuming so make sure to block off enough time to do them all. The professor is still adjusting since he is quite new.

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MATH 32A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: C+
Dec. 18, 2020

My overall rating on Professor Enkoutsa Koffi is mixed. The pacing was bad and the lectures were dry and there was a mild communication barrier (ie difficult time understanding the questions students were asking) The tests were fair and he was very nice and approachable. The same could not be said for my GSI, at least for the three times I showed up to discussion. I don't appreciate these sorts of remarks "that quiz was super easy, you all should have gotten 10/10" and "Here let me make this easy for you".

I think part of it had to do with adjusting to an online format. Professor Koffi obviously cares about his students and what he teaches. He spent too much time explaining the beginning details and subsequently rushed applications of partial derivatives. I think he could have done a better job at showing students how to solve problems that were to be on the midterms and homework. Particularly when it came to generalizing ideas I took for granted in single variable calculus. I think he should have spent more time distinguishing differentiability versus having partial derivatives and not being differentiable. Many students, including myself, continually asked clarifying questions on the matter but weren't able to figure it out in the end. There was a void there.

Last point: we never got our finals back. We got our midterms back. We should have been told that.

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MATH 32A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 27, 2020

Prof Enakoutsa really wants to help each student and cares about making sure that we understand the content. That being said, he frequently made small algebraic errors during lecture that sometimes made it harder to follow along. However, Enakoutsa is super approachable during office hours and also holds review sessions to help you understand if you are having any trouble. His tests/quizzes are not that bad because he makes sure that you learn the difficult content in the homework. Overall, I would recommend this professor!

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MATH 32A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 28, 2020

The best part about Prof. Enakoutsa is, without a doubt, his care for his students and the emphasis he places on education. Unlike some professors who treat teaching as a chore (so it seems), Koffi will always put time into your learning process and try his best to accommodate when possible. He's hosted numerous review sessions in his spare time, is timely with answering questions on campuswire, and is overall a genuinely nice, approachable professor. His homework is fair, and he always claims that his homework questions are harder than his exam questions, which is true for the most part if you primarily consider the more difficult (but not crazy difficult) homework problems to be the standard for comparison. As a freshman, the amount of homework he gave seemed to be expected for a college-level calc class, but the problems are representative of the types he gives on exams so they aren't a waste of time. The problems gradually get harder throughout problem sets, but the most challenging questions never make it onto any exams. Obviously the 24 hour time slot due to COVID was a huge benefit for exams, but I don't think this course would produce crazy exams in a standard time frame anyways.

As far as his lecturing goes, I found it really helpful to read the sections he'd cover beforehand. Or if you can't, I suggest keeping the textbook open because he almost always goes through the examples in the book while he teaches. He sometimes has small algebra errors in things like derivations and examples that he has to go over, which leads to wasted time, but having the example right by you makes that less of an issue.

TLDR: Relatively easy & fair professor teaching a not-too-challenging course. I would recommend taking him!

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MATH 31B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: C
Dec. 30, 2020

Find someone else if you can. The workload is really high. My main problem with it is that some quizzes and test questions were not really very related to the class material. If you are a math genius, go for it no problem. The TAs were great but there were too few of them. The (live) lectures were quite disorganized, and the professor’s own time management didn’t really help either. If you take this class you may feel it is super easy by first midterm and just down right train wreck as yo approach the final. Hopefully he will reorganize the class to make it more doable for non-math nerds,

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MATH 32B
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A-
May 2, 2021

So, I swear Koffi is very nice and is a good professor that knows his material. However, I cannot for the life of me understand his accent + handwriting. He comes from France, which I assume is where he got his distinct style but I have not successfully acclimated to it. It doesn't help that his audio is slightly muffled and the video quality is sub-optimal. It has become not possible for me to watch the lectures in person without getting behind on my note writing but a plus is that as well as being streamed on zoom, it is live-streamed on youtube at the same time so I can watch along and pause whenever. I find myself behind on watching lectures as there is an additional 4th lecture on Tuesdays that are pre-recorded. He is very lenient with late homework submissions and very understanding if you need help though. I advise taking him in person and working with him to ensure you have the best chance in his class because I feel like chalk is his medium and he is a great teacher otherwise.

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