W. Dean Harman is a fantastic teacher. He is very nice, calm, and clear in his lectures. The material can be pretty difficult, but with his help you'll get through (go to office hours). The main drawback about taking this class is that the next semester you'll be taking from...dun dun dunnnn...Sundberg, who is absolutely terrible.

I was a little apprehensive about taking the 80 series, as my high school chemistry background was extremely weak compared to my peers <cough>TJ kids<cough>. However, Professor Harman teaches in such a way that he makes the enormous amount of information to be learned seem easy and effortless to grasp. I would recommend him 100%.

One final note: he's a little TOO nice when it comes to answering questions, so if you have a few brownnosers in your class asking inane, pointless questions, well... you may need to do some reading on your own, because he will answer EVERY question at the expense of the lecture.