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Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: ENGL101 Grade Expected: December 24, 2011, 8:45 pm | This review is for Professor Eleanor Tipton. This professor is a very difficult grader on papers. She hardly gives enough review in your rough drafts for the papers, and for the final papers gave no reviews for the rough drafts at all. The only reason I give this professor a 2 is because she is personable in the classroom, but in the grade book, she is one of the tougher graders. Secondly, the information given to us for the papers was vastly insubstantial, and I was unable to feel any motivation from the professor for this class. Overall, the class was made much more difficult because of my professor, Eleanor Tipton. |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: A December 21, 2011, 9:19 pm | This review is for Dan Hertz. His lectures aren't particularly interesting because he spends most of the lectures deriving formulas. However, his midterms do not test anything remotely close to his lectures. In addition, his quizzes are ridiculously, particularly the ones toward the end of the semester, such that everyone just gets Ds/Fs on. That said, it is still possible to get an A in this class under Hertz, since the averages for the exams were DISMALLY low (the 2nd midterm had a 49% avg and the 3rd midterm had a 44% avg). If you can get raw Bs the exams, you have a decent shot of getting an A in his class. I also found it ridiculous how Hertz said he was awarding only 1/6 of the class an A (~16%), which is half the percentage other PHYS141 professors usually give for this class. |
| Anonymous Course: BSCI105 Grade Expected: December 21, 2011, 6:51 am | Be prepared for a very difficult semester. I value the lessons that I learned from this class, like new study skills and habits, and academic perseverance. I'm a psych major and this course is for science majors, but I have to take it for psych. If you are a science major this might be easier for you, but all the bio and kinesiology majors in the class had just as difficult of a time as I did. Higgins is extremely talented in the field of biology and that's the problem. I guess he forgets that none of us have been a PhD for 30 plus years and he can't just expect you know the most obscure details if he never covered them in class. He's pretty approachable if you have questions, but sometimes he'll do things like surf the internet while you're trying to talk to him which is extremely irritating. He does give out a lot of extra points, and lab should help you. My best advice: Learn every process you cover in extreme detail. Be able to explain it to somebody else verbatim,and be able to draw EVERYTHING. You won't be able to rely solely on the slides, but you are going to have to know everything on them. Take a ton of notes in class. Go to GSS, it's absolutely necessary. Go to his office hours and make sure he knows who you are. He is a very engaging lecturer and a nice guy. He's just also very arrogant and apparently likes to make people really nervous, only to drop a huge curve on them at the end. I got an A somehow after being certain I would get a B minus. But don't count on that because I definitely think he would be one to give a huge curve one semester but not the next. Work as hard as you possibly can and it should pay off. Good luck!!! |
| Anonymous Course: AAST201 Grade Expected: C December 18, 2011, 6:56 pm | Professor Otsuka was definitely not the greatest professor he seemed like a nice person but his grading system did not make sense and he gave us basically the hardest final to take requiring us to remember 73 terms 10 short answers and know the answers to at least 6 or 7 essay questions where we would have to refer to the book when we couldn't use a book or any source while writing this essay for the final. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL282 Grade Expected: A December 15, 2011, 10:42 pm | Cameron Mozafari is a grad student. And like the majority of UMD grad students I've met who hold staff positions at the university, he's pretty tough to get along with. He lacks maturity, and was known to send myself and some of my classmates some rude e-mails if he didn't feel like answering our questions. His comments on assignments are often irrelevant, nit-picky, and patronizing. He assigns a lot of homework, and often does not give nearly enough notice of when it's due, (just because it is or is not on his syllabus often doesn't mean anything.) He teaches a class about very subjective material, but is very opinionated, and will take points off an assignment if he disagrees with you. I liked the course material a lot, just had a very hard time with Cameron as a teacher. In fairness, I should say he improved somewhat towards the end of the semester. He became more responsive to students and got better at answering e-mail questions. Overall though, that's all I noticed changing. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL282 Grade Expected: December 4, 2011, 8:48 am | This review is for CAMERON MOZAFARI for ENGL282. He is very boring to listen to. The material is dull and difficult, and you have to read a lot of it. The midterm was ridiculously long for the given time period, even with the extension he gave us to work on the essay the next day. He can get bratty. He is not a professor yet. Overall, I think it is a bad blend of self-righteousness and the fact that this was his first semester teaching this course that led to the faults of this course. It is not impossible to get an A. |
| Anonymous Course: HLTH140 Grade Expected: A November 29, 2011, 7:23 am | Go to lecture because she doesn't post any slides on ELMS. Information is easy to understand and presented well. Tests are multiple choice, final is non-cumulative, and 3 one-page assignments due over the course of the semester. Several speakers who are mostly boring and can be skipped. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL297 Grade Expected: November 17, 2011, 9:53 am | I really enjoyed this class. My professor was Marian Goddard and she is really passionate about poetry, which makes it interesting. The work is pretty consistent (manageable) but there is definitely a rhythm to the class that you'll get used to. You don't have to know much about poetry to keep up with the class. In Poetry Workshop you analyze poems of famous poets (Sylvia Plath, Robert Hass) and then on "seminar" days you submit your original poems and get feedback & critiques. It helps if you are somewhat into poetry/writing- but if you do the work you will be good to go. The one thing is the professor is a little biased about types of poems she likes.. but she is open to other opinions as well! |
| Anonymous Course: CCJS451 Grade Expected: A August 17, 2011, 8:20 am | This class was great. I took it with Professor Kathryn Kozey who definitely knew all the material for the class extremely well. She was a very fair grader, and her tests were also fair (no trick questions). As long as you go to class and actually give your opinion about things when she asks for it you will do very well. |
| Anonymous Course: ENAE415 Grade Expected: B July 9, 2011, 3:31 pm | This is a tough course. But if you want to learn about helicopters, Leishman is the guy. You will need to get his textbook to pass the class - do the problems in the book and you will pass his exams. He will give you access to the solutions if you ask him! |
| katstaff Course: PHYS104 Grade Expected: May 24, 2011, 5:04 pm | This was a very interesting course and professor Greene is a good teacher. He is always available to help students and answer their questions. He really loves what he does and brings a good energy to the classroom. You definitely need to keep up with the readings in this course and do not hesitate to ask questions about the homework if you don't understand them since they are good study tools for the exams. You do need to put in effort in this course and definitely go to class... the demonstrations are helpful to understand the concepts. Professor Greene is a fair grader and appreciates class participation. Overall, a good course and I really learned a lot about how things work! |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL101 Grade Expected: May 23, 2011, 10:57 pm | Stay away from Anna Rowser at all costs. You will hate your life. Worst teacher I've had in all of my college years. Patronizing and overwhelming. |
| Anonymous Course: KNES289X Grade Expected: A May 4, 2011, 5:17 pm | WHAT A GREAT CLASS! I only ever write reviews if I am positively compelled to do so. I took this class to fill a CORE PS requirement because it seemed much more interesting than the generic science classes UMD has. Given it's an I-series course so it's loads more interesting and fun. I went to mostly all the discussions and all the lectures primarily because the subject matter is fascinating to me and also because Professor Roth goes over crucial information in lecture for the essay's you have to write bi-monthly. I thought that having to write two essays a month on topics that were pretty deep and complex would be a nightmare, but it really was not at all. Never thought I'd love writing science research papers but I really did. He gives you all the sources you can use so it's not like you have to spend time looking for resources. Also, I just love writing essays and find them easy to crunch out within one night, so if you're not into essays, then maybe this isn't your class. The grades are based primarily on your essays (out of 15 pts) but he drops the lowest one. It's really easy to get an A on them if you read the prompt carefully and know how to string together a sentence. OVERALL! One of my favorite classes of all time. Deeply interesting, not that time consuming, and not at all hard to excel in. Definitely take this course. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL101 Grade Expected: C+ April 27, 2011, 6:05 pm | Professor Andrew Black is by far the worst English professor I have ever had. As a student who has been repeatedly praised for her writing, to listen to this man dribble on about linking verbs, and other nonsense that has no reflection of one's writing skills, is sickening. He is boring, obnoxious, and loves to point out what you do wrong. He does not care about how he grades or how that grade affects you. He pretends to be open to student's opinions but the man only cares about headings, font, and other bs that has nothing to do with writing. English 101 is a fun course, however, because Mr. Black uses a completely different syllabus, don't think you can cheat, and don't think you are going to have any fun writing 20, ten page papers. I really hope he gets fired. |
| Anonymous Course: MATH015 Grade Expected: April 27, 2011, 3:35 pm | Do not under any circumstances take this course if Dr. David is teaching it. There are no words for how mean, vindictive and petty this instructor is. My life was a nightmare that didn't stop when I left class because I did a minimum of three hours of homework each evening. If you do have her for an instructor, prepare for the following: being yelled at, being told how stupid you are, having your grades be revealed to the whole class, not being allowed to ask a question, never knowing what the rules are, losing 20 points made up of 1/2 and 1/4 points each because things that you did not do things exactly as she wished (even though she never expressly told you how to do them), losing the entire number of points possible on a problem if you don't do it her way (who cares if the work is solid and the answer is correct?), being told that you have destroyed her love of teaching and that she can hardly face coming to class today because you are so stupid, so worthless and such a disappointment. Do I need to go on? Additionally, you will do 40 problems each evening and take a quiz each afternoon. And remember: you are not allowed to ask a question, because if you do, you are stupid (never mind that she only listens to the first two words of your question before she starts telling you how dumb you are). So, if you need clarification, too bad for you. Oh, and she will remind you constantly that a kindergartner can do this work. If this matters to you, be warned: she makes her personal religous feelings known, which can be rather unpleasant for those who do not share them. I was actually afraid of Dr. David and my performance in the class dwindled down to one thing: please don't let me do anything that will make her yell at me or call me out in front of the class. I learned nothing because the course was a brain dump: do problems, take (fail) quiz, dump contents of brain, get told how stupid you are, repeat. It's a shame: Dr. David has an interesting life story and truly loves math, but her belief that punishing and belittling people is a good, effective method of teaching gets in her way. I have never in my life posted anything like this and I am doing it not to get even, but to do a service to the UMd community: no one should be subjected to what I have experienced this semester. |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: A April 26, 2011, 5:44 pm | Adam was a great teacher, he has very dry humor but takes into consideration what the students say about the class. It's definitely an easy class to take for a CORE, and very interesting. There are some pop quizzes so make sure you read the book, also the exams are easy as long as you pay attention to the powerpoint slides. He doesn't post them online so make sure you go to class. Overall this is an easy class and extremely interesting! |
| Anonymous Course: MATH130 Grade Expected: March 28, 2011, 6:57 pm | Professor Davis is one of the best professors I've ever had. She is extremely energetic, and provides numerous examples to illustrate topics. The way she teaches make her exams easy. I would absolutely recommend her. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL260 Grade Expected: January 25, 2011, 7:47 am | Professor Fontenot was engaging and interesting, however the class was way more work than it was worth. I was also attended all the classes and did all the assignments on time but could not seem to please the Professor. The class was overall really good, but became more of a time commitment than I had planned |
| Anonymous Course: BSCI105 Grade Expected: December 21, 2010, 2:14 am | Nelson was the best teacher for BSCI105. If you have to take this course make sure you get Nelson, and no one else. The exams aren't hard at all. I didn't study for any of them and I ended up with a B in the course. So, had I studied I might've gotten an A. He is such a nice professor too. He talks about his grandchildren and family alot; which is so sweet. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL101 Grade Expected: December 20, 2010, 11:32 pm | Professor Andrew Marsh, if you could even call him that, is maybe the worst teacher I have ever had in all of my years of schooling. The man has the worst social skills of anyone on the earth, and talks more like a mouse than a human being so its impossible to hear what he is saying in class. The result of this is 25 students either spacing out or playing on their computers. Even if you tuned in, nothing he says is valuable. His grading is extremely difficult and unwarranted, and usually has numerous spelling mistakes on his graded papers. He never graded anything on time, usually citing a lame excuse more expected from a 6th grade who forgot to do their homework than from a college teacher. What I am trying to say is I would rather take a 6 am English class than endure another class with Mr. Marsh. So, DONT TAKE HIM!!! |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: B+ December 20, 2010, 9:56 pm | Newman is a decent professor. I found that his lectures are dense and informative so taking notes is advised. He is not afraid to give you his own take on events that are relevant to the class. He will assign three main papers in his course. I found that he wanted certain things in each paper that were not listed in the syllabus. Try and get as much information as possible from him on these papers by asking him questions during lectures. |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: B December 20, 2010, 12:30 pm | The class is easy, but Hadler is so incompetent it takes a little work. Never in my life have I had such a horrible teacher who didnt even know how to use the microphone connected to her speaker system. Her incompetence is forgivable since you can get by with just reading the book, BUT her lack of concern for students is just outrageous. People like her should not be allowed to teach students. |
| Anonymous Course: PSYC100 Grade Expected: December 13, 2010, 4:04 pm | Smith is a HORRIBLE teacher..... Enough said. simply put. Well he's not horrible, but it's nearly impossible to do well in his class. Each test has like 6 or 7 chapters worth of information and no matter how much you study, there's always something on there that you won't get. Tests are worth the majority of the grade (81%) so if you don't do well on them, then you won't do well in the class. simple as that. TA's are wortheless, don't tell us nothing. Stupid e-book that we are required to have(that Smith wrote himself) doesn't even prepare us for the tests. His tests are made up of stupid analogies, examples, etc. I studied an entire chapter and it was only 1 stupid question on the exam. The tests are NOT evenly distributed between chapters like they claim it is.. Bottom line DON"T TAKE SMITH.. ps lectures are boring as hell! all he does it mumble over the mic. |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: December 12, 2010, 6:35 pm | This course was way too much work and extremely boring. We had to write one-page outlines on 2 chapters from the book, one chapter from an outside source and on 3 lectures, before and after the midterm. All together, that is 6 outlines, which take a lot of time to write and shorten to a page. There is a midterm, which was online but closed notes and book, and a final, which is in class. In addition to all of this, there was a 6-8 page "book review" on a boring 200 page book and we had to review three book reviews of the book. This was a waste of time and not helpful to any skills. As a core requirement, I highly recommend to NOT take this course, especially with Lapin. It is not worth any of your time. There is way too much tedious, unnecessary work, and it takes up way too much of your time |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: A December 12, 2010, 8:45 am | Professor marsh is a horrible teacher. He seems to know a lot about English but his way of conveying things is absolutely horrible. Everyone in the class started zoning out by the end of the first week. Bring a laptop to stop the slow death of boredom that follows from this class. He is monotone and always comes up with some excuse not to grade or put something off. He grades harder than he should for an English class, and when he does, doesn't review it. My freshman high school teacher taught me more than this guy. |
| asputman1 Course: ARTT200 Grade Expected: B November 30, 2010, 6:49 pm | The class itself would have been a lot better if not for Proff. Judy Stone. If you take this class DO NOT TAKE HER!!! I mean she's good if you like talking a lot without actually do anything. I felt like the course was more of an art theory course with engineering mixed in. I don't feel like we spent enough time actually doing things but spent too much time talking about stuff. Too much time talking about articles that we had to read. And her demos were WAY too long. She spent an hour talking about different types of glues...seriously. |
| jtaylor Course: BMGT230B Grade Expected: A November 29, 2010, 4:46 pm | Pretty Easy class but with moderately difficult tests. It is not a big deal to skip the lectures but you will fall behind, I would suggest going. Allowed a one page reference sheet for all exams. On second exam of the semester he gave a 17% weight. |
| Anonymous Course: CLAS170 Grade Expected: A August 26, 2010, 7:19 pm | This review is for Professor Scott Proffitt who teaches Clas170!! He is an amazing teacher, he attempts to make the course material interesting. Their is never a bland, dull moment in his class. If you have to take a HL credit and are looking for a class that won't bore you to death I recommend this class. His lectures are interesting, he grades fairly, and does everything in his power to ensure everyone does well. Awesome teacher!! |
| Anonymous Course: EDCI463 Grade Expected: May 26, 2010, 11:51 pm | basically, bacuss is a *****! However,no matter what you do, you will get an A-. Just show up and literally turn in something completed. The entire class is a joke. |
| Anonymous Course: THET290 Grade Expected: A December 30, 2009, 6:18 pm | Professor Nathans is a really engaging professor. Her lectures were always funny, which made going to class a good experience. My TA, Matthew, was also really good. There's not a whole lot of work; although there is some reading. You could definitely get away with not doing any reading other than the assigned plays. There are pretty much weekly quizzes that require very basic understanding of the readings and lecture. There was also one research paper. The two exams are in essay format. This is a fun class. I sort of wished it had been more in-depth and challenging, but it was always enjoyable. |
| Anonymous Course: PSYC361 Grade Expected: A December 28, 2009, 9:51 am | This class was very boring, and the teacher was kind of annoying. She tried to make things more interesting with class discussions, but with a 100 person class they were usually unsuccessful. There were 3 exams (all multiple choice) and a paper. Overall the class wasn't difficult but I wouldn't recommend it because it was just so dull |
| Anonymous Course: BMGT230 Grade Expected: December 13, 2009, 6:56 pm | Save yourself the time and stress. Don't take this class. I have absolutely no idea what grade I am going to get, her curve does make sense and neither does she. AVOID THIS CLASS BY ALL MEANS. Tests are not even that impossible, but they are calculation intensive problems that take more than 50 minutes. Everyone is failing because her tests are rediculous. She curves, but not enough. Get another professor for this class--it is an INTRODUCTORY class. |
| Anonymous Course: JOUR201 Grade Expected: B December 12, 2009, 7:31 pm | I had Ylan Mui/McClintock. She is AMAZING. I wish she was teaching JOUR320 also. She makes things fun/interesting (my other prof. were really boring) and gives good criticism and makes sure you won't make the same mistake twice. She is good with reviewing information and making sure you have your things right. She works for Washington Post and is very up to date with her info and her being. It's nice to see somebody so young, so successful. She's like an inspiration. TAKE HER CLASS!!! |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: A November 7, 2009, 9:49 pm | This review is for Professor Kellett's HIST329K class, History of Rock 'n' Roll. Offered summer and winter terms. Professor Kellet is nice guy, he wrote his doctoral thesis on British rock n' roll. How awesome is that? Great class, especially easy if you have taken MUSC205 already, it's basically the same thing. I took it as an elective but the majority of the other students were taking it to fulfill some requirement for their history majors. Two papers, two tests. The first paper was writing about a family member's taste in music and the second was about your own. The tests aren't bad at all, just a good amount of writing at the end. |
| hindubatman Course: ENME808A Grade Expected: F November 5, 2009, 11:00 am | This was my former advisor. I once got this email reply: This is terrible .. I high school student can do this in 3 hours Aren't you embarrassed??? And you send me two pages of unnecessary cover sheets .. haha . Also .. where is the paper on . Study of robust estimation in multivariate statistics for improved data-driven PHM. You must take this seriously .. you cost me over $30k per year .. and so far I got this .. I am not very happy ... please tell me what you want to do .. Michael Pecht, Ph.D. Director: CALCE Electronic Products and Systems George Dieter Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Applied Mathematics (prognostics for electronics) University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 USA |
| Anonymous Course: Grade Expected: A- August 21, 2009, 8:20 pm | This class was one of my least favorite to attend as a freshman. I literally read books during his lecture, because he has no visual aids and is very boring. He is very knowledgeable concerning his subject matter, but he also seems to be condescending. As with most history courses (I'm assuming?) the TA's graded the exams and papers for the class. If you get a good TA you'll be fine in this class. He expected you to do a good bit of outside reading, but if you skim it you can totally get by in the class. |
| nilakas Course: ENME320 Grade Expected: June 11, 2009, 3:00 pm | He is very good professor. His exams are fair |
| Anonymous Course: PSYC436 Grade Expected: A June 8, 2009, 5:54 pm | This class was awesome. No exams...2 papers, 2 quizzes and 3 homework assignments. Dr. Leiman is a great teacher. |
| Anonymous Course: ARTT110 Grade Expected: B May 28, 2009, 1:21 pm | Jeremey Flick was my teacher for ART 110 (Drawing 1). He is a horrible teacher, and definitely picks favorites. If you dont do well on the first project, he will look down upon you for the remainder of the class. He definitely favors girls over guys. He spends the beginning of class talking about emotion and some other pointless topics. And then at the end of the year he shows you his art, which is just painitings of blue lines,( no emotion at all) quite ironinc. Horrible art expereince. |
| reesecup122305 Course: MATH220 Grade Expected: April 29, 2009, 8:06 pm | Macasieb is by far the worst teacher I have ever had. She does nothing but write notes the whole class and most of the time she is making numerous mistakes. She explains nothing and I would suggest if you want to get a good grade, do not take her as a teacher. |
| heidtman Course: ENME350 Grade Expected: A December 19, 2008, 8:02 am | Dr. Bergbreiter is a young professor who has a high level of circuitry knowledge as it applies to the real world. Her course instruction was very good although her handwriting on the chalkboard is small at times. She handed out course reviews in mid-semester and made changes based on student feedback. I would recommend taking her for any course but you must want to put time in to learn the material. Her homework is meant to challenge you to develop a deeper understanding of the material. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL101 Grade Expected: C- December 2, 2008, 11:40 am | Mr. Jerome will trick you into thinking he loves what he does, and that he is a nice guy the first couple of days of school. And I guess in away he isn't lying, he love to break your soul and take points off your paper for he smallest things. Then he doesn't understand why nobody wants to get involved in his class, because he makes everybody feel stupid. He rarely ever tells you what you do right, but will not think twice about telling you what you did wrong. I don't think anybody in my class has got an A on a paper yet. If you want to be stressed out for a whole semester then go right ahead and take his class. |
| Anonymous Course: ENGL243 Grade Expected: A September 2, 2008, 10:42 am | Loved him to death. Seriously, such a nice guy, and he really wants the students to do well. Exams are easy. but you must go to class and discussion to do well. I highly recommend this course! |