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As of 4:50:22 am, Saturday, September 4, 2010, RamRatings contains a total of 11570 evaluations on 2075 professors with 2 new evaluations in the last week. The following evaluations were recently added to the database.

09/01/2010	Fruhauf, Christine	HDFS 312	She is an awesome professor! So nice and very, very willing to help students outside of class. She does everything she can to make sure you will do well in her class. One of the best professors I have ever had!
08/27/2010	Diffrient, David	SPCM 455	Diffrient is an extremely kind, professional and knowledgeable professor who has tremendous passion for his subject and for teaching. He really values class participation and the contributions that students make though it may initially seems as though he's more lecture-based than discussion-oriented. I would absolutely recommend him as a professor. The one point of difficulty or frustration I encountered was a segment of the tests that asked what I would consider "trivia" questions-- where was Hitchcock born, what was his wife's name, what year did Kubrick make his first film, etc. Super-specific stuff that it was difficult to really study for.
08/27/2010	Butters, Gregory	SOCR 347	Amazing teacher. Everyone should take one of his classes if you can fit it into schedules. He keeps the class engaged and tells great stories. My favorite teacher yet. The Soil Physics class is challenging, but he gives problem sets that really help to explain the material. He also uses handouts that are very useful to have as a reference.
08/27/2010	Coleman, Robert	NR 319	'Nuff said. He freakin rocks
08/27/2010	Knight, Richard	NR 420	He is a horrible teacher. He just talks and talks about nothing important except how he was a marine and use to own cows. And then he starts to cry. God, it is so annoying. And he comes within inches of your face and puts his leg up on the table, and with those tight rancher pants he has to wear...this is NOT pretty. Worst teacher I have ever had, I have no idea why everyone thinks he is so great.
08/25/2010	Zahran, Sammy	SOC 100	I had Professor Zahran in my first semester of college and still haven't gotten over how much I disliked him. At first, he seemed really cool and engaging, but he was really self-centered. He talked about how hot his wife was and how good his hair was and went on tangents all the time during class. I found him hard to follow and frustrating to take notes from. He often put people down or made fun of them if they raised their hand with what he thought was a dumb question or the wrong answer to a question he asked. I thought he was immature and annoying and needed to try more teaching and less hamming for laughs. I wouldn't recommend him.
08/23/2010	Bubar, Roe	ETST 352	Prof. Bubar is one of the most inspiring women I've ever met. Her classes are challenging in the best possible way, and you will come out of them with so much more knowledge (while also maybe feeling like you have a whole bunch more to learn). She really takes a personal interest in her students. Her classes can be interesting, lively, challenging, heart-wrenching, etc. She makes you challenge your biases and tendencies on a personal level, as a group of students working together in a classroom, and in interaction with the material. I would say that you would be doing yourself a disservice to not take a class from her during your time at CSU.
08/23/2010	Mackenzie, Matthew	PHIL 360	Dr. Mackenzie is one of the greatest assets to the philosophy department at CSU. The department is swarming with highly intelligent individuals, but often their organization skills and ability to hone in on points through personal and class thought tangents, lacks greatly. Mackenzie is the master of bringing diverse perspectives, ideas, etc. into focus to have cohesive yet interactive and adaptive class sessions. He is extremely knowledgeable about Eastern philosophies and does a great job of making these ideas accessible to the Western mind. The department is lucky to have him as a professor, and you would be as well, so I highly recommend taking his class.
08/23/2010	Stanhope, Shelby	MATH 141	Shelby was fabulous and made Calculus interesting. As long as you did the homeworks and followed along in lecture, it would be nearly impossible to not do well in the course. She was always more than willing to help or answer questions. I would highly recommend her class to other students.
08/23/2010	Sullivan, Julie	ET 100	OMG - she is awesome, i love this professor, but do the reading. she is the best professor i have had at csu.
08/22/2010	Grossman, Jeremy	CO 150	Best teacher EVER! He knows it sucks learning about speech but he made it fun! 5 speeches I think and I got an easy A on each! He is not a hard grader! There is also easy quizzes every 3 weeks I'd say! LOVE em! Yay Jeremy! I wish he taught more!
08/22/2010	Mckita, Richard	PHIL 103	EASYYYY class. The teacher decided to change up the style of class, and man, what a great idea that was. There were quizzes 2-3 times a week, and it was on the reading you did the night before. You could use notes, and I would ALWAYS get 4 or 5 everytime. There were 3 papers which were also pretty easy and I ended up with a high A in the class. His teaching sucks, but I went to class just for the quizzes. HIGHLY recommend.
08/22/2010	Walrond, John	BMS 300	He knows what he is talking about! I had to repeat this class because I did not know how hard it was going to be. You NEED to go to class! Also, bms 200 helps greatly. I would recommend getting the test files as well. He is SO great at helping your needs, but the best way to do well in this class...If you can explain the processes to another person, you'll do great! Hard class; put a lot of time in it!
08/22/2010	Billings, Amanda	CO 150	By far the absolute WORST teacher I've had in my entire education experience. Amanda based grades heavily on attendance, which was a very difficult feat in itself because going to the class and sitting through her lectures is torture. The classes are extremely strict- even reaching into your bag to pull out a pencil she would stop everything so she could call you out on getting out your cell phone. The class goes over grammar and writing structure one typically learns in early middle school, and it's taught the same way. It was a pain to attend, she has a distasteful sense of humor, she's very unforgiving and holds grudges over students who upset her. She goes out of her way to fail you for anything she even suspects of being plagiarized without giving you a say, and doesn't cut you any kind of slack or give you make-up opportunities to salvage your grade even if you constantly go in to talk to her one on one. She's very difficult to communicate with and has a tendency of going back on her word. She knows about composition, but she is unable to communicate and she's not a good person to be teaching, especially at a college level- she takes things too personally no longer making it a teaching experience but a phycological game for her students to figure out. Do Not Take this class with Amanda- take it with Any other composition teacher, or postpone it till another semester if you have no other option. Amanda is hardly worth the money for the class, and provides an extremely poor 'college experience'.
08/21/2010	McArthur, Kelly	MATH 369	If you're enrolled to take a class with this professor, switch immediately. She can't teach whatsoever. She talks to the board, makes countless mistakes, and can't figure out where they were. It practically turns into the class teaching her the material. Don't expect to get any solutions from the homeworks from her. She is a hardass grader and expects perfect solutions--above and beyond anything she can do, at least in lecture. All these other reviews about her I'd have to agree with 100%. I withdrew from 369 because I was taking too many hours last year. I went from a "favorite" to someone she constantly gave the cold shoulder to, even though she knew why I dropped. This lady is completely nuts.
08/20/2010	Stanhope, Shelby	MATH 141	Great teacher! Really envolves the class and asks frequently if anyone is having any problems. Very willing to help if you don't understand the material in class or in office hours. If you go to class, ask her for help when needed, and do the online quizzes(which you could take an unlimited times until you got a 100), I think it would be impossible to get a bad grade in this course.
08/19/2010	Bates, Daniel	MATH 366	Dr. Bates was a great professor. He tailored the class to meet the needs and wants of the students (he asked for input), but also taught all the material we needed to know. He followed the book, but also interjected different aspects from his work to try and make the class more interesting and easier to connect with. When he was out of town he brought in guest lecturers that would talk about their own work or just interesting things that we would find helpful. The guest lectures and talking about his own work really made the class interesting and worth taking; he takes a difficult and boring subject and makes it fairly easy to connect with. His grading was down by a grad student who was fairly strict, but the grading was fair and Dr. Bates was open to taking questions if there was a possible issue with the grading. Tests were take-home, but fairly difficult. They would take and average of 5-6 hours to complete, but they were reasonable and covered the material that he taught.
08/19/2010	Mostafa, Miguel	PH 142	Miguel couldn't have taught this class any better. His grading was lenient and he gave extra credit questions on homework. His grading on tests was just as easy, you needed only 12 out of 15 questions right to get a 100%. That being said though, this was not an easy class and you have to pay attention and do all the work if you expect to do well; you will get the grade you deserve and work for.
08/19/2010	Carolan, Michael	SOC 220	Dr.Carolan is one of my most favorite professors. Even though this class has nothing to do with my major, I learned a lot of valuable information that is applicable to the real world. The work lot in this class is basically nothing... especially if you attend lectures. He posted his powerpoints on ramct, but you definitely should still take notes because a lot of his exam questions aren't directly from those notes. Another reason why you should attend lecture is he will give you answers directly from the exam on random days. On days when he shows movies, jot down a few notes because material from the movies apperars on every exam. If I ever have a chance to take a class with him, I will not hesitate! I highly recommend this class, especially if you are randomly exploring your interest in the environment.
08/19/2010	Bjostad, Louis	LIFE 102	Dr.Bjostad is an excellent professor. Though at times his lectures were long and boring.. it is to be expected (after all it is a biology class...) He was very knowlegable and it was clear that he had a passion for biology (bugs to be specific). Also, he tried to make his class a bit less excruciating. He played a song at the beginning of each lecture while everyone was getting situated, and then he would give a snack to whom ever could identify it correctly. He made a few jokes, too. I would take another class with him.
08/19/2010	Nobe, MaryEllen	IU 170	Dr.Nobe had three huge weaknesses: she was unable to engage/ identify with her students, unable to communicate effectively, and she showed little to no interest in teaching and/ or being at our class. The work load was not a lot, but expectations for the homework were very poorly presented. Often projects were assigned just a few days before they were due. I would not take another class with her.
08/19/2010	Maple, Jennifer	MATH 340	Stay Away, no really, stay away, run, do not walk... Out of an 8 week summer semester, it took 4 weeks for her voice to go from an unintelligible mumble to a barely audible whisper. Her lecture consists of a exact regurgitation of some other instructors notes and when asked about a particular part of a topic often the response is something along the lines of "That is from section x.x" with no additional explanation or expansion of the idea or concept/discipline... I don't recommend this instructor even if you find yourself in a must-take situation. If you can't overcome the situation and are in fact truly forced into taking a class from her, don't bother with the lectures, spend the time with a study partner and use The Khan Academy on YouTube (Diff EQ and Linear Algebra channels), while not a perfect match topic for topic, you WILL learn more there in several 10 minute videos than a week of her lectures... Good Luck!
08/19/2010	Fry, David	JTC 211	I took JTC 211 from David over the summer. People had told me that summer classes were easier than fall/spring classes. They were right! Fry was a grad student when I took his class, and he did an excellent job. I've had better teachers, but most of them have been doing it much longer. He does a great job teaching and if you have the time, take his class.
08/19/2010	Cada, Chryss	JTC 210	Great teacher. Great attitude. Great Class. Absolute love Chryss. Take any class she teaches if you get the chance. Love her. She made a class at 6pm twice a week so much better.
08/19/2010	Logsdon, Lola	ART 100	Lisa is a great teacher, you just have to be willing to work. The class is a lot of material to take in, but if you go to class and study from the study guides she gives you notes for, you'll be fine. Be sure to read the sections she gives you every night, you'll do fine.
08/19/2010	Callahan, Gerald	MIP 101	Easy class. Go to the study sessions and the lectures and you'll do great. He also offers a few extra credit papers and even some free passes (he gave us all 3 points each for showing up one day when there was horrible weather!). If you have the chance, take his class. He's knowledgeable and entertaining.
08/18/2010	Sholders, Aaron	BC 351	I know that a lot of people say that chemistry is a weak point of theirs, and that Dr. Sholders was great at making a chemistry class fun, but it's absolutely true. I have never liked chemistry or found it particularly easy, but I was pleasantly surprised at how interesting and even fun the class was, and it's all because of the way Dr. Sholders taught the class. Furthermore, he was so flexible and approchable that I felt so comfortable asking him any question I had. I would absolutely highly recommend him and this class to anyone!
08/18/2010	Mister, William	ACT 321	Test's somewhat reflect what you've learned, but overall count on your homework to give you a good grade in that class. There is no excuse not to get a 100% on the homework because he GIVES you the check figures so you can make sure you are doing your homework correct. If you pay attention 80%, at best, there's no reason to not walk out with a B in the class. Overall his tests are unfortunate because although he lets you make a cheat sheet ( YOU MUST ASK FOR ONE, he won't tell you, but he should give you one if you ask). Cheat sheet never helped so i would recommend writing some vocabulary terms that are from the chapters, a few problems fully worked on your cheat sheet, and some weird formula/chart stuff you'll notice during class sometimes...Idk this class was a big mess but if you can sort through his mess you should do fine. It's not that "hard"
08/17/2010	Steingraeber, David	BZ 120	he's pretty funny, I'll give him that and there can be no question that he's really into plants. so am i. but i hated the class. his lectures were completely monotonous (i have never had a problem with falling asleep in class before), only makes sporadic notes that are hard to understand when you look at them again at home and is completely behind the times when it comes to technology. while his using actual slides to show pictures was kind of enduring, not having grades, notes, and course material available online was a pain in the ass. and i definitely felt like the tests were just memorizing the questions from the old tests and didn't really test your understanding of the material.
08/17/2010	Raines, Karen	BZ 110	I really enjoyed the class with her. There was a lot of memorizing but if you put some effort into understanding concepts rather than just defining the terms from the study guide you'll learn easily and won't forget everything after the final exam. she also was really fast with putting up slides, grades, etc. and stuck with the outline she gave at the beginning of class.
08/17/2010	McKee, Patrick	PHIL 436	Hilarious, hilarious man. Pat McKee is easily the best philosophy teacher I have ever had. Hate to say it, but many professors at this level are pretty proud of themselves (read: high horse) about their status...not McKee. He is willing to tell you if he has absolutely no idea what you're talking about ("I don't know, I just work here") and always tries to give students the benefit of the doubt. This was easily one of the hardest classes offered in my major, but just coming to class to hear the lectures earned me an A-...Why A- you ask? Tests are graded pretty easy, but papers...watch out. Bottom line, he gives a sh*t, which is unfortunately so rare in academia these days.
08/16/2010	Guardiola, Ginger	HIST 311	BEST PROFESSOR EVER! she is the best history professor at CSU and CSU is stupid for having "non-tenure track" profs and Dr.G is one of them. Unfortunately, CSU will most definitely lose her if they haven't already. I took all her Medieval courses as well as her Western Civ course. Never missed a day of Medieval England which is by far the most mentally orgasmic class of all time. I noticed she wasn't in FALL 2010 Course Schedule and neither were any Medieval courses!!!!!!!! What's up CSU!?!?!?!!? Thank God I graduated when I did because it looks like CSU is lending the Middle Ages the nickname the "Dark Ages" again as they go from the Roman Republic to the Tudors/Modern France....I hope Dr. G comes back for the sake of the Middle Ages because she truly will blow you're fricking minds :)
08/16/2010	Guardiola, Ginger	HIST 310	Ginger is a great professor. Her best attribute is her excitement about Medieval history, she really loves the period and she loves teaching it. It's nice to see someone who really enjoys her work, unlike some professors I've had in my college career. I never had her for any survey courses, so I can't comment on those. But her upper-level lectures are great. She knows the material, she keeps classes pretty diverse and interesting, and she uses a variety of evaluation methods, like quizzes, discussions, exams, essays, etc. If you are really interested in Medieval history and willing to actually do your reading, show up to class and add relevant comments to discussions, then you'll enjoy her classes, and you'll do fine.
08/15/2010	Valdes, Jose	CIS 200	Very b-o-r-i-n-g! He just cannot relate to the student. He gives endless amounts of boring, useless information not even necessary to the class/curriculum. He even tell you it's not required for the test, yet he drones on and on. Have never fallen asleep in class before, but did in his class. Finally just quit going to class. Didn't learn anything here. Total waste of my time.
08/15/2010	Kasser, Jeffrey	PHIL 103	Kasser is an absolutely fantastic professor - his class was extremely stimulating and challenging. If you're taking phil 103 - ATTEND CLASS. Skipping out on the lectures will most definitely leave you with a less-than stellar grade. The tests can be kind of rough and require a lot of writing. He doesn't let you know what's on the exam except for "what's he's covered" so while it may seem like you're going in blind, make sure you do the reading (twice!), take extensive notes on what he says, and ask lots of questions, and you'll do fine in this course.
08/13/2010	Magloughlin, Jerry	GEOL 120	Jerry Magloughlin is an excellent teacher. I took GEOL 120 over the summer (along with GEOL 121). We covered an amazing amount of material, the class was a lot of work, and I can honestly say that I enjoyed each and every session. It's refreshing to have a science teacher who respects science.
08/13/2010	Hamid, Idris	PHIL 171	Dr. Hamid was one of the best teachers I've taken classes from. He is one of the most knowledgeable and interesting teachers in the department, especially about Islamic philosophy and mysticism. There is a lot of note-taking, lecture, and complicated concepts, but if you do the reading and try to understand the notes and the lectures, you can do well. Despite being a great teacher, he is not an easy teacher. You will do much better if you at least do the reading so if he calls on you, and he does put people on the spot if no one else responds, you at least have something to say. He really enjoys working with students outside class if you are having trouble and if you ask questions, do the work, and show him that you are at least putting forth the effort, he will be more generous than to those who don't come to class, don't do the reading, and don't care as much.
08/11/2010	Clapp, Tod	BMS 345	Dr. Clapp's lectures were really straight forward and actually stressed the FUNCTIONAL characteristics of different brain regions. He also went over the clinical symptoms of damage and deficits, which is really helpful for anyone interested in going into the medical field. It was really clear what information he considered important and would test on, so there weren't any questions on the test that you couldn't get if you went over his lectures. Overall really enjoyed his portion
08/11/2010	Snodgrass, Jeffrey	ANTH 100	Great professor! His class was based on case-studies, not anthropological methods. We learned about anthropological methods and so forth via studying different cultures--everything from the !Kung bushman to modern-day World of Warcraft users. We had a lot of different textbooks, and a lot of reading, but it was all very interesting. Many of the lectures were centered around Snodgrass' own field work around the world--he really knows what he is talking about.
08/11/2010	Moseman, Eleanor	ART 111	Moseman is an okay professor. In some of the units, I felt like she didn't really know her stuff---you could tell it wasn't her strong point (she said that she specializing in modern art, and this course was Byzantine to Baroque). She spent a lot of time asking the students to say what they thought whereas I though she should have spent more time lecturing more in-depth instead of always asking the student's opinion on things. Her lectures could have been more fast-paced if she didn't stop every few minutes to ask us our opinion. Her tests were strange and hard to get used to. You do not need to know dates at all. Study a LOT and you will do okay. She was very willing to help outside of class--take advantage of this!
08/11/2010	Fenton, Michael	ART 110	Awesome professor! Extremely enthusiastic, makes the material hella interesting.
08/11/2010	Mckita, Richard	PHIL 103	McKita is an interesting professor, with a "mad scientist" personality (the long wiry hair and unkempt beard help the image). The class was fairly easy as long as you did the reading assignments each night. Class time mainly centered around class discussion of the previous night's reading. We had 4 writing assignments where we were supposed to discuss and defend our own viewpoint on the unit's topic, using previous philosopher's ideas/concepts as support. The first essay, I pretty much just regurgitated the text and got an A. The second time, third, and fourth times I actually thought through it more and had more planned, introspective essays and got Bs for each one. The TA grades them, not McKita. On one of the essays, the comments that the TA wrote on my paper pretty much implied that she took off points because I didn't agree with her opinion on feminism. So, just be a robot and you will get an A on your essays.
08/11/2010	Knight, Richard	NR 120	This class was okay---Knight brought in a LOT of guest speakers, which was great. The lectures were always super interesting whenever we had a guest speaker, but tended to get pretty boring when it was Knight himself lecturing. You could tell he was passionate about what he does, but he sort of treated us like we weren't very smart and watered everything down a lot. He said this was his first time teaching freshmen, so I'll give him some leeway. Tests and homework were very very easy. He offered so much extra credit that I don't understand how anyone could not get an A in this course. We covered some interesting material, especially with the guest presenters, but I wish it were a little more in-depth.
08/11/2010	Zahran, Sammy	SOC 100	Awesome professor! I didn't think I would like this class, but he made it really interesting and a lot of fun! The class had an appropriate work load---was moderately challenging but super interesting. Zahran was really engaging and willing to help students out of class.
08/10/2010	Dumitrescu, Olivia	MATH 229	good class
08/09/2010	Magloughlin, Jerry	GEOL 120	Contrary to many people here, I enjoyed Prof Magloughlin. I am a non-science person, but ended up enjoying the class. To be sure some details on tests were nit-picky (and the occasional "trick question" though those are mostly ensuring you read them carefully), but the class kept me engaged and interested. The assignments were appropriate to the material, and presented interesting views I wouldn't have thought of myself before. During and after the class, I found myself looking at the world through the eyes of geology more and more, seeing things I hadn't known before. So long as you are respectful of Dr Magloughlin, he'll respect you. I would take classes of his again any day.
08/08/2010	Bjostad, Louis	LIFE 102	To you guys that are taking life 102 I would STRONGLY RECOMMEND Dr.Bjostad he's a really good teacher that wants to see you succeed. He always starts that class with a song and while some of the songs are a little weird it is still a good way to start out the class. Also his grading system is pretty lenient. A couple of problems with his class is all of you grades from the lecture portion of the class comes straight from the test, so if you are bad at test you will have to study but some of questions on the test come directly out of the text. And his lecture is almost directly out of the test book so if you what to miss one or two lectures all you have to do is read the text and you'll be fine.
08/08/2010	Maple, Jennifer	MATH 340	Do not take any class with this instructor. she doesn't understand the material itself to teach it for other. She was writing on the board all the time.(more word and less math literally). when you asked her a small question about one topic, she wrote the whole lesson again!!!. basiclly , she doesn't have the ability to teach the material at all. So, if you found yourself in her class,prepare yourself for selfstudy!!!!.
08/07/2010	Aberle, Jennifer	HDFS 332	Great teacher, i think everyone else has covered the basics. if you have the chance, take a class with her.
08/06/2010	Mckita, Richard	PHIL 110	This was a very enjoyable class. "Rick," as he likes to be called, is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic instructor. The textbook lays out the concepts very clearly, and is definitely necessary. At the beginning of the semester, he lets you know that attendance is not mandatory, except on exam days. While this is true, I felt like he had a tendency to be a little easier on the people who showed up every day- as in, maybe grading their assignments a little easier, and being more understanding when it came to personal issues/difficulties. His notes are not flawless, and most of them were not presented in such a way as to be helpful to ME, with my particular learning style. Maybe others would find them more useful. All tests are 35 questions, multiple choice. He grades on a curve which is nice. Basically an easy A, but not completely effortless. You'll need to do the work, but it won't kill you. I recommend Rick McKita, and would happily take another class from him.