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| 11/20/2008 | Lampros, Austin | STAT 204 | Austin Lampros is a flat out awful teacher. He fails at explaining concepts in class. He knows the content very well but does not have the ability to communicate it in a manner that people can understand. He also does not make an effort to change his teach style when people ask for help or it is clear people do not understand what he is teaching. He teaches his classes as you would teach a stats class to a stats major. The non stats major does not comprehend what he is saying. If you go in and ask for help he just says exactly what he said in class and sends you on his way.
Also watch out. He changed a quiz date and cancelled class and did not give anyone advance notice. The quiz was moved from the usual Friday lab session into Thursday's lecture to allow for Thanksgiving break. No advance notice was given to the students. I would suspect that most failed the quiz.
If you need to take STAT 204 avoid Lampros. However he is the only one that currently teaches 204. I would reccomend signing up for STAT 301 or talk to your advisor about what other stats classes you can take for fulfill that requirement and then take a section of thta class he does not teach.
The TA's that were TA'ing for STAT 204 were just as bad as Lampros. The three that I have interacted with could not have cared less. In lab sessions they were here is the quiz have fun. They did not attempt to clear up any questions or teach concepts a different way to increase understanding of the topic.
In the syllabus he says that tests, quizzes, and homework are completely different and that is a true statement. You cannot study for a test by reviewing the quizzes or the homeworks.
The book he had us purchase was solely for Aplia. Don't expect the book to help you study for tests or quizzes as his quizzes and tests are no where near the same. Aplia is also a joke. Aplia qustions are frequently wrong and then once the homework period in Aplia has to go back through and correct all of the mistakes in the questions. Also he assigns Aplia problems that do not even releate to what he teaches in class.
His grading scale is messed up also. After the C- thing went in effect he changed his grading curve to me a 73% a C. A "D" is 63% to 73% and a F is anything below 63%. In all of my years of school I have never seen a grading curve like this.
I think the stats department must have a grudge against the College of Business. That must be why they put such an awful teacher to teach the Business Stats classes. | | 11/20/2008 | Dickinson, Greg | SPCM 201 | Oh Dr. Dickinson. Seriously best teacher ever. amazing amazing. After class you just wanna sit down and talk with him about his life! take this class. its sweet. but watch out, you may or may not get a dry erase marker whizzing by your head to see if he can make in the trash can from the front of the room.
take this class. now. its like entertainment for your brain. | | 11/20/2008 | Erslev, Eric | GEOL 120 | Eslev, while he is a very smart individual, is maybe too smart to teach an intro level Geology class. I came into the class, knowing nothing about geology and he does not present the information in any clear sense to his students. Students in other intro geology classes have much easier tests and the lectures actually match up with what they are taught in lecture. I cannot follow his teaching methods and also keep in mind he does not give out a study guide for the tests. I was not at all happy with this class. Take a different class or get another teacher. | | 11/20/2008 | Shaner, David | MU 100 | This class was a joke. Shaner was never on time (although he expected us to be) and he gave really hard multiple choice tests. He tends to waste time in class and covers irrelevant things. Avoid him. | | 11/20/2008 | Dysleski, Lisa | CHEM 111 | I took this class as a freshman and it was really difficult for someone just coming from high school. But Lisa did a really nice job teaching and explaining the material to us. She encouraged us to come see her in her office hours and offered extra practice in weekly study sessions. She is a tough teacher and she expects you to take the class seriously and study! Really nice and willing to help you if you put in the work. | | 11/20/2008 | Jones, Chian | ECON 211 | If you are a male, don’t bother taking this course. The GRADING in this class is so overly BIASED(tests are essay questions) and there is no way to fight it. Unless STANDARDIZED TESTING is implemented after I graduate I would never recommend this class to any individual. | | 11/20/2008 | Yost, Courtney | SPCM 200 | This teacher is one of the best I have ever had. She starts of the semester really tough, but I believe that is just to establish athority(sp). She is willing to work with you on anything, and she is very kind. She does daily quizes to replace the mid-term. I like that a lot. She only has quizes on days that there are no speakers, though. She is very kind, and if you respect her she will respect you. She is easily top three on my favorite teachers list. Do not listen to these other people, they have no idea what they are talking about. | | 11/19/2008 | Modesti, Sonja | SPCM 200 | So, I didn't actually have her as a teacher for a class at CSU, but she is a body combat teacher over at the Pulse gym. She is by far the best instructor there, and gets everyone really into it. She tells us why we're doing a certain workout, and why the move is used (for example, when you would use a low block in karate etc). She is very high energy and I would totally recommend you take a class with her! | | 11/19/2008 | Burt, Deines | MGT 305 | Mr. Burton Deines could be the definition of the worst teacher at CSU. I would not even designate him as a professor because I feel I have more experience than he does (at 22) seeing how he managed a failed dinner theater, and now he is "director of operations" at a salon for his SISTER!!! He asks what motivates us to come to class in the motivation section of the lecture, and for me, I go to class so one day I do not have to manage a salon for my SISTER!! I do not understand how someone can get paid to have someone write the book for him, write the tests for him, and write the notes for him. He is the laziest man I have ever seen, or encountered. He'll tell you he's going to post your grades, and three weeks later he might actually get around to it. He offers weekly quizzes over the material, and cant find time in his busy salon schedule to write the quizzes so he'll just give you points. But for some reason I can find time to complete all my assignments, pull a 3.0, and work 2 jobs to put myself through school, and this is what I have to pay for? The dreadful thing is that I have to take this piece of work next semester for entrepreneurship!!!! good luck to anyone who has to take this lazy piece of s*** because it will be my third time!!! lucky me, i cant believe he still has a job. | | 11/19/2008 | Smith, Thomas | CBE 101 | Interesting guy to listen to, CBE 101 is pretty much a joke. I don't think that it was possible to get less than a B in that class. MATLAB is a pretty significant portion of the course, so be ready to learn that. It took him 7 weeks to grade our first lab write-up which everyone got A's on, it was stuff like that that made the class... interesting. | | 11/19/2008 | Ames, David | ANEQ 101 | This guy has it down!! Yes, he has the experience but for being such a "mature" professor, he seems to have never really acquired that crankiness that old professors sometimes do. Well, most days. You can't fail this class unless you do nothing because he's very clear about what to study. He takes the time to provide study guides, he'll change his teaching method, he provides a copy of his lectures, he makes it very clear what will be on exams and he provides appropriate practice for them in the form of homework and he's totally approachable. If he ever really retires, he'll be hard to replace. | | 11/19/2008 | Kipper, Matthew | CBE 102 | Dr. Kipper is a cool guy and does a good job preparing students for CBE 201. He has some pretty funny stuff to say and his class is a good overview of chemical engineering. | | 11/19/2008 | Patton, Carl | PH 142 | This guy is probably the worst professors I have had. The good thing is his grading system is rather proportionate. 20% clicker quizes, 20% HW, 20% Lab, 20% midterms, 20% final exam. I mean come on! 20% clicker quizes? Not mention you don't even have to take one of the midterms and you could still wind up with an A in the class. Don't expect a curve from him, (the TA's might curve the homework though) it says so in his freakin' 20 page syllabus. He would assign us the hardest problems from the book, but he could never actually solve them as his solution always proved to be erroneous. By the end some of the TAs were so pissed at him that they started assigning different homework. Besides that he was pretty demeaning to students, calling us kindergartners and such. ... what a joker. | | 11/19/2008 | Kaysen, Brett | ANEQ 286 | I'm very disappointed with this class because there isn't any educational basis to it whatsoever. I'm shocked that CSU allows such a lack of education to take place when the education is what students are paying for. I'm uncertain of Kaysen's teaching credentials but he uses absolutely no educational savy to conduct this class. And I say "conduct" because he doesn't teach. He lectures and that's about it. He calls assessments "mental exercises" because they can't be called assessments. He needs to be honest and call them what they really are and that is memory games. For "homework" he asks that students read a chapter and answer some questions just like middle school. It's called busy work-to keep the student busy doing something regardless of how much it's really helping him/her to master the material-and teachers who assign work in this manner do it because they either don't know what they're doing or are unprepared, being without valid, relevant homework exercises on hand that provide the practice that homework should. He relies way too much on an inexperienced TA who has even less of a clue than himself about how learning takes place. The main TA in this class seems to intentionally set students up for failure by attempting to design test questions, with no skill in test design at all, and then being very strict when correcting the questions if they aren't answered exactly and precisely as they should have been memorized, never taking into account that the material had no chance of ever being learned! For a student like myself who pays for my own education, studies a lot, gets pretty good grades and values learning experiences as preparation for future classes, this class has been really depressing because no matter how hard I studied I was unable to really do well. If you do not have to take this 2-credit class that Kaysen treats like a 3-or more-credit class, don't do it unless someone else is teaching it or Kaysen refreshes his teaching skills and gets a new TA.
| | 11/19/2008 | Toki, Walter | PH 141 | Toki was a pretty cool guy, and with a good understanding of Calculus this class is really easy. Mastering Physics sucks and takes a good amount of time to complete, even if you are really good at Physics. He can be really awkward in front of a large E100 crowd which is always good for a laugh or two. | | 11/19/2008 | Francois, Ronald | MU 100 | I hated this class. I went to class and usually paid attention... but it was hard because he was horribly boring. Avoid this class at all costs, and it isn't fun like it sounds. Unless you have to take this, don't. And if you do, don't take it from him. Crazy good musician, yes. good professor... not so much. | | 11/19/2008 | Mitchell, Ann | E 238 | I really liked her! yes I am a freshmen with only one semester behind me, but she was definitely my favorite proffessor so far. E238 was ALOT of reading, but she didn't give quizzes, because she is a very understanding teacher. there is ALOT of writing too, so if you hate english... don't take this. I am going to do my best to get her for CO 150, because i REALLY liked her! | | 11/19/2008 | Harvey, Ashley | HDFS 310 | I think ashley was a horrible teacher...I did not learn anything from her class...her lectures did not match the reading in the book!!! Her tests are extremely hard and she doesnt prepare you for what is actually on the test | | 11/19/2008 | Moore, Scott | POLS 103 | Fantastic professor! He really does a fantastic job showing his students how government works at the state and local level. You have to be willing to work hard and you MUST complete the assigned readings. If you work hard and talk to him when you need help you will leave the semester with an incredible amount of useful information concerning how the political system functions on all levels. | | 11/19/2008 | McQuillen, Michael | HIST 150 | I loved Mcquillen. He is a smart teacher but can be boring too. Make sure to go to class and write down all the notes (not available online) and do the study guide! The questions on the study guide are exactly the same on the test. The only negative part of class is the tests are fill in the blank. | | 11/19/2008 | Barisas, George | CHEM 107 | A very smart man, but not a good teacher. He sits in front of the class and just reads from the powerpoints. I would recommend not going to class since all of the notes are posted on ramct. The tests are hard, but whenever you do the homework - you get extra credit. And you get extra credit for your iclicker questions too. I would recommend not getting him as the professor. | | 11/19/2008 | Donovan, Ryan | HES 145 | SUCH a great teacher! I would recommend him to anyone taking HES 145. I always went to class. He posts the notes online but leaves blanks so you have to show up to class to get the blanks. The tests are pretty easy. I would study for the thirty minutes before class and get a B. He is also very funny, enjoyable, and one of my favorite teachers I have ever had! | | 11/18/2008 | Durand, Mark | MGT 301 | Ok, so Durand is horrible, this we all know. His weasly smirk and darting gaze may have convinced some that he was really a R.O.U.S. (rodent of unusual size). He wears socks under his Teva sandals and his oversized, untucked polo is constantly covered with a wafting later of yellow chalk. Some of you may recall how Ben Franklin first invented those special bifocal lenses back in 1784... Well he gave a pair to Durand as a bar mitzvah gift, and he wears them proudly. I got a B in this class because I taught myself everything, as Durand was too busy jerking off his own mother. Oh yes, I did say jerking off because his mother is a hermaphrodite, and her inherent inability to explain the subtleties of reproduction helped him to become a failure of a teacher. So thank you Durand, for absolutely nothing, you blithe cockroach of a man. | | 11/18/2008 | Durand, Mark | MGT 305 | Durand is hands down the worst teacher I have ever had. The class teaches nothing, and serves only as an opportunity for him to make up stories about how great of a business man he is...He should be fired, it is ridiculous that CSU pays him to provide what he does. Getting a good grade in the class is easy, but that is only because the content is such a joke, and doesnt have anything to do with him being a good teacher. The assignments are irrelevant busy work, and the tests cover material that is common knowledge to most. | | 11/18/2008 | Lupo, Jon | SPCM 342 | This class is pretty easy. It requires a whole lot of writing though..About 5 two page papers and then 14 episode responses 1-2 pages and then two projects. They are a lot of work but not hard. He is really nice guy and he will read over all your work before you turn it in if you ask him. Attendance is a big part of your grade so you need to go to class. | | 11/18/2008 | Gudmestad, Robert | HIST 346 | Professor Gudmestad is a great professor and knows alot about his subject. His class can be challenging for non-history majors with the amount of writing but if you work hard, you talk to him in office hours and you just keep on top of the work you can do fine. He's a great professor if you ever get the chance to take a class with him. | | 11/18/2008 | Shackelford, Charles | CIVE 450 | I feel I must defend one of the best professors in the college of engineering. He is indeed very challenging (compared to other civil professors) because he requires you to LEARN SOMETHING and WORK, not just regurgitate meaningless information or solve tedious problems. I have had him for CE450, CE455, and CE558 because he will teach you more in one class than the average professor ever could. I want to graduate with knowledge, not a list of easy bullshit classes that taught me nothing. If you are interested in Geotech, take him and study your ass off and maybe you'll get addicted like me. | | 11/18/2008 | Smith, Elin | MATH 141 | Elin was a wonderful professor. The best thing about taking calc with her is that she worked with the two other professors teaching the course so if you missed your assigned class you had a chance to catch the next one that day. She presented everything very clearly and was able to answer questions. She made the class very fun. Very good teacher, if youre taking this course, get Elin | | 11/18/2008 | Fitzhorn, Patrick | MECH 100 | Horrible | | 11/18/2008 | Fitzhorn, Patrick | MECH 100 | Biggest retard i have ever heard. Has some dumb ho grade his papers unfairly not even based on content. Never have this man as a professor. | | 11/18/2008 | Donovan, Ryan | HES 332 | He is HOTT! SMART, FUNNY, GREAT TEACHER, and A LOT OF FUN! I always wen to class becaues everything is soo interesting and he teaches you in a really great way. Also, he has review sessions before every test very helpful!!! This class is very easy if you pay attention he tells you what to study for the test and what not to as well as gives you a study guide. | | 11/18/2008 | Chamberlain, Theodore | NR 130 | If you need a class that's a GPA booster, this is one you could take. This class is very easy and as long as you do the essays and go to the review sessions before the test, you'll do fine. Also, make sure you go to as many classes as you can because there are pop quizzes that make up for a lot of your final grade. But they are super easy because they are only one question and they give you the answer. The only bad side to this class is that it is EXTREMELY BORING! I just read or listened to music the whole time and I still did fine. Biggest tip: go to the review sessions! The TA gives you all the info. you need for the tests and just studying the info she gave us gave me B's on the tests. | | 11/18/2008 | Yang, Raymond | HDFS 101 | I took HDFS 101 in hopes to actually learn something fun and interesting. Instead all I got was Yang talking about non-sense and rambling on about nothing. Taking this class with Yang actually made me question being an HDFS major cause the class was so mind numbingly boring! Luckily I stuck with it and I love my major now! I DO NOT RECOMMEND PROF YANG!!! | | 11/17/2008 | Berg, Marni | POLS 130 | Berg was not a good teacher. I'm usually the type of person who gives teachers the benefit of the doubt but Berg made it so hard to do that. She recites the information like she is showing off and is very biased when she gives you information. She also runs her class on a very memorizational basis and doesn't really show you how to apply the information she gives you. Her tests are really difficult and there are only 4 grades in the whole semester so you have to do well on all of them or you won't do well in the class. Also, I know this has been said before, but if you are a republican don't take this class. She spent the first few weeks of the semester bashing republicans and praising democrats and it was very hard for me not to come out of that class angry. SO...I would hope that you lean more towards not taking this class but if you feel you'd really like it then that's your choice. Oh, and get help from the teacher's aides because they are very helpful. One of them even taught class once and was way better a teacher than Berg ever was. Sad that he wasn't the teacher! | | 11/17/2008 | Anderson, Aaron | ECON 204 | Aron Anderson is not the best choice if you are going to take Econ 204. He presents the information well in class, and it is most of the time easy to follow when he knows what he is talking about. There are many times when he has no clue about what he is talking about and he will stand up there and try and figure out what he did wrong for 10 minutes or more. Dont ask questions in class because I can almost guarantee that he will not be able to answer it. | | 11/17/2008 | Lampros, Austin | STAT 204 | Austin Lampros is a Horrible teacher. If you do not have to take this class, don't, and if you do, hold off, and maybe someone else will teach it in the near future. Austin Lampros is unwilling to help. He talks his way around your questions in office hours, and don't try and ask questions in class either because he will make you feel stupid. As far as his tests go, they are very hard and usually have lots of questions about stuff he does not go over in class. Most likely the few people that gave him good reviews are either related to him, or stats just came naturally to them, because its impossible to LEARN stats from Mr. Lampros. | | 11/17/2008 | Mitchell, Ann | E 238 | Ann is the best teacher I have ever had. she cares about every one of her students and she grades very fairly. She tells you exactly what she is looking for when she is grading, and grades extremely fairly. Class was always fun and interesting and is very into listening what everyone in the class has to say. | | 11/17/2008 | Donovan, Ryan | HES 145 | THIS IS THE BEST CLASS!! take it to keep your sanity if anything.
He does such an amazing job at powerpointing. He actually knows the information because he executes his own information. He knows how to live a healthy life and has credibility and legitimacy to teach other people how to do so. He knows exactly what he is talking about- loves the big picture - doesnt like the book - gives hardly any outside work... and when he does, it is simple.
TAKE THIS CLASS - especially if you are still searching for a major, it may persuade you to do HES. do it do it do itt!! | | 11/17/2008 | King, Mariah | POLS 241 | The concepts in this class are rather hard to grasp, especially if you are not a political science major. professor king tries to teach her class in a conversational manner, but it backfires because the conversation goes nowhere. She does try, but she was stuck in a hard situation because she took over our real professor who left because she was pregnant. Therefore, i give her credit for trying. Her power points however are very vague and do not exactly cover the material she expects you to know..
read the material. and you will have a fair chance. or come to this class knowing a lot about politics and foreign countries. Its rough. Especially the tests. | | 11/17/2008 | Smith, Elin | MATH 141 | Elin is a wonderful teacher. If you have to take calculus I would definitely recommend taking it with her. She is a great teacher; she's very good at explaining concepts and always makes sure everyone understands everything. The class is made up of four test and quizzes. You can take the quizzes as many times as you want up until the due date though so you can get a 100. However, the tests are the majority of your grade but if you attend class, take the quizzes, and attend the study sessions held before each test you should have no problem getting an A or B in the class. Elin is awesome! | | 11/17/2008 | Cavalieri, Renzo | MATH 281 | This should not be a class offered to freshman. If you are a math major, don't listen to your advisor when they tell you this class would be "more beneficial" than the freshman seminar. The only way anyone can pass this class is if they have a math mind and i'm not talking about being good at algebra and calculus. I'm talking about you have to be high to understand the concepts in this class. Ex. What makes a set of numbers "countable"? PROVE IT! This is a BASIC MATH PROOFS class. And if you're thinking oh well i was good at proofs from geometry, this class is NOT that. trust me, geometry proofs were easy, but these proofs SUCK and there's no set way to construct them. you won't know where to start or end these proofs and it will just confuse the hell out of you. his teaching is horrible and he tries to explain things using pictures but they don't help at all. he gives group presentations, and odds are, you can spend a week on one problem and be up there presenting it and still not know how to do the problem. and going in to office hours doesn't help. i would reccommend anyone thinking about taking this class to reconsider taking the freshman seminar, trust me, it will be worth it. | | 11/17/2008 | Lampros, Austin | STAT 204 | Austin Lampros is a joke. CSU needs to find some better stats professors and TA's for that matter! I went to every class, ATTEMPTED to grasp the vague concepts that he wrote on his white board, and went to every recitation! All for a lousy stat credit, and a blow to my GPA. He knows what he is talking about, but strongly lacks the ability to relay that knowledge to students. STAT 204 with Austin Lampros is the equivalent of trying to eat cereal with chop sticks... ... very frustrating, and a waste of time. So if you have to take a Stats class, look out for Austin Lampros, or if you have to take his class, good luck. (Cause you are going to need it!) | | 11/17/2008 | Long, Michael | SOC 313 | Mr. Long was a great guy with an even better sense of humor..i would definately recommend taking a class from him | | 11/16/2008 | Schleiffers, Sandra | CS 110 | Schleiffers is a nice ol gal; all she wants is kids to do their stuff. It can be a very easy class, but sometimes tedious, but the tediousness will get you through the course with an A and help out your GPA. If you take this class don't f**k around an get a bad grade. She will help you understand the material if you ask her; like with most teachers, show respect and desire to do well, and life will be a little easier | | 11/16/2008 | Modesti, Sonja | SPCM 200 | Sonja is a cool teacher, she is really good at what she does, and will make the class more fun than most teachers can. She is very wild, and can sometimes talk too much about her personal life; if you have to take speech, take it with her! | | 11/16/2008 | Barisas, George | CHEM 107 | George is a good man, he explains things very thouroughly, sometimes he goes into too much depth for a simple explanation. He just goes off of his slides so going to class is only necessary if you cant read the notes and the material from the book yourself. Students give him a hard time, his class isn't that much fun, but he does know precisely what he's talking about | | 11/16/2008 | Auld, Garry | FSHN 150 | This guy is funny, he tries hard and likes his material. However, it is fairly hard to connect the notes with his tests. I have never missed a class, take good notes, and still got a 70%. Just be aware that sometimes a teacher and their notes don't coordinate with the tests very well. | | 11/15/2008 | Joseph, Figaro | POLS 131 | He is a great professor. His exams are damn easy. We didn't even have a final exam and in the third test, he allowed us open notes for the test. He will also give you loads of opportunities for extra credit. Even if you don't do very well in one of his tests (his tests mainly consist of 2 questions worth 10 points each), he gives you a chance to retake one of the questions but worth only 7 points. How cool is that? Besides, his lectures are also interesting and he shows videos once in a while as well. I would highly recommend him. | | 11/15/2008 | Chappell, Kelly | MATH 141 | She is an excellent professor. Her exams are damn easy as long as you know the basic formulas and the stuff that she taught in her lectures. This should be a definite and easy A even if you are weak in Math like I was. Besides the exams, there are quizzes which are also very easy and even if you don't know how to answer a quiz question, you can go to Kelly and ask her for help and she will help you solve the entire problem. Just a fantastic prof she is. Her lectures are also interesting not boring. I highly recommend her as i think she is one of the best professors in the entire CSU. | | 11/15/2008 | Crans, Debbie | CHEM 341 | Dr. Crans was probably the worst professor ever lectured for me. She knows nothing about convying the material and probably nothing about the material itself. She would explain to you a whole chapter in one or two lectures. She goes really slowly over easy materials, and really quickly over the hard parts and she does give you a lot of hard questions in the exams. If you would depend on her lectures and the notes she gives, you would absolutly get a D or F in her class ( that is unless you were super smart person ). If you have to take the class with her, then make sure you read the text- at least before the exam. |
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