Comments on: Hey Prof, Learn to Teach!

By: Inzaghi

Inzaghi — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:38:18 +0000

do not take jean meeks’ classes which are management 321 and sometimes BA453. she is unfair especially to minority students.
the only thing she did is to brag about herself in the class.
so guys, if you might have such classes. take an alternative one.
stay away from the “plague”

By: Vincent.

Vincent. — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:35:55 +0000

I enjoyed the one Cramer class that I took.

Most all of the professors I had in the History Department were great, even the ones I wasn’t really looking forward to. Dracobly is outstanding, and a nice guy to boot.

Had some fairly rotten philosophy professors, though

By: rightwingprof

rightwingprof — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:32:44 +0000

Some of us take teaching seriously, and put a great deal of work into our students. But not many.

By: Meghann

Meghann — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:07:36 +0000

William H. Baugh in the political science department was my least favorite, by far. The best was Lars Skalnes, though I think he’s department head now and isn’t teaching. The man is a genius.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:13:18 +0000

How about Jason Hartwig in the Poly Sci department? He’s a gtf, but man he can pit out a wool Christmas sweater and slurp Mountain Dew from a 2 liter like it’s nobody’s business.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:10:21 +0000

I actually had a Chuck Hunt class once, and he wasn’t bad. He was biased as fuck, but very clearly stated his biases at the start of the term so we could take them into account. By far the best teachers I’ve had have all been grad students or grad students who just graduated.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:30:04 +0000

Carl Bybee, hands down, worst professor ever.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:54:32 +0000

I nominate Baumgold and her pet Eric.

By: T

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:00:00 +0000

Chuck is an interesting dude. He’s pretty pro-gun; if memory serves me, he even used to make his own guns. He might be an interesting dude to profile.

By: Niedermeyer

Niedermeyer — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:12:05 +0000

Spoken like someone who just wrote for the Hate Issue!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:09:02 +0000

I prefer not to remember the bad things, but only focus on the positive and what good the University has done for me.

By: Josh M.

Josh M. — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:54:31 +0000

I can’t believe we haven’t heard Chuck Hunt’s name yet.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:37:28 +0000

Some folks have pretty poor learning skills, to be fair.

By: T

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:44:20 +0000

Cramer isn’t that bad. She’s pretty vocal about her kooky views, but I thought she was a relatively fair teacher. The Poli-Sci GTFs are pretty fucking insufferable and bad, however.

I’ve taken classes in pretty much every single department at this University and I’d have to say that the worst professors tend to be the writing GTFs. The worst classes I took tended to have political overtones, like “The Working Class Experience in 20th Cent. America”, which was one big circle jerk for unions. Journalism professors run the gamut in my opinion: There are some really great profs in that department, like Tom Wheeler and Bish Sen (you all should definitely take a Com. Studies class from Bish if you can — he’s hilarious and doesn’t accept the sort of simple-minded bullshit that masks itself as academic thinking), but the dept. also has some of the worst professors ever. I won’t name names, though.

By: Miles

Miles — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:33:34 +0000

Medler is in Canada now? I didn’t know that.

Has to be Cramer. She does nothing.

By: Niedermeyer

Niedermeyer — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:41:52 +0000

That was DeBevoises’ great redeeming quality… he didn’t want tenure, because he thought that publishing gets in the way of teaching in public universities. As far as a worst professor… I’ve mostly taken polisci since transfering here, but Ron Mitchell didn’t really do it for me, and Dylan Bennet was impossible to sit through (although he’s a GTF, not a prof). On the whole, the professors here are good, but you can tell who enjoys teaching and who doesn’t.