http://www.CourseReviews.com CourseReviews.com - Ohio State University - Columbus en-us Copyright 1997-2008 CourseReviews.com Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:10 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss dylan.feed@coursereviews.com (CourseReviews.com) dylan.webmaster@dylangreene.com (Dylan Greene) hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review44897/Strategy-implementation-is-toughbut-so-if-lifeExcellenet, well prepared and detail oriented professor. Shows his Ivy League charector by involving the class in an excellent discussion.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review44897/Strategy-implementation-is-toughbut-so-if-life#comments2007-02-05T20:39:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review44897/Strategy-implementation-is-toughbut-so-if-lifehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review43826/So-SoDr. Allen was adequate. Lectures were rather boring and it seemed that a lot of time was wasted in doing algebra on the board (which she sometimes did wrong). She was very willing to help during her office hours, though she kind of made me feel like a moron after asking what I thought was a ligitimate question. She was probably just trying to make sure I completely understood her answer, though. Her exams were pretty difficult but fair, but the quizzes were much easier than anything we ever saw on an exam, which, I felt, didn't really prepare us for the exams. We did have to turn in homework for the class for a completion grade. Overall she was just okay: not amazing, not terrible.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review43826/So-So#comments2006-03-23T22:51:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review43826/So-Sohttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review43095/I-had-a-95-on-quizzes-and-labs-and-still-failedShe may be an alien, she was so completely out of touch with the learning process of "humans" that I have no other explanation. I have talked to 10 or 11 others that have taken her Chemistry 121 class and 8 have failed it.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review43095/I-had-a-95-on-quizzes-and-labs-and-still-failed#comments2005-12-19T12:02:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review43095/I-had-a-95-on-quizzes-and-labs-and-still-failedhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review40093/Great-for-math-departmentThe best math teacher I ever had. Great lectures and reviews for exams, and he knew the best way to explain concepts. There was nothing bad about Bill Husen.noemail@coursereviews.com (zpbledsoe)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review40093/Great-for-math-department#comments2003-12-14T21:18:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review40093/Great-for-math-departmenthttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review37478/great-teacherProfessor carpenter makes you want to go to class. he has weekly online quizzes that are easy, but make you keep up with the reading. his lectures are awesome.noemail@coursereviews.com (chevyelky86)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review37478/great-teacher#comments2003-11-05T23:50:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review37478/great-teacherhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review28662/great-for-the-serious-studentAlthough Katja is now teaching at Maryland, I wanted to write a review in case any of her new students (or she is) are checking this site. I really liked Katja, and she thought she was a really nice person. She does assign a lot of reading, and she does expect a lot of info to be presented on the tests. However, she gave very thorough study guides and always gave a lot of feedback on tests and papers. I thought her grading was very fair. She is not the most energetic lecturer, but she is clear and easy to follow and she did use movies and media like cartoons and maps to help illustrate her points. Her readings, with one exception, were usually very interesting, and she made an effort to include different types of materials- ie short stories by dissidents, poetry, in addition to history texts. I found her very available outside of class, as well as very friendly and approachable. I would encourage anyone who serious about history to take her courses. If you are looking for an easy A, or don't really like history, you will probably be frustrated in her classes. She really teaches to serious history students who really want to engage the material.noemail@coursereviews.com (storm)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review28662/great-for-the-serious-student#comments2003-07-30T11:30:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review28662/great-for-the-serious-studenthttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review28661/Take-her-classesLynn Hegarty is an amazing professor and person. She has a ton of energy that she brings to class, and she really cares about her students. She is very compassionate about special/ extenuating circumstances, and tries to be available and approachable. She seems to love her job. She is an easy to fair grader. Our tests were take home essays, and she gave ample time to complete them, and had flexible topics and guidelines. I would highly reccomend her classes both to serious history students and to people who typically avoid history classes. She is fun, yet professional, knowledgeable and very gernerous with her time for her students.noemail@coursereviews.com (storm)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review28661/Take-her-classes#comments2003-07-30T11:19:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review28661/Take-her-classeshttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27919/Excellent-instructorExcellent grasp of the subject matter. Stimulates an interest in a difficult subject. Office hours were more than adequate. Labs were interesting and relevant to the course. I highly recommend this instructor for this course. Midterm was very difficult.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27919/Excellent-instructor#comments2003-07-02T15:53:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27919/Excellent-instructorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27917/Excellent-instructorVery personable. Encouraged class participation. I felt very prepared for the exams and quizzes. He let you know what to expect and what the most important concepts were for the course. Sense of humor and style of teaching made the concepts easier to understand.noemail@coursereviews.com (Robbi)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27917/Excellent-instructor#comments2003-07-02T15:40:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27917/Excellent-instructorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27168/Excellent-in-particular-since-the-author-is-not-shownThe other reviewer obviously did not understand the aim of the course, nor that correcting a wrong proof was deliberatly left as an exercise (this was a course about proofs)noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27168/Excellent-in-particular-since-the-author-is-not-shown#comments2003-06-04T15:31:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review27168/Excellent-in-particular-since-the-author-is-not-shownhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review23481/Great-professorI really enjoyed Professor Freuler's classes. I had him for both EG166 and EG168. I was impressed by how much he knows and yet he is teaching a freshman class. He is the associate dean of research or something like that at the OSU Aerospace research lab, and he has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and a CIS degree and maybe something else.noemail@coursereviews.com (FlyBoy)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review23481/Great-professor#comments2003-02-12T23:24:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review23481/Great-professorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review20257/Needs-improvementDr. Zahniser has a great personality, and is probably a fun guy to be around outside the classroom. However, in his 48 minutes lectures about half of that time, if not more, is spent with him senselessly trailing off with stories that often have no relevance to the subject material at all. This teacher seems more intent to appease the students that teach them. Course study guides were added late and were very lacking, powerpoint slides were next to useless as they often has little to no information on them besides pictures.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review20257/Needs-improvement#comments2002-12-01T15:15:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review20257/Needs-improvementhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19968/Terrible-Just-terribleProf. Liu is the worst teacher I have ever had. Ever. He is very difficult to understand in lecture because his accent is heavy, he mumbles, and he speaks looking at his shoes. His tests were totally random. They covered material that we hadn't gone over in class and hadn't been assigned to read. He would just pull statements from chapters in the book and expect you to know whether they were true or false. This class was so frustrating. There was no good way to prepare for a test because he might test you over anything, whether or not it had ever been mentioned. On the final, you had to recreate a diagram from a section in the book that hadn't been covered. Taking notes is a pain. He doesn't use overheads except for transparencies of diagrams from the book. Bring some caffeine with you so you can stay awake, IF there's no way you can avoid taking a class from him. Oh - and don't let me forget to mention office hours. I never tried to go, but a friend did, and he wouldn't let them in the door unless they had a "good" question. And our grader lived in Indianapolis. The homework didn't apply to the lecture and was too long.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19968/Terrible-Just-terrible#comments2002-11-20T20:12:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19968/Terrible-Just-terriblehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19967/A-waste-of-time-and-boringGurari is one of the most boring teachers I have had. His accent isn't great and he mumbles. The lectures were pointless - you could leave after 20 minutes and not miss anything. The one project was decent, but he was not knowledgable about the technology we were using, so he couldn't answer questions that people had. Overall, not difficult, but not worth your timenoemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19967/A-waste-of-time-and-boring#comments2002-11-20T20:01:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19967/A-waste-of-time-and-boringhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19966/One-of-the-better-teachers-Ive-hadThis class was a lot of work, but not anywhere near as bad as 560. I really learned a lot from the labs, and I think that's the point. The tests were a little hard. He's easy to understand - just gets off topic every once in a while.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19966/One-of-the-better-teachers-Ive-had#comments2002-11-20T19:49:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review19966/One-of-the-better-teachers-Ive-hadhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review18530/horribleProf. Berger, in my opinion, was one of the worst professors I've had. Here are the reasons why: 1. I think his lectures sucked. Always off track, and left me wondering what the crap I was supposed to get out of this. 2. He postponed the date/time for one exam 3 weeks...right before the final on a DAY TO DAY basis. Normally postponing a test is such a big deal, but 3 weeks, and right before finals really screwed me up. 3. I walked into his office DURING office hours, and was asking him questions. He was very distracted, so I asked him if this wasn't a good time for him...wasn't this his office hour? "Yes, but I didn't think anyone would come." The bottom line was that he was busy working on his research proposal. What really pissed me off is that the entire time I was talking to him HE DIDN'T ONCE LOOK UP FROM HIS STUPID COMPUTER.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review18530/horrible#comments2002-09-06T02:08:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review18530/horriblehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17803/Great-teacher-and-engineerGreat guy. He is the Franklin County Engineer by day and teaches in the evenings. He knows his stuff because he lives and works in the real world (unlike other engineering and surveying professors). He is very fair but is not around campus since he works of the county. His projects are well thought out and very interesting. Surveyors have to take him but other engineering students could do worse for a technical elective.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17803/Great-teacher-and-engineer#comments2002-07-19T22:40:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17803/Great-teacher-and-engineerhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17802/Avoid-him-if-you-can-and-bring-a-Gameboy-if-you-can8217tThis professor is one of the most uncaring and unmotivating teachers in the College of Engineering. He is solely focused on his research and cares little for undergraduates or teaching. His English is marginal at best. His slides and lecture materials were riddled with errors and confusing. He was only interested in plastic injection modeling and gave the impression that all other branches of engineering and science were at best trivial in comparison. His lectures were dismal and mind numbing. Had it not been for the teaching assistant and the laboratory supervisor the class would be a complete disaster. Avoid him if you can and bring a Gameboy if you can’t.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17802/Avoid-him-if-you-can-and-bring-a-Gameboy-if-you-can8217t#comments2002-07-19T22:22:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17802/Avoid-him-if-you-can-and-bring-a-Gameboy-if-you-can8217thttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17501/Good-but-not-greatAn average teacher. Pretty good if you want an easy way out of Acct 212. He is pretty wishy-washy on grading and is very understand though. Lectures tend to be boring, but practice problems given in class helps alot.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17501/Good-but-not-great#comments2002-07-02T15:51:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17501/Good-but-not-greathttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17130/Lazy-and-dumbMs. Zando is the course coordinator of this course, not the actual section teacher. However, her mismanagement of the course if pretty egregious. The lab manual is absolutely ridden with errors and the lab assignments (which she wrote) do not correct these errors so they are pretty hard and overly time-consuming to complete. I only got through them because I had a close friend really good at computer science. The exams are more fair, but that is because our TA would help us out before them. I have heard she is a very disagreeable person to approach from both my fellow students and the TA in our class who said she does not feel a need to fix the errors. I figure she must just be extremely mean and lazy.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17130/Lazy-and-dumb#comments2002-06-08T17:47:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review17130/Lazy-and-dumbhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review16515/Professor-Long-does-a-wonderful-jobProfessor Long was great! He is one of the most enjoyable professors in the CIS department. He's a very funny guy and he does a great job explaining things in class. Outside of class he's just as funny and very helpful. I hope I can have him in class again!noemail@coursereviews.com (hurleystylee)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review16515/Professor-Long-does-a-wonderful-job#comments2002-05-14T00:52:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u1798/review16515/Professor-Long-does-a-wonderful-job