http://www.CourseReviews.comCourseReviews.com - University of Wisconsin - Stouten-usCopyright 1997-2008 CourseReviews.comFri, 22 Aug 2008 05:48 ESThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssdylan.feed@coursereviews.com (CourseReviews.com)dylan.webmaster@dylangreene.com (Dylan Greene) hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review43731/WonderfulShe is very smart and does an excellent job with constructing and delivering her classes. She is also incredibly hot.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review43731/Wonderful#comments2006-03-01T15:21:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review43731/Wonderfulhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38475/Moonlights-as-an-auctioneerThe only bad thing I can say about Pete is that he talks too fast. He knows it and tries to curb it, but aside from his talking speed, he's often trying to do three things at once, even while lecturing. The upside is you get through a lot and get introduced to a lot of information. The downside is if you miss something, there's no time to sit and think and catch up. Pete uses all the facilities of the photography department, introducing advanced photography students to multiple types of cameras including digital, different exposing and developing techniques, lighting, and more. If you are interested in photography, take Pete and act like a spongenoemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38475/Moonlights-as-an-auctioneer#comments2003-11-20T19:14:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38475/Moonlights-as-an-auctioneerhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38472/Acceptable-for-a-required-classThis class is required, and given that, Dr. Smith isn't a bad professor to take for this one. Exams are typical Art History exams; memorize dates and names of a while lot of pieces and then regurgitate them in side identification and in comparison essays. In addition to the exams, each student must make a presentation about some style of Design and how it has Evolved. Dr. Smith has a nice personality, but her lectures are lectures, and don't do much to encourage you to stay awake.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38472/Acceptable-for-a-required-class#comments2003-11-20T19:05:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38472/Acceptable-for-a-required-classhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38471/Eh-Thats-about-allDr. Nero is a rather neutral professor; she does do some interesting visualizations with the whole class to introduce sociological concepts, but lecturing style, exam content, and homework are all pretty standard and routine. She has several good anecdotes, but other than that, a rather run of the mill professor.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38471/Eh-Thats-about-all#comments2003-11-20T19:01:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38471/Eh-Thats-about-allhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38470/A-cinematic-personalityDr. Hartz did one thing in his class that I've never had any other professor or teacher do. Because it's a film class, we broke into groups and worked together as a team to create the video projects. To determine groups, the first week we all took a personality test. Based on those results, he formed the groups, making sure the get a good blend of characteristics in each group. For my own group it worked out rather well, and we did form a team rather quickly. Dr. Hartz also gets points for effort; he does go out of his way to give students extra information that they will need if they persue this media as a career, but may not need to get the projects done for his class. He has an often-laughing, ready to help attitude that sometimes comes across as more nosy than other professors (and makes sure you're not slacking off), but also makes him available during classtime quite often for questions and problems.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38470/A-cinematic-personality#comments2003-11-20T18:56:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38470/A-cinematic-personalityhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38469/A-teacher-with-good-chemistryI may be biased in this review for several reasons, but I put it forth nonetheless. Visualizing chemistry is the chemistry class without the lab. You still do some lab experiements, but not every week. For me, it was a review of what I learned in high school, so the class content as a whole was a snap. But besides that, Marty is a fabulous man to know. He is the head of the Chemistry department (but will be stepping down soon), and has been a teacher for quite some time. He's a very amiable man, and fairly willing to flex the rules if you've show that you won't abuse the privilage. Since this is Visualizing Chemistry, he does a lot of experiments for you in front of the lecture hall, instead of you doing them yourself, but he always seems to be amazed by the results of what he's done, even if it's a rather predictable experiment, so it keeps the lectures engaging.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38469/A-teacher-with-good-chemistry#comments2003-11-20T18:49:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review38469/A-teacher-with-good-chemistryhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review27324/A-twist-of-reality-in-Art-educationHe is sometimes a little misinformed on some of the subjects he tries to relate student work to, but will still make students consider the bigger picture. The out-of-class assignments could be alittle ambiguous, but that is taken into consideration during critiques. Rob is definitely not a conventional teacher, and will let you learn from his personal experiences.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review27324/A-twist-of-reality-in-Art-education#comments2003-06-09T11:15:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review27324/A-twist-of-reality-in-Art-educationhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review25573/quotAn-embarassment-to-any-universityquotTo begin, assimulate, one of Sue's favorite words, is not part of the English language. This fact should have foreshadowed the poor teaching to come. Sue is without question the worst professor that I have had in my entire academic career. She's uncaring, stubborn, ignorant, and lacks creativity. She's an embarassment to any university. If you're interested in learning the art of taping coversheets, this is the class for you. If you'd like to learn about packaging or design, look elsewhere.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review25573/quotAn-embarassment-to-any-universityquot#comments2003-05-03T00:49:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review25573/quotAn-embarassment-to-any-universityquothttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review24914/On-the-whole-a-good-professorThis class, like other studio classes, doesn't have a large amount of 'homework,' but there are several projects that need to be done, and since clay can't be taken back to your dorm to work, you'll be spending some out of class time in the ceramics lab. Aside from the requirements of the course itself, Geoff (pronounced like 'Jeff') has been a ceramicist in the 'real world' for some time, and the biggest problem he has lecturing is translating his real world experience into words for the students to grasp. On the whole, a good professor; not extraordinary, though. He doesn't often give out As for his course, according to him, though I got one. The breadth of ceramics techniques is impressive, and I left his course with twenty-some ceramics pieces from one semester. One side note, Geoff is a heavy smoker, which is noticiable when in close quarters with him.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review24914/On-the-whole-a-good-professor#comments2003-04-17T10:02:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review24914/On-the-whole-a-good-professorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review24913/The-skys-the-limitThere is no major on campus as of now that requires you to take this class. Professor Rada knows this, and knows that you're taking this class because you have an interest in Astronomy, and therefore, his curriculum is geared no toward giving you knowledge that will help you discover a new star, but rather give you information that is useful to share around the coffee table, or that you're able to use at home with the astronomy equipment you have available to you as an amateur. If you have a genuine interest in Astronomy, this course is fairly simple, and enjoyable. If you have trouble grasping concepts you can't see, you might have problems, since this class covers spectral analysis of stars (composition of stars), life cycles of stars and planets, surface and core conditions for several major planets, and geology about Earth. P.S. Since this review was posted, Jim Rada passed away. May 17, 2003; one day after the end of the spring term, he met his death while out hiking in the wilderness he loved. In his memory, I'm leaving this review up as a momento of the lives he touched.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review24913/The-skys-the-limit#comments2003-04-17T09:51:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review24913/The-skys-the-limithttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review21262/Speedy-lecturerThe main thing to consider when choosing this professor for your econ class is how fast you can write/type. I used a laptop in this class to take notes (which is good for text entry, but slow for making graphs), and with my 80-90wpm typing, could barely keep up. Several students resorted to taping the lecture and replaying it later because she goes very fast and doesn't act very happy about asking for repeats. Handwriting is fairly good on the blackboard, and her tests are not cumulative, including the final, so that makes it a bit easier. Her grades are based on raw points, so it's very easy to track your grades if you'd like. Her 'office hours' category gets a lower grade since she doesn't care much for technology, and so doesn't check eMail, and doesn't have an answering machine in her office. Her personality grade suffers because she's very rarely in a good mood.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review21262/Speedy-lecturer#comments2002-12-16T08:22:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review21262/Speedy-lecturerhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review19152/Worth-taking-for-a-class-I-wish-he-taught-more-classesMr. Fenton is an excellent leader in class. He knows his field and he knows the skills we need. He also has a great way of getting his point across to us. He is also a student and knows first hand about our other responsibilities as students and that is something that not all techers can demonstrate. I know he teaches an international class as well that I want to take.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review19152/Worth-taking-for-a-class-I-wish-he-taught-more-classes#comments2002-10-21T10:20:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review19152/Worth-taking-for-a-class-I-wish-he-taught-more-classeshttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review19030/You-will-work-hard-PeriodIt's hard to assign letter grades to Recker's teaching style, because you either like it or hate it. She has a reputation with other teachers for turning out students who do quality work. And she loves that. So, you will work hard, and you will become better than any other section of Presentation Techniques, or you will not get a good grade in this class. Recker splits up the learning of 3D marker rendering this way: In class she teaches the technique of construction, and outside of class she assigns homework to copy the texture rendering of an existing piece (you're encouraged to photocopy the lines, and then fill in the spaces, copying their technique). To see examples of some of the work I did, visit http://www.midnightdesignhq.com/g_artwork/prestech/index.html Final note: I would not suggest taking this class with several other studio classes, as you will be spending upwards of 5 hours a week outside of class working on projects. I managed to pull off an A, but it ment several sleepless nights.</p>noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review19030/You-will-work-hard-Period#comments2002-10-15T15:47:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review19030/You-will-work-hard-Periodhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18919/Street-smart-professorNot your typical high-class intellecutalist professor. And also not the radical artsy-fartsy type either. He went through more years of college than most of us will to finally settle where he is now, so relates to switching majors, academic issues, as well as the extracurriculars (beer, frats, jail...), so a very 'realistic' teacher. His lectures gain because of that; he's easy to understand in his points, and will gladly re-hash them with you if you don't understand. The few out-of-class projects (hard to do when the models are all in-class) are very good; creative projects to stretch you as an artist while still keeping within the 'life drawing' definition of the class.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18919/Street-smart-professor#comments2002-10-09T00:33:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18919/Street-smart-professorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18918/Take-bets-on-how-many-circles-he-draws-on-the-board-per-lectureThe majority of this class is based off of lectures, and the notes taken at them. The test of this environment is a series of essays to regurgitate and explain the analysis. So, if you're not good at note-taking or backing up your point with examples in writing, this course will be tough. Schuler's lectures are characterized by him going over the reading due for the day (yes, he does go over it thoroughly enough that you really don't have to read it) and analyizing it. He does write on the board, but it's not diagrams and structure charts defining the story so much as it is individual words. Most professors will write difficult or unusual words on the board, if only to give the spelling for the note-takers, but Schuler will put any important key word on the board. If it's really important (or if he comes back to it again later) he'll circle it. Unfortuantely this method doesn't illustrate his point very well at a glance, so you have to translate it into another method in order to 'get' it. Homework is reading, and if you do it, it is a demanding amount of pages per night. Schuler has a nice personality on the whole, but that's it. Gets animated sometimes, gets passionate sometimes, but generally just lectures.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18918/Take-bets-on-how-many-circles-he-draws-on-the-board-per-lecture#comments2002-10-09T00:22:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18918/Take-bets-on-how-many-circles-he-draws-on-the-board-per-lecturehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18917/Well-spoken-speech-professorExams and Projects grades don't apply since, his lectures use typed overheads if anything. The only time you'll see his handwriting is on his critiques of your speeches. I've had to ask him what he wrote a few times, but on the whole it's understandable (if you can read cursive well). He is a senior speech teacher, and is good at what he does. His speaking skills and lecturing skills are both well developed (not only does he speak well, he speaks in an understandable way), and he incorporates a more friendly personality into his lectures, giving side information that we might find useful (and ulike some high and lofty professors, it's actually useful!) from time to time. The only catch to his section of the Fundamentals of Speech class is that he requires every speech to deal with your major (no random speeches about the deforestation of Equador), which is good in that it prepares you for the type of public speaking that you'll be doing in the job force, but it does require some creativity to come up with different styles of speech on one topic.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18917/Well-spoken-speech-professor#comments2002-10-09T00:12:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18917/Well-spoken-speech-professorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18916/Set-in-her-waysThis class centers around a linear progression of projects where each student creates a logo, promotional and stationairy piece for a non-existant company. Since one project leads to the next, by nature, if you fall behind, you're in trouble, regardless of the professor. Trupiano is known for her keeping to routine. She does graphic design on her own, and her method of doing things is what she teaches. This is fine if it is your style, but any deviation she won't encourage. Homework for this class was sometimes not consistant with how much time was allowed to complete it. Handwriting doesn't count for much, since most lecutures are demos, so it's her speaking ability (Lectures grade) that's more important.noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18916/Set-in-her-ways#comments2002-10-09T00:03:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review18916/Set-in-her-wayshttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12442/Great-Art-History-professorIf you've read my review for Rylance's 223 Art History, you already know I think highly of her, but this Survey class covers the Baroque; the area she loves the best, and so she teaches it the best. The content of this survey envelops more artist names and more styles/sub-styles, but she's still the same great teachernoemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12442/Great-Art-History-professor#comments2001-11-01T09:40:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12442/Great-Art-History-professorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12441/A-very-reasonable-Art-History-professorWhen I was a freshman art student taking Art History for the first time, on the first day of class, I could hear background conversations of "This is third time I'm taking this class; it's so hard," "I'll probably have to drop this one again," and so on. Apparently they were talking about the other Art History professors. Dr. Rylance does a superb job at getting the information across and is reasonable on her tests. If you're dedicated (she doesn't take attendance at lectures, only test days), she's a wonderful Art History professor. For each exam you usually have to memorize at least one hundred artworks, artists, creation dates, and styles, and then recognize fifteen via slides of the works, and then do essays on six other slides. All in all she's a very reasonable professor. (Use the book as a doorstop, it's the best use for it; she covers most of it in class. A good skimming the night of the exam is all you need)noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12441/A-very-reasonable-Art-History-professor#comments2001-11-01T09:36:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12441/A-very-reasonable-Art-History-professorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12440/Got-to-learn-his-styleLang does a good impression of a hit man, if you happen to read the Inferno for his class. My main complaint about him is his paper grading style. He has a particular style that you have to 'get used to' or else get lower grades. I got a 'C' on my first paper, when I'm always an 'A' student. When my second came back 'B-,' I had to kick it into high gear to pull that grade up to where I wanted it. So it is possible to do, just difficult. Like most english classes, there is a large amount of reading outside of class, but some of them are inappropriately spaced out (100 pages to read in five days, 250 to read in two...).noemail@coursereviews.com (MidnightLightning)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12440/Got-to-learn-his-style#comments2001-11-01T09:26:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review12440/Got-to-learn-his-stylehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review9771/Smart-guy-poor-teacherC. Baird is a nice guy I'm sure. And he obviously a very smart guy when it comes to accounting. But he is not a good teacher. He is dull, and very uninteresting. Honestly, if I hadn't taken accounting in high school, I would be completely lost. If your looking at an accounting class, Take murphy.noemail@coursereviews.com (lygophobia)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review9771/Smart-guy-poor-teacher#comments2001-02-25T23:59:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u2566/review9771/Smart-guy-poor-teacher