Professor Montell is knowledgeable and made a subject that could easily be boring into something exciting. I loved the guest lectures and was so thankful for her recording lectures. I have seen feedback on here that her lectures are disorganized, I disagree. Sometimes her slides can be a bit redundant, but that just drives her point home.

Entire course disorganized. Seems like she didn't prepare for lectures or know what she was going to talk about. Slides crammed with little information. Doesn't respond to emails, has others do it for her.

Denise is a great professor and chooses topics that are very prevalent and interesting. Exams are entirely lecture based, so if you know the lectures you will be fine. I thought the class was graded very fairly and found it super interesting. I am sad I can't take it again.

She's nice, but her lectures are so hard to get through. It seems like she starts every sentence without knowing what she wants to say so she's constantly pausing to reword things or repeating herself. Her slides also don't have a clear relationship to the previous ones, so it's hard to understand her train of thought and connect different ideas.

I haven't even finished this class (W21) yet but it's been one of the worst upper division bio classes that I have taken thus far. The material itself is interesting, but Prof. Montell is so awful at lecturing and her quizzes are frustrating. Also, she's not very understanding and gets upset at students for asking about grading inaccuracies.

I haven't even made it through the whole course, but I am not a fan. Professor Montell is wicked smart, but lecturing is not her strong point. Her lectures are all over the place and she often takes long pauses like she doesn't even know what she wants to say. Her quizzes are super confusing and leave you second guessing.