Slides are bare bones, he's very passionate about plants but its kinda unclear what you're gonna be tested on. Be prepared to pay attention as well as self-study from the start or its really easy to get behind.

Hodges taught plant/botany section for EEMB3. He is really enthusiastic about plants but his lecture slides suck. They are all pictures and little to no words so you don't really have a good guide to study off of. He is nice and attentive when you ask questions, and also visits the lab sections and finds the plant specimen we study in lab.

Carlson taught microbiology section for EEMB 3. Lectures were cool but had a lot of content and kind of dragged on. Tests were overall straightforward but still fair amount of questions that were worded weird/tried to trip you up. He is a pretty ok professor, as long as you pay attention and study notes you will be fine.

Prof Carlson is fantastic. He taught marine microbio with Prof. Santoro and they were a great duo. Carlson is great at explaining everything & teaches at an excellent pace. Both professors really care, the final lecture was dedicated to reviewing lecture material. If you put in the effort you will definitely do well! Take this class!

Scott is really passionate about plant diversity. He says "my favorite plant is the one I saw last". I never showed up to class bc it was an 8am but I always looked forward to watching the lectures online. Studying for the midterm was a great time. Scott's part of the class was definitely my favorite in the bio series.

He doesn't respond to emails. Doesn't grade his own exams, the TA does. His tests were very straightforward (doesn't mean easy). He didn't seem to care much about individual students doing well in the course, sort of just went through the course as if it was his 10th time doing it. His lectures were interesting & directed us towards things to study

Teaches moderately clearly, but his powerpoint slides have few words on them. His tests require alot of memorization. His midterm was tough, but his portion of the final was insanely difficult- it had questions that seemed to be more advanced and in-depth than what was covered. Seems to be helpful.

Teaches clearly and gives iclicker questions in class. His tests require alot of memorization. Seems to be helpful.

Hodges loves his plants and his enthusiasm makes lecture a lot better. His tests are fair as long as you prepare. His slides lack the detail he goes into in lecture and are often just pictures. Make sure to attend lecture.

As an updated review of the course, I would say it is a relatively easy course. The best parts are also the worst however, there just is simply not enough time to pull off a genetics course that encompasses the entire field. This is especially true within a quarter. Be ready for a lot of botany based lectures, since this is his main expertise.

Hodges tries to do a good job teaching and be entertaining. However, he often is very unclear. TA was very helpful (Derieg) and more clear. Textbook is helpful but all exam material is from class. The content of class is interesting, but is made less interesting by the fact that he uses flowers and plants for his examples.

Hodges makes an effort, so i respect him. However, he is unable to present material in a clear way. Additionally, the content is the most boring thing on earth. literally wanted to die every second of that class. exams were easy and he doesn't try to trick you. This

Really helpful and friendly! Make genetics extremely clear and comprehensive. He provides a lot of example problems in class, so review those for the test and also review the practice test he posts online. I never read the textbook, just went over his lecture slides and did some book problems! Great professor and extremely approachable!!

Very clear and loves what he teaches. Lecture slides have little information on them but that's all you really need to know. Midterm was very easy and he reuses test questions

very nice guy. he had a good sense of humor and joked about the fact that none of us were actually interested in plants. his test for the midterm and final were relatively easy. just a lot of memorization for all sections of the class. i would definately like to take another class from him. oh and he takes A LOT out of the text book so read!

very cool guy. sexy too. there was a lot of material but his test for midterm and final were pretty easy. approachable and friendly.

not a hard class, its plain memorization...his quizzes are like his tests and he recycles questions.

Ive never seen a man so interested in plants as much as Hodges,it's really cute.The way he presents himself during lecture is quite feminine.Hes a pretty good teacher, even though the material was really boring but at least it was Finkelstein!His tests arent that bad but make sure u know the specific dates and time period of when each plant evolved

Because of Carlson, I might actually go into microbiology... a field I never even considered before him. He made it really interesting. The only bad thing was that it was sooo much material. You need to be able to remember A LOT of stuff, most of which were the foreign names of bacteria. It also sucks that the final is cumulative

He was very nice but extremely boring. Of the three bio teachers i had that spring quarter i went to his class the least and hated it the most. Which might have been due to the fact that Carlson taught bacteria. His tests are hard but fair. Study the lecture notes more than the book.

I hate plants and never liked them, but Hodges made it alot easier to understand them. Although he throws a lot of material on his lecture slide, it is not hard to follow along if you do the readings before hand. Overall, he made the class exciting and a learning experience for me. He is defintely one of the better bio professors I've had.

He seems like a good teacher when the class starts and his lectures are fairly interesting; his tests, on the other hand, have nothing to do with anything that he teaches. I never missed a lecture or CLAS tutorial, I did the assigned reading / studied lecture slides, etc., and his test was absurd and NOTHING like what you would expect.

Makes genetics fun! Provides good examples to exemplify the concepts and is smart enough to answer any question thrown at him in lecture. Tests are fair and easy if you DO THE PROBLEMS! Very willing to help out students and is not intimidating to approach. He also uses the chalkboard...very old school.

class is really great. he is VERY enthusiastic about plants. good professor. very clear.