Lectures provided were from 2 years ago. No effort at all. Had to rate the professor when he basically was not present, and test was prepared by someone else on topics that were not covered. Lectures are boring and monotonous. The only good thing tbh was a cute dog Tyler, this guy was the only thing I was looking forward to when watching them.
Intro Bio department couldn't find a professor to teach the plants section of the course so they had us watch Scott's online COVID lectures. His lectures were all over the place; I'd recommend reading the book in-depth rather than watching his lectures as he does not stray far from it.
He was a really sweet professor who really cares about his students. He showed us really cool videos about his dog and plants that he sees on his hikes. Informational, inspirational, and interesting. Hope he continues making them!
Prof. Hodges is a really passionate, kind instructor. Lectures are detailed and reflective of exam content. CLAS and practice questions (especially from in-class quizzes) help. Organization could be better, and there is a lot of studying involved in his portion, but overall I recommend taking this class!
Extremely disorganized lectures which seem to jump all over the place, but if you pay attention and take good notes you'll catch on. He provided a practice final which contained a handful of exact questions from the midterm we were graded on, which was nice. No need to even open the textbook for this entire class.
passionate lecturer, but very disorganized. his powerpoint slides are hard to follow. its difficult to study when you're just looking at diagrams from the book and blurry videos of his dog. his midterm was very generous tho.
Listen: if his lectures were more organized, he'd probably be my 2nd favorite eemb prof behind Latto. Hes so nice, so passionate, and the video bits with Tyler were really fun. I had to take really intense notes on his lectures since the slides were so bare/confusing, but maybe that was helpful? idk
Great professor, goes over a lot of detail but as long you take great notes you'll be fine. Shows plenty of videos of his adorable dog Tyler looking for plants. Overall great professor.
Lectures are pretty organized yet dense. He's definitely real passionate about plants and wants us to learn well. He greatly emphasizes life-cycles and phylogenetic trees so make sure to remember those! The videos of him and his dog Tyler were a nice touch lol. The midterm for his section was pretty hard though and sometimes had ambiguous wording.
Ok, so cuz of coronavirus, we're online right now, and Professor Hodges is doing great. He teaches everything in great detail and even incorporates fun little videos of his dog Tyler in nature showing us the plants we are learning about. He is so passionate about the subject and it's wonderful. Highly enthusiastic and fun guy, definitely cares.
Professor Hodges was fine, but he got behind the lecture schedule. His section was probably the hardest and most demanding of the 3. He does do iclickers that are graded for accuracy too. There's a ton of information you need to memorize in this class so it's best to review the recorded lectures since anything he says might be tested.
Hodges is very enthusiastic and really cares about plants. However, the slides have almost no information on them, the material is super dense and complex, and his tests are TRICKY. His portion of the final was by far the most difficult. STUDY STUDY STUDY for his section. The other two profs of this class present the material more clearly.