Donald Dearborne - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Professor: Donald Dearborne

Department: Science

College: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BIOL207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He's really interested in what he is teaching, and it shows. He was also my ANBE advisor, and was very helpful every time I went to him for help and advice. The material he teaches is difficult, but he is an excellent professor!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BIOL357
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dearborn is a great professor! He is demanding, but it is a 300-level bio course so it's appropriate. Study and go to class and you just may enjoy yourself.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BIO300
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He is garbage and so is his class. Terrible professor who demands a ton from nothing. Do not take any classes with him no matter what. Its better to wait and take the course a year later with another professor then to suffer a semester with this devil.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BIOL3XX
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

AVOID!!! Look at other comments to confirm.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BIOL357
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This guy is worthless, not only is he hard as hell, he is an incompetent professor. Do not take any of his classes

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BIO207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Really hard compared to others. Exams do not test knowledge learned.If you want to do well, you will need to spend many nights with your text and time in office hours. Extremely laid back professor which is deceiving because he expects a lot out of his students. Grade is only made up of exams and a few quizzes. No curving, no extra credit.Avoid.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BIO207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Really cool guy, knows the material from the book really well. He's very approachable outside of class and is always willing to help. He's the hardest genetics teacher of all of them however. You'll either do really well or really poorly, do the problem sets and read the book.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: BIO207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

You'll either do extremely well or extremely poorly in genetics. He's harder than other teachers but he's a really cool fun guy and is easy to catch outside of class, he DOES know the book very well even if he has some trouble rephrasing the material to explain things. READ THE BOOK and do the problem sets.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BIO207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

great teacher and a really nice guy. always willing to help.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BIOL207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He's very funny, and is the easiest genetics professor, but often doesn't have answers to students' simple questions. His tests aren't that bad, and he doesn't check to see if you have done the problem sets (but do them because tests are based largely off of them!) He encourages class participation, but only test and quiz scores affect your grade.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BIOL350
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

very interested in the material now after taking the class

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BIOL207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He's not the best geneticist, but if you can do his problem sets then you will be fine on the exam. And since you have problem session every week, you can learn how to do them.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: 207
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

very unhelpful. dosnt put slides up, dosnt give practice problems, always seems hesitant to answer questions when you go to him for extra help , dosnt seem to know conceptual stuff ( i dont think he has actually read the textbook in a while) AND wording and problems on tests are completely different to text book/class so tests are confusing!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BIOL207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Nice guy, but his class is HARD AS HELL

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: 207
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

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