Ian Whishaw - University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB

Professor: Ian Whishaw

Department: Neuroscience

College: University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

LOVE Ian as a prof. his class is super fun and easy to pay attention in. He makes neuro alot less nerve racking than it seems

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Loved Ian's lectures. He was hilarious & cracked jokes to try & liven up material. Lectures are mandatory he says the majority of the material you need to know, & has clicker questions. Has a bunch of bonus, & gives you 2 attempts on both tests. Grade based entirely on these tests. Super easy if you know terms and lecture notes. Great class!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I got an A+ but I still don't know much at all about the course material. There was far too much information being covered in a single GLER class. Ian is a decent lecturer, the class felt a bit overwhelming and scattered. Lots of extra credit to pull the class' grades up. Not accurate assessment of knowledge. Exam questions are vague.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Easy A class. Lectures are interesting and Ian is hilarious. Iclicker questions are sometimes difficult, but he will allow you to retry. Midterms and exams are super easy and you can get LOTS of bonus marks which ends up giving you a fantastic grade. GPA booster, would recommend.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Take neuro with this prof while you can!! Yes the midterm and final are quite difficult but the amount of bonus points you can rack up is ridiculous (over 20%). As long as you do all of the bonus mark opportunities and try your best on the exams you will get an A.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I don't know why Ian is rated so badly on here. Yes, his tests are a bit tough. But THE NUMBER OF BONUS MARKS YOU CAN GET IS INSANE, AND IT IS SO EASY TO DO. 15% bonus clicker marks, 4% for studies, 3% for going to a neuroscience talk. Yes, that is 22% you can have added to your final grade. I didn't even buy the textbook and I got an A+ easily.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I thought his lectures were interesting and very funny! There are SO many possibilities for bonus marks in this class, that you barely even have to pass the exams to get a great mark. Just make sure you know a lot of little details he mentions in the lectures!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This course was far more difficult than I had expected. Clicker questions were very fast and didn't allow thorough thought put into the answers. The exams were difficult, even with rewrites, and had intentional trick questions. Lecture notes were not helpful at all - it is necessary to do your own learning from the textbook. Wouldn't recommend.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I was a bit disappointed in Ian's lectures. Although he seems very passionate on what he was talking about, there was not much valuable information in his lecture slides, and the main important information came from what he was SAYING. Clickers are difficult and very short time is given to answer. Exams are also not easy, even with 2 given attempts

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Ian was a solid prof. I found his lectures interesting and the hour lectures went fast for me. Class attendance is mandatory as his iClicker questions are worth 30%. They aren't bad if you look over the chapter before class. His exams are hard multiple choice but you get 2 tries so its possible to do well. Study the textbook for the tests..

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

- iClickers (read slides or chapter before class) - Get extra bonus points - Lecture notes don't help, read textbook instead - If you know your Bio 30, then you should get above 70% - Exam difficulty was hard if you based it off the lecture notes - Everything in the textbook is pretty much the exam

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Course has two tests and iclicker questions ever class worth 20% of grade so must attend class. This is unfortunate as he posts his slides to Moodle, and course can easily be done just from the slides. His lectures are boring, he goes on pointless tangents and makes terrible jokes. Learned absolutely nothing from him.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Prof. Whishaw is an interesting teacher. His nonchalant attitude when teaching makes him unique in his own way. Though his midterms, exams and clicker questions are brutal, the bonus points makes them worthwhile. I encourage students to take classes with him.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Really funny, interesting guy. But his tests were extremely hard. Still, he made the class worth going to.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Whishaw was really inconsistent throughout the whole semester. Just reads off the pre-made slides for the class, if he goes off script it becomes a ramble on an unrelated topic. Tests were clearly made by a different TA each time and because of this were inconsistent and not always what he taught. Clicker questions were a joke.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This course is a farce. I understand Ian's efforts to help his students make sense of the material, but he sometimes simplifies things (especially from molecular and cellular biology) to the point that they are no longer correct. Very, very easy course, but not as rewarding as I had hoped it might be. Recommended regardless.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Excellent professor. Made the material easy to understand, and gave plenty of opportunity to get bonus marks. The midterm was very fair and not difficult to do well on if you studied the lecture notes and summaries posted online (these are VERY helpful). One of the easiest (and most interesting) science courses if you are looking for a gler

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: NEUR2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very smart guy, makes class interesting the best he can! Always tying in how the knowledge applies to real life, and he is good for realizing that we are students and explaining concepts well! Oh, and the clicker questions are directly from either slides OR him speaking, if you aren't on facebook, texting, or asleep you will be fine! =)

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: NEURO2600
• 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:

Notes he gives in class are useless as the TA writes up the exam and goes way more in depth than the slides. Clicker questions are unfair as he asks questions about things he hasn't actually talked about and he says one answer's right one day and its wrong another. He's a nice guy but this class wont do anything for GPA

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: NUERO2600
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I had heard so many great things about this class and professor, the advisor recommended him. I found that not only where the clicker questions not fair, he would say an answer was right one day and the next day it was wrong. His TA's wrote the test and he admitted that he only got 95% on the test before it was given to us.