Joanne Rosvick - Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC

Professor: Joanne Rosvick

Department: Physics

College: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1140
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I loved Joanne, her lectures were great and you can tell she loves her subjects. She writes extra notes on the overhead projector while she explains things which is really helpful. Everything on the tests is covered in class, but you definitely need to show up because not everything is explained on the slides posted to Moodle.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1140
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Her notes & lectures are poorly structured & unorganized. She often jumps back + forth from seperate ideas. Assignment questions are equally unorganized and unclear; had to email her constantly for clarification. She writes poorly worded questions and passes it off as you having to think about it. Good grades arent hard but prepare for frustration

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1150
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Joanne is an absolute gem. She is sweet, hilarious, and an absolutely brilliant professor. I had an interest in the material beforehand, but she made me even more excited about it! She makes her own models to help explain the harder ideas/theories, etc. and she is thoroughly geeky in the greatest way possible. Would take her again any day!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1100
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Joanne is great, I would have no qualms about taking another class with her. ++ articulate, organized, prompt marking, explains the significance of things and uses interesting examples, provides excellent homework packs, tests are straightforward, plenty of opportunity to do well. -- Kind of oldschool in her expectations, but totally reasonable.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1140
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Joanne is great, she explains things really well considering my class if full of people that know absolutely nothing about astronomy, or science, or common sense as it seems sometimes.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1140
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Joanne is a very fun and energetic prof that loves what she teaches. Does model demonstrations in class that make you laugh and understand. She has 1 textbook for her classes reserved at the library for those you can't afford it. Class requires basic understanding of chemistry. Grade determined by assignments, midterms, and final.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS1100
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

She's one of the best professors I've ever had. :) She is very clear and enthused about the material. Her tests are also very fair and straightforward.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: 1140
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Made astronomy really interesting, and Was easy to follow along in lecture. She writes her own notes on an overhead projector while going through lecture so you know what to write, really helpful.

Rating # 9

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Fantastic Prof. Would take her again.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1150
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Joanne made astronomy interesting to me! The class was at a good pace, and the notes were easy to follow. She didn't talk about the textbook much in class, but still required you to know a lot from it for tests.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PHY1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

excellent prof.i think the best tru has got for physics.extremely helpful.hilarious!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Solid prof. Good notes & delivery. Fair tests. Good jokes. No complaints - recommend.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1100
• 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:

Good teacher. Tests are right out of notes, as long as you ask for help she will give it to you. She's a generous marker as long as you have an idea what your doing, actually found the final super easy. This was her first year teaching 1100 because she usually teaches 1150, the more advanced course, so yes she knows what she's talking about

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Extremely obvious that she does not understand the course content, if I had not done the curriculum a year prior I would be lost; as it seems all my classmates are. AVOID HER FOR PHYSICS

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PHYS1100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Cannot stand her as a teacher, although content was super easy she should not be teaching first year physics. Especially when she says "its my first year teaching this course".. Tests had stuff we'd never seen on it and improperly prepared for the final.. Switched out of her class 2nd semester.. Avoid her as a first year physics teacher

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ASTRO
• 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:

She's hilarious, always has fun interactive props and stuff that make learning more fun. Learnt a lot of stuff but never felt overwhelmed by any of it. my love may be biased though because she did give me my first university A+ :)

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PHYS115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Only teacher I've ever seen give part marks for incorrect multiple choice questions.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ASTR1140
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Joanne is an awesome prof!I actually enjoyed the class a lot more than I thought I would! You can tell by the first day that Joanne loves what she does. She's really nice and funny, and she always does demonstrations for the hard things, and they help a lot. I recommend. :)

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PHYS414
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Took the fourth year nuclear physics class with Joanne. She was a great teacher. Very organized, very thorough when answering questions, her exams were completely fair, and she was always willing to help if you visited her in her office. She's so nice and goofy, wish she taught more upper level!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ASTRO1140
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Joanne is honestly my favourite professor so far (I'm a second year) i just find her class so welcoming, no one is afraid to ask questions and start a discussion. She has very clear examples and as long as you pay attention to the notes (they are all on moddle) you'll do fine in her class. Definitely recommend, will have her again if i can!