Susan Kaminskyj - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

Professor: Susan Kaminskyj

Department: Science

College: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Openly talks down to get student. Often talks about ex husband.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Incredibly rude. Always goes on random tangents about unrelated subjects. Didn't even cover all of the topics and let us know the last day of class we'd have to learn a chapter on our own because she didn't cover it. No student will want to continue in biology after having a class with her. No idea why she teaches a first year bio class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I got a horrible grade in biology, mostly because of her. She made me never want to take another biology class again. Is there an option to give her a zero?

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Avoid her at all costs! She has no time management skills and taught us the same slideshow for 3 weeks, and then tried to teach us our last chapter in the last 10 minutes of the last class before the final. She does not treat her students well, and most of the time she doesn't even talk about things relevant to the course!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She actually repeated the same set of lecture slides for 3 weeks. 6 lectures of gel electrophoresis on repeat. That was bad. So no, her lectures hold no value, but I was able to get more than decent marks by reading the textbook chapters and studying from online sources.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

AWFUL...

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worst Prof ever. So hard to follow, there is no keeping up with her constant sidetracking and babbling. I think my learning decreased from sitting through her lectures and I know myself, as well as many others proceeded to stop attending. Apparently it would be "ridiculous" of her to test on any type of facts about Biology.. aka brutal final.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: 120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do not take this class! Wait a semester if you have to, unless you want to learn nothing about Biology and everything about her fungi research and listen to long winded useless info that has nothing to do with this class. Avoid this prof at all costs.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: 120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Attendance went way down when she took over, not many people want to listen to her. She talks down on students a lot. She gives you a lot of pointless information, just boring to listen to. Avoid her if you can.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BIOL120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Her notes were full of pictures with little to no information. When you would ask for help, she would refer you to Wikipedia as an "excellent source of information." Easy to understand and knew what she was talking about, but was more interested in her own research than teaching. Afford taking her section if you can.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

HORRIBLE PROF. If you can switch into a class with a different prof.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BIO301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Terrible class to begin with. She didn't make it any better. Just be prepared for the vagueness of every assignment and final essay.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BIOL120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I think he is probably a nice person, but as a prof she is horrible. She only uses pictures in which she goes into so much detail that you only need to know maybe 1/4 of. The text book with be your lifeline in this class. I would consider finding another prof.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

HORRIBLE PROF. JUST HORRIBLE. SO MUCH SO that the department sent out an apology email for her confusion NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET OUT. BUT the text is your life line and will earn you a high mark if you put the time in.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: BIOL120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

An OK prof. Her slides are just pictures and not very helpful but she covered course materials thoroughly. She's really nice but I would not take another class with her.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I would not recommend this professor! She talks about stuff that is above a Biology 120 level sometimes!

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BIOL120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She doesn't know hoe to teach at all. Just wasting time, she is a real time killer.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BIO121
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Terrible professor. She is arrogant and constantly talks down to students. When she actually does teach most of her content is incorrect because she uses wikipedia

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• 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:

Not helpful, lectures were boring and confusing, exams tricky. Learned way more in the lab run by the graduate students than by her. The impression I got was that she is at the university for research of fungi (which she references every class) and teaching is just an inconvenience to her research.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: BIO120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

her class is not useful and she does not like to help, the best thing is to drop her class