Gerald Borgia - University of Maryland

Professor: Gerald Borgia

Department: TBD

College: University of Maryland

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BSCI360
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Dr. Borgia is pretty nice but very inaccessible so you definitely have to form a good relationship with his TA to know what is going on in class. The TA I had, Callie, was amazing, but he RELIED on her to relay information to us and keep the class floating. He is a very boring lecturer with white slides and black text that he reads word for word!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BSCS106
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He is a very kind, caring, and good professor. He will give you the grade you deserve as long as you put the effort in!!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

Very monotone and boring.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

Lord, he was the WORSE teacher I have ever had! Honestly, stay away from him at ALLL costs. I went to every class and used all of my effort to stay awake. He just stands in front of the class reading from the powerpoints with the most boring voice. Tests are insanely difficult and he is incredibly unhelpful. He is also extremely rude.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do NOT take this his class. He's an incompetent professor and can't even get his slides right and isn't very prepared for his own lecture. His tests and quizzes are tricky because they're almost all true and false. Your GPA's gonna be shot if you take his class

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BSCS106
• 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:

The worst prof. on the planet. Stay away for love of your GPA. His lectures are terrible, and his exams are tricky. He needs to find a nursing home fast and retire.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

Monotone voice. Terrible orator. Completely illiterate in terms of lecture slides and exam questions;typos abound and ambiguity abound. sleep inducing and boring during lecture. Not clear about what to study.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He's not a terrible speaker, so if you go to lectures and just listen, that part is fine. He posts the slides online, but not really. It's more like broken-up pictureless typo-ridden outlines of the slides. Which you kind of have to rely on even if you do attend class, because he goes too fast though the slides in class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

Awful. I agree with everyone else, avoid this professor at all costs. Textbook not used, boring and unclear lectures, and the exams are all super specrazy-worded true false questions. It's terrible. Don't take his class.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

horrible. He is extremely blind so when you raise your hand he cant see, he cant even see the computer screen thats 3 inches in front of him. he is very rude and sounds like ben stein. his exams are 100 true and false questions with MULTIPLE true answers and you need to get them all to get the points. clickers are the same. overall he is useless.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

BORING. Tests and clickers are all true/false, but very specific. he goes real quickly through the slides so its important to review them online, since he doesn't use the textbook.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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 the most boring and worst teacher on the face of this planet. AVOID THIS TEACHER AT ALL COSTS!!!! It is hard to hear him if you are in the back, and he reads directly from the powerpoints and goes too fast. You must attend class to do the clicker questions because it is a quiz grade and true/ false on everything does not make it any easier.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

his class is very boring. he just reads off the powerpoint but you have to go to class to take answer clicker questions which are quiz grades. it was a pretty horrible experience. i lost my interest in biology after this class

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• 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:

Extremely boring in lecture, and even rude sometimes. Merely reads off the powerpoint slides and goes off on pointless tangents

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

boring! the only good thing about this class is that he gives you some study questions that will be on the exam but they certainly aren't free-bees...theyre still difficult. if you have a choice, don't sign up for this teacher. no curves either

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BSCI106
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

If you are interested in Birds, he is you're man! Lab sucks and lecture is easy.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BIO103
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

ok although a little boring

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BSCI107
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Lectures aren't mandatory but in a way they are mandatory if you want to pass the class. He's a pretty easy professor if you take good notes during class. He gives study questions every lecture which are like 1/3 of the exam. One thing I didn't like is that he doesn't teach from the book.