<p>which professor is a good prof the genetics for the fall semester. I searched the forums, but Pierson is not teaching for the next semester in fall.
Finklea, Bierner, mohanty, Neubauer, Saxena, Atkinson.
From myedu, Mohanty seems to have the highest distribution of A's because she also teaches at ACC (lower standards perhaps?). I am leaning towards taking her at this point.</p>
<p>I have gotten recommendations on finklea and loathings on her. don't know which to side with.</p>
<p>Someone has told me Saxena was a bad professor.</p>
<p>My friend took genetics at UT. He got a verry bad professor from what I heard nobody did well in his class. Absolute Horror Story for the whole semester. He failed to listen to his friends that told him this teacher was bad.</p>
<p>I’m also trying to choose a professor for genetics. I’m trying to decide between Bierner and Mohanty.</p>
<p>Mohanty seems inexperienced/new and according to the review on MyEdu, it sounds like she’s still experimenting with the class. Things could change the the number of students getting A’s can drastically change.</p>
<p>Bierner has a good rating overall, but that’s mostly from the other classes he teaches. There are few reviews for genetics and those are not good. It sounds like he’s uninteresting and not a very good teacher. People say they learn nothing from his lecture. He goes into detail for the easy stuff, not leave out the hard material.</p>
<p>There’s not enough information about Mohanty, so I’m reluctant to go that direction. Bierner just doesn’t sound like a good professor. Does anyone have advice on who I should take?</p>
<p>I’ve learned to not take new/inexperienced profs. Bierner seems like my kind of prof, just reading the book and notes to do well.
Though I’d like some advice on who I should take too!</p>
<p>more people sharing my thread than contributing here… lol…</p>
<p>Well, for reviews like myedu, another element to keep in mind is that the usual students pleased with their grades would not comment on those kind of sites, while students who comment on these sites are the students will feel so irritated or displeased about the instructor that he or she feels “the worth to punch back” so to speak. </p>
<p>So that single comment about Mohanty might be from only that kind of student (to answer sprintuser’s response)</p>
<p>And sprintuser, Neubauer also has many positive reviews about him teaching genetics… on myedu. </p>
<p>And I might try to declare TIP temporarily to get into neubauer’s genetics class.</p>
<p>And as far as inexperienced profs., I actually go the other direction. some experienced and tenured profs [cough… my ogro prof. cough] feel like they are so Up there that they don’t bother teaching well to their students. But as for the inexperienced or graduate students teaching the class, they need to teach well because their teaching reviews will reflect on the rating of their graduate education.</p>
<p>Also, if you complain about a grad student/ inexperienced teacher, that complaint will have an effect while tenured professors could care less if you spoke to the omsbudsperson about them.
that is my two cents.
Now can some other students actually help us by suggesting someone to take? lol.</p>
<p>Oh, if you guys were wondering why Prof. Pierson is not teaching next fall. I obtained a very reliable source (one of my friends taking him) in which Pierson confided to her that he will not be at UT next semester because the budget cuts. So the budget shortfall does affect natural sciences as well</p>
<p>I don’t know about “permanent”, but if UT tells someone they won’t be hiring them next semester, wouldn’t that be “permanent”. I will have to ask my friend again.</p>
<p>A fair number of lecturers at UT also work at ACC. One of the favorite organic chem lecturers (Bocknack) just left UT for ACC because UT is swinging an indiscriminate axe through the ranks of lecturers. Pierson was another student favorite, but he’s gone for budget reasons.</p>
<p>So I like refreshed the BIO 325 registration page for 2 straight hours this morning and finally got lucky with a waitlist in Bierner. And yeah, I’ve heard that Bocknack was a pretty good ochem prof. Now I’m hoping I get Iverson for that lol (which probably won’t happen). I have Siegel right now. :/</p>
