<p>environmental sciences with m k firestone... how is it</p>
<p>is he/she a good teacher? (not on ratemyprof, only a gary firestone is...)</p>
<p>I took the course with Berry and Kondolf. I heard that Firestone's counterpart to the course is harder, but the course is easy enough that it shouldn't matter.</p>
<p>I had it just last semester with Firestone. It's not Gary Firestone teaching this course but a woman, Mary Firestone. And it's more of a two-professor joint effort...Allen Goldstein should be listed there as well. Goldstein covers topics relating to the atmosphere and Firestone covers the soil.</p>
<p>It's split since environmental science is so broad. Throughout the semester, you'll have a different guest speaker nearly every lecture to come and talk about a specialized field (fires, tundra, bees, etc).</p>
<p>One thing is essential: TAKE GOOD, DETAILED NOTES.
If you don't, you're screwed on the problem sets and the exams. Everything was lecture based. There are assigned readings but they're never brought up so I stopped doing them. </p>
<p>It's mostly memorization. Most students who took it last semester had AP Environmental Science in high school; if you didn't, you're not really at a disadvantage. I'm just putting it out there because you should have some interest and desire to learn about the subject. Review your notes and problem sets and you should do well (I got an A).</p>
<p>40-36-16-3-5
A--B--C--D-F</p>
<p>That's the grade distribution for Firestone's ES10 class, in case you're interested.</p>