<p>What can y'all tell me about the following professors?</p>
<p>AST 301: Dodson-Robinson and Winget
ECO 304K: Hamermesh and Hickenbottom
UGS 302-Culture in Contact SPN/MEX/AM SW: Reed
HIS 315K: Seaholm</p>
<p>You should get myedu.com. </p>
<p>AST 301- Theres no data on Dodson-Robinson. Winget overall GPA is 3.65. Gives out 36% A’s, 44% B’s. Reviews say he’s a good teacher, but his tests are sort of hard. Would go with Winget.</p>
<p>Eco304K- Both of them are hard. Hickenbottom gives out more As (18% vs 13%), but overall GPA goes to Hamermesh (2.9 vs 2.47). More positive reviews for Hemermesh.</p>
<p>UGS 302- Reed is bad. All the other professors give out 50%+ A’s. He gives out 21% A’s. 43% B’s. Overall 2.43.</p>
<p>HIS 315K- Seaholm not so great either. 15% A’s, 40% B’s, 30% C’s.</p>
<p>“UGS 302- Reed is bad. All the other professors give out 50%+ A’s. He gives out 21% A’s. 43% B’s. Overall 2.43.”</p>
<p>It sounds like maybe he’s really good, and the others are don’t teach so much; you’ll learn more from Reed when you get that A. But if they give the same test, maybe Reed doesn’t teach as well. All speculation.</p>
<p>Winget is awesome. For no reason at all at the end of the semester he gave us the opportunity to get up to 6 points added to our final grade. His class is hella boring though. And the tests are NOT hard. </p>
<p>He gives us practice tests and a lot of the questions on the real test are word or word from the practice test. Basically if you studied the practice test you’d get at least a B on the test if you showed up to class every once and a while. It’s pretty impossible to fail that class.</p>
<p>I would avoid taking Astronomy if you can unless you want to take a shot with Winget. I had a guy named Dr. Robinson and the class was tough with a heavy dose of chem and physics involved, definitely NOT for non-science majors!</p>
<p>As for ECON, either wait until the Spring to take it or find someone other then Hamermesh to take it with. Hamermesh sucks and his class is based on a curve so you have to compete with the rest of the class for As.</p>
<p>Lol @ vossron- UGS is suppose to be an easy class. Many teachers at UT make it harder than its suppose to be and Reed is that perfect example.</p>
<p>As for its being speculation, you can also say the professors with higher overall GPAs are better teachers because their students performed better. In the end, I would go with a better GPA professor. Good overall GPA for a professor correlates, majority of the time, to good reviews left by their former students. This site and the GPA numbers are just tools for you to evaluate the professors. There are also evaluations that correlate their good overall GPA. If you want to pick professors who give out fewer As, you go ahead. Good luck.</p>
<p>Last Fall 09 there were two teachers for Accounting 311 that had a good percentage of A’s, one had 30% and the other had 35%. The one with 30% had amazing reviews and everybody loved him. The one with 35% had horrible reviews. Apparently the 35% had just curved the class a lot and nobody really learned anything. The one with 30% has students do very well in future related classes, and people felt they really learned a lot and understood rather than memorized problems.</p>
<p>So, the one with the highest A percentage is not always the best. Now, there were about 4 other teachers teaching this class and they were all <20% A’s with medium or poor reviews, so picking the lowest isn’t always that good of an idea, obviously.</p>
<p>That is why I included “majority of the time.” If i’m using this site, I take into consideration the student reviews, GPA ratio, and the evaluations. If there were two professors with no reviews, I would pick the professor who handed out more A’s. For UGS specifically, there are 50+ teachers with 50%+ A’s handed out with tons of positive reviews. Reed is the minority with 21% As with no reviews. The overall A’s handed out in a UGS class is 59%. IMO, bad choice because their are a lot of professors that look more favorable.</p>
<p>I hope I’m not scaring jkaplan1212. In all honesty, you could receive an A with any professor if you work hard. Asking opinions, using myedu, etc. are just ways to know ahead of time what your getting yourself into and to judge how hard your going to have to work in order to receive that A. Your going to learn either way with any professor.</p>
<p>Okay so if Astronomy isn’t good for non-science majors what science class (6 hours of the subject) would y’all suggest?..And what econ professors are better? Bronars? Sibley? Wiseman?</p>
<p>^ I heard physical science was easy, take the professors that a lot of athletes are in or find an athlete and figure out what sciences he/she is taking. Their advisors usually pick the good ones out :)</p>
<p>As for Econ, I don’t think Bonars is teaching anymore as he has resigned the last I heard from the econ department.</p>
<p>Chemistry in Context 1 was recommended to me by an advisor. I’m definitely a non-science major. lol</p>
<p>what can y’all tell me about Tribbe and Stoff in the history dept and Sibley in economics dept</p>
<p>and Gebhardt for UGS 303: Popular Astronomy</p>
<p>You really need to get Myedu right now. Or at least look here <a href=“https://web.austin.utexas.edu/diia/cis/results/[/url]”>https://web.austin.utexas.edu/diia/cis/results/</a></p>