Reviews of professor Shawn Massoni

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Massoni is a easy going guy. BHS 110 is an easy intro class that showcases the department and aims to guide students through their first year. Nothing major to do in the class, just show up and complete the required assignments (only about 10 easy things to do).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Massoni is great! This class was difficult, but what stood out the most was his willingness to make himself available to students. He will push you to get to the answer yourself, but he is there to help. He held additional office hours and help sessions several times throughout the term ahead of due dates for lab reports. Highly recommend!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Massoni is a great instructor. Test-wise he'll give you 5 "assessments" (really just ~5 short answer questions) every 2 weeks over the term. That said, those are the only things you're graded on, so make sure you do well on them. There's a generous curve applied to the class but don't rely too heavily on it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Massoni is a very nice man. You will end up writing Summary articles and midterm paper (few hundred words), and a final paper (2000 words) with some smaller weekly writing exercises (nothing crazy). You will also have to present an article to the class (Journal Club), and present a poster on the last day of class. Overall, a good class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this class concurrently with BB451 and it is likely the only reason I passed that course. Dr. Massoni is very adept at explaining incredibly difficult concepts and seems to genuinely care about the mental health of his students. There is 15%ish of extra credit on the midterms but they are very difficult. Very forgiving

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took the four week summer class of MB230 and Shawn was amazing! I've never really liked biology, but he made the class very engaging! Tests were kind of difficult, but he always explained things well in lecture (even with very boring topics).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Outstanding professor that has a lot of experience in the field of microbiology, and structured his content around applicable aspects of the curriculum with real life examples when he has used it. He is very lenient with late work and offers test retakes if you explain why you didnt do well the first time. This class wasn't easy. Study up

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Massoni is an excellent lecturer and this course in particular was probably one of the best organized courses I've ever taken. The material is complex and there is a lot of it but the course itself is not difficult to pass. That said, getting an A required a massive time investment on my part.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There are a couple small papers, two big papers, and a presentation for the class. As long as you put in a good effort for the presentation you will get full points and the papers have clear expectations. Dr. Massoni keeps class interesting and is pretty funny.