Reviews of professor Julia Buck

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She was not meant to be a professor, she clearly has more of an interest in research. She is not considerate at all, she is not friendly. She gets off topic very easily, and going through and note taking lectures does not help on the exam.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Buck is very kind and passionate about her work. She can often get a bit intense and overzealous, which can be intimidating or off-putting to some students. She is extremely intelligent and very willing to help however she can. Her exams can be difficult but if you study the notes well and review concepts thoroughly you can pass!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I loved Dr. Buck honestly. The way she delivers material is accessible for students of all learning types. She posts literally everything done in class. She walks you through the homework assignments. It is a lot of material, but she delivers it in a super clear way. And she has the answer to any question you ask, no matter how ridiculous.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Everything, and I mean everything, students have written negative reviews about Dr. Buck and this course are true. Exams have purposeful confusing wording, material not used from lecture. She seems to not understand how to explain things well, like others have said. I do NOT recommend taking this course. She is the worst professor Ive ever had.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Buck seems to know a lot about the subject but doesn't explain anything well. Learned mostly from the textbook. Exams are NOTHING like the lectures. She expects you to understand material off of a very basic and unexplained lecture.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Buck loves this class.If you study & go to class, you will pass and her tests are easy IF you study. She has multiple choice, written in questions & a small essay. Some questions on the test are made to give points to people who show up to class. She's hard to reach so catch her in class.Overall good class. I learned a lot.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's very knowledgeable but an awful professor. She's truly interesting and a great scientist but I don't believe she should be teaching this class. She's a disease ecologist (I believe) and she tends to dive more into that topic rather than actually talk about ecology as a whole. Throws definitions at you the whole class and that's it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Buck lecture are plain, she gives definitions for most of the class period. Her tests are specific compared to the her lectures. Other than tests there are two hw assignments and tophat that hardly counts for anything. She is very not understanding for any situations and does not round. I do not believe it is worth your effort to take her.