Reviews of professor Russ Furse

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
NO HOMEWORK! The only opportunity we had to learn was listening to his boring voice talk to us and sidetrack twice a week for an hour, or read the long and fruitless textbook. Unless you can learn something pretty complicated just by hearing it said once and maybe reading over it, you will do terribly. You get very few things to get marks on. AWFUL

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
As an Arts major, I was obviously nervous to take this class. Russ made the class engaging, interesting and fun. I nearly had to do the term project alone, he stepped in and made allowances to make things work out. While I worked hard for my grade, having Russ care about me as a person really helped. 100% would take his class again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Russ is one of the best instructors I have had! I went in knowing very little about astronomy and he stayed behind almost every class to help students. He really passionate about teaching and he's funny during lectures. If you put in the work (read the textbook, listen to hints, form study groups, ask questions, don't miss class) you can do well!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He knows his stuff and he is a great person but a horrible teacher. Lectures are mandatory for the participation mark. Goes off on tangents for 3/4 lecture while constantly saying, "you dont need to know this," then goes quickly over what we do need to know. Purposefully hard questions with extremely limited time to think let alone type it out

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
You suck at math? Don't take ASTRO101, physics will eat you alive. Great character, rambles a little, focuses on non-related content more than content that you will be tested on. Random critical thinking questions on tests, hard for a good mark unless you memorize each day's contents and go back to the PowerPoint folder he uses. Overall he's ok