Reviews of professor Joe Eakes

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures were easy to access, and his exams were a little difficult and proctored online. I enjoyed the course material, but I hated the labs in this class. I had limited access to plants for the experiments, and the supplies and plants were quite costly. The lab shouldn't have been offered online. It was hard to do and keep up at home.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Eakes genuinely cares about his students and horticulture. Fall 2018 was his first semester at CSU & in this area so his first test was a lot harder than expected. As a business major, I found this class challenging but he allowed the entire class to correct the first test & gave study guides for the rest of the exams. Go to lab and study hard.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm really not a science person but I loved this class. I had Brendan as a GTA and they were both really helpful and really caring. The tests are a little difficult but as long as you watch the lectures you'll be fine. There's also quite a few projects but they're pretty straight forward and you have a ton of time to complete them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Rate my professor required me to select up to 3 tags for this professor and let me tell you, none of these tags apply. This professor has quite honestly been one of the worst professors I've had throughout my academic career here at CSU. I took his class online, he was very unresponsive, slow at grading, and all around uncaring for his students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took Hort100 as a business student to meet my science/lab requirement. The teacher previous was known to have one of the easiest classes, since it's an entry level class. The new professor's class was some of the most difficult material resulting in classwide failure on multiple tests and quizzes. Hort major should take, very knowledgeable guy.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There was a disconnect between the course material and exams. students will CONSTANLY be purchasing expensive plants for labs that Prof. Eakes doesn't bother to finish. The online course seemed a nuisance to him and he clearly did not care to teach the course or modern propagation practices. Prof. Eakes seems to be at CSU to research, not teach.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Loved taking Joe's class. I'm not very science oriented but he made it easy to understand. If you like plants I'd definitely recommend taking this class! (You get a free house plant!)