Reviews of professor Jeffrey Divino

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have had more issues with this course than both PNB 2274 AND PNB 2275 combined. Incredibly specific questions for such a large variety of animals. I thoroughly liked human A&P, but this course gives me nausea. Divino's lectures have NO theme, structure, or organization. God bless anyone that has to take this.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is an awful class. i'd do all worksheets, study guides, attend every lecture, etc. and still get a D on exams, which are usually the average too. Each exam is 40 Qs from a pool of 120 that he hasnt looked at in a year, so some are fully irrelevant. Get ready to answer how many middle ear bones are in ten different species of vertebrates.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. this class asks far too much of its students and is impossible to manage on top of a normal work load. There are 4 exams plus a project, the 4 exams have brutal questions on them even if you had studied for multiple hours and days. divino is nice but his teaching is TERRIBLE

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is such a nice professor, but this class was very hard and demanding. The exams were brutal and specific so you have to know the information very well to do good on the exams. There are 4 exams and an optional final, a final project on a species with bonus points, quizzes, and participation points. He posts his lectures which is very accessible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class not comprehending how in depth the final project would be. I was made aware the first day but should've realized how much work he expected from us over the span of the semester for the project on TOP of very heavy exams. It's manageable if you have no other difficult courses, but is overall unnecessarily tedious.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Divino is a super nice guy but this class has been by far very difficult to study for. I enjoyed PNB 2274 WAY better than this class, and its one of the most dreaded courses at UCONN. Theres minuscule details you have to remember about SO many animals. I am good at understanding the big picture which is what should be the focus in a PNB course

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is one of the most caring professors I have had at UConn. He genuinely cares about his students learning and you can definitely tell. However, his tests are one of the hardest Ive ever had. He posts 20 slide power points with another huge page of text underneath every slide. He doesnt even test on general concepts, specific bullet points!!