Reviews of professor Derek Sweeney

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE EBIO WITH SWEENEY ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A FIRST YEAR. This guy doest know what he's talking about. you get to class and he j starts yapping about crocs or his family. the tests are worth 70% of your entire grade so if you get off on a bad start its hard to bring it back up. from me to you... find another professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Sweeney is a nice guy but his lectures are not very helpful. He goes on long tangents on subjects that aren't super important and brushes over concepts that are on multiple questions on exams. His tests aren't overly difficult but if you struggle on tests getting a good overall grade will be difficult as they are worth 70% of final grades

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nice guy, bad teacher. His lectures are all over the place. He goes on a bunch of little confusing side rants and doesn't cover concepts well enough to really understand them. I had to teach myself everything. The textbook is long and $90. He doesn't care if you show up, and C's are always the class average on his exams. Don't get stuck with him.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Derek is a sweet guy but his lectures are boring and without having to do clickers going to his lectures was pointless. His hw assignments were easy to pass and his exams weren't too bad either. He is also very understanding and will allow students to take exams later than the assigned time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Extremely unorganized and unprepared throughout the semester. I stopped going to lecture because it wasn't worth the time and I learned much more by just reading the textbook. Would recommend taking biology with a different professor if possible.