Reviews of professor Derek Sweeney

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
wrost prof i have ever had
will not respond to emails
could not get into textbook
unorganized
makes no sense
slides are just pictures - i had to look up and learn almost everything by myself
rambles

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Self taught everything. All he does is rant about topics not important to the class. Avoid if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
PLEASE!!!! If you can take EBIO with ANY other professor, do it. Derek's lectures are messy and all over the place. He often goes on long tangents that don't have to do with the lecture at all and his slides are very unorganized. He's a nice guy, but his unstructured way of teaching makes this class unbearable.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is a very kind and passionate profesor. I think we knows he cant make you memorize the content at the lecture so he just makes it very digestable and easy to understand. If you actually want to learn you have to go over the material again, specially because there is so many names to learn. GREAT profesor infects you with his passion every class

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Sweeney is a very very nice person who just doesn't convey information very effectively. His lectures are very unfocused and slides that are vital can be up for 30 secs while useless ones can be up for half the class. 70% of grades are from very strange tests that can feel very unfair. Overall he's just very frustrating, but very nice.