Reviews of professor Kevin Thaisen

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Gives good feedback and really helps you earn the best he can. Good all-around professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Horrible class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He makes you do group projects to learn about material while his lectures are pretty bland and boring. I would say that most of his group projects seems to be group participation grades.  He jokes with people that are geology majors. Quizzes and group project material is what the exams are verbatim.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Thaisen explains concepts quickly and makes jokes with the two geology majors in the class and basically doesn't explain things well enough. If you miss more than two classes on the odd day where there's an in-class assignment kiss your hopefull good grade goodbye.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Makes you study extensively for tests, there are no study guides and he gives you 10 long readings to read per week. Its a ridiculous amount of work for an elective class. He also is a tough grader and takes off points on group presentation for things that aren't on the rubrics. Also he just talks at you for the whole lecture so you cant take notes

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Even though this is a very challenging 101 course I felt as though Dr. Thaisen did great at teaching his material. As some of the other reviews have said since he covers a decent amount of material during class it will impact you poorly if you decide to skip a class, which can be solved by just not skipping. If you pay attention you'll do fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
group project is a lot of points but super easy., he goes fast on notes so sometimes you're better off reading the chapter

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not a horrible class, he's a decent guy and can explain some things quite well. However, the lectures can get really boring and majority of the time he reads from the slides which are posted on canvas.