Reviews of professor Andrew Whittemore

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you're great at memorizing information, this class is for you. Dr. Whittemore definitely knows city planning, but the class is based around text-filled power points that you have to memorize for the exams. Lectures were hard to pay attention in, make sure to take pictures of the slides. He's a nice guy, just needs to change his teaching style.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Whittemore is a great guy, but his lectures can be very boring. It is plain black and white text and him talking the whole time with a monotone voice. If students participate it breaks up the lecture a bit and makes it more engaging. Overall it was a good class to take; it is reading intensive and a lot of memorization.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had a great TA for this class which really helped. Lectures were boring, but I watched them async bc of work and could double the speed and still keep up. Tests were pretty straightforward if you pay attention during recitation. Not a super difficult grader, which is nice. Passionate and knowledgable.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Whittemore absolutely knows his stuff and is a great guy. The lectures however... they are incredibly boring. TAs are also nice but not super helpful. If you are a good notetaker/memorizer you can succeed in this class but otherwise... wouldn't recommend, especially if you already have a heavy courseload.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
To be honest, the lectures are incredibly boring. Assignments are just time consuming group projects, and don't expect to understand your grades beyond a 3 sentence comment. Also was not accommodating whatsoever during the coronavirus, thinks his class is more important than people's lives. Gives preference to grad students. Avoid at all costs!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I didn't read the textbook and I went to class maybe 7 times throughout the semester and I passed the class easily. The exams were a bit challenging but if you studied for like 4 hours before you'd be fine to pass and there we two papers that I did well on but they are based on your hometown so they are pretty easy to BS

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is very passionate about planning and knows what he is talking about. Lectures can be boring, and the PowerPoint slides are very long (take pictures of them). The exams are difficult but manageable if you put in the extra effort. However, he is a very nice guy who genuinely wants you to be successful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Bad news: Lectures are long and require a lot of note-taking from the slides. Your entire grade is essentially two papers and two exams. A lot of readings are assigned. Good news: He is very understanding and kind + really knowledgeable on the topic. The papers' rubrics are not terrible and he does review sessions for exams.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Readings are posted on Sakai, textbook is good to read but he puts everything you need to know in his powerpoints. He refuses to post those online and takes attendance every day, so it's best to show up to succeed. Otherwise textbook isn't necessary.