Reviews of professor Ananias Escalante

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Escalante was a really terrible lecturer. He was difficult to listen to due to his accent and incompetence with the microphone in the lecture hall. His slides were painfully dense at times, and painfully tasteless at others. Many students would fall asleep during his lectures due to the repetitive content and incomprehensible speech. I didn't learn

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Just avoid him! this professor is unfair and disrespectful to students. there is no work or anything to do in the class, nothing to prepare you for the midterm or the final. each one of them is 40% of the grade and the other 20% is attendance which is monitored through quizzes every week. Do yourself a favor and find a different Bio elective

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Bio3241 was difficult but Escalante is a great prof. On tuesdays he lectured and thursdays we discussed an article, as long as you show you've tried to understand it he will help, just ask questions. Most grade is the final paper, topic you choice of parasites or depends species, needs to be written in Trends in Ecology Evolution journal format.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
For this class, my advice is to take detailed notes on the power points and readings and you will be fine. He is a nice guy and his content is interesting. I genuinely found this class to be an easy A, and there are up to 5 points of extra credit that will be added to your final grade if you do well on the extra credit quizzes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Overall he seems like a nice guy, just the way he builds and teaches the class is awful. you have 2 exams (midterm and final) that are worth together 80% of the grade. for the final exam, you need to read about 1000 slides, and the questions he has on the exam are specific memorization of everything. Do not take him in in-person classes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
First half of the class was boring lectures. One take home midterm that was relatively easy. Second half of the class was discussion which gave me so much anxiety I never wanted to go to class. Only graded on 3 things: midterm, final paper with unclear requirements, and participation. Barely learned anything from this class. Don't recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class consists of research papers you will have to read before each class. As long as you read and do your best participating in class discussion, you will do well in this class. You also have a final paper. I actually really enjoyed the readings and learned a lot in this class. Dr. Escalante is very knowledgeable and class discussions were fun

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you are looking to spend time and money take his class. First, he is very disrespectful to students, your questions will not be answered! No office hours, only before an exam he gives 1 hour to 100 students. He does not reply to emails - don't try. Do not approach him at the beginning of the class cause he will ignore you.
Avoid him.