Reviews of professor Baptiste Journaux

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
this french man did in fact crack me up, and to whoever said he would be the guy to hit you with a baguette, I have never read anything more accurate about this class. I love space but this class was boring and hard to follow and caught me off guard that we learned legit rocket science. he also likes to casually drop that he works for NASA lol

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amazing class. Gave us a view of Space exploration that is often not explored in popular culture, but is SOOOO much more interesting than I could have expected. Everything also made a lot of sense and was presented in a understandable way!

He also had great stories about space exploration.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Baptiste is a chad. The man has a thick French accent and probably beats dirty Americans with a baguette on the daily. Quite a funny guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Journaux's lectures were a joy to attend; he's charismatic, funny, & passionate about what he does. Take good notes & do not miss labs, they are essential to your grade (I learned this the hard way). I see some students had trouble with his accent but this was a non-issue for me, he mentions regularly that he can repeat/clarify if needed.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Awesome lectures that give good surface level information on a wide variety of related topics. Awesome French accent. Normal online assignments are easy.
The lab assignments though are terrible and graded harshly. The final project also sneaks up on you if you take the writing credit.
Not too bad, wish the lab was better.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not take this class. He isn't difficult to understand, his english is good so I do not agree with those complaints. However, the class is just lectures, there is never any discussion. He doesn't engage or really teach, he just talks for an hour then you are quizzed on minute details. You have to take notes on everything he says to do well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Funny guy and really tries his best to answer all questions in class or afterwards. The quizzes are a decent part of your grade, but if you just pay attention in class and take notes then you'll get through them no problem. The paper was broken down into milestones which were very doable and I got great feedback.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took ESS102 expecting an easy, 100-level class with not a ton of work and I was greeted with a heavy workload, long, complicated lectures, and a hard to understand professor. I think Prof Journaux was a nice guy who was passionate about his material but the actual teaching was subpar, shame.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really passionate about the subject! If you actually go to lectures and pay attention you will learn a lot:) He has a lot of information and is always giving us extra little NASA tidbits or surprising space facts. Essay is somewhat long so don't procrastinate