Reviews of professor David Gold

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Wonderful professor. Took this class because I enjoy the topic and he is a great professor. Three quizzes that are online and have unlimited retakes. Offers extra credit for going to class, but lectures are recorded. Makes concepts simple for those who do not have a background in science. Highly recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Just overall a great professor. The homework and exams are straightforward and directly from the lectures. And incredibly interesting (if you like dinosaurs).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Gold was a pleasure to have as a professor. He honestly got me very interested in paleobiology and fossils. His class is very straightforward. As long as you do the work and keep up with the material you will be fine. I would definitely take another class with him in the future!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The activities were great with us getting unlimited attempts, but the final was difficult compared to it. I felt like the final was more difficult because it was open-note during quarantine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Made a lot of changes in policies to make the class as easy as possible. Attendance is graded but the way he set it up last quarter made it possible to get around it and still get counted if you don't go, but he'll probably fix that next quarter because I think he realized towards the end. Very nice and responsive

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I was super excited to take this class on dinos, and he ruined it. He spent time talking about science concepts that you learn in middle school, and then only talked about literally everything but dinos. There was 1 lecture on dinos. He also said he wasn't gonna use the textbook, and then puts two questions from the book on the final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
David is a good professor. You can tell that he is passionate about what he is teaching. A lot of the material in this class is similar bis 2b, just with an emphasis in fossils. He does offer extra credit and takes attendance through participation questions on canvas.