Reviews of professor Bruce Herring

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Truly never experienced such a course. He was unbudging, if not more difficult, when it came to the COVID-19 switch. Inaccessible, posted lectures from past years that were ILLEGIBLE and oftentimes INAUDIBLE. It was evident he did not care about his students. Final curve  ??? Students scoring above avgs & median with grades that did not reflect it

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His lectures could get a little boring, especially the first few which are 100% review of other bio/neuro classes. The later lectures about neuro-related diseases are very interesting, but his exams are definitely memorization-heavy. Don't bother reading the textbook for his exams, it doesn't really help.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pretty good lecturer - however, he definitely needs to learn to quickly move through material that is not conceptually dense. Has a really funny deadpan style of lecturing and the material is super interesting, definitely a fan

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Herring is genuinely my favorite STEM professor so far. He seems to genuinely like the stuff he teaches and always checked with us to see if what he's saying made sense, which shows he really cares. His tests were fair and I enjoyed learning from him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Made zero effort to be compassionate towards his students during the transition to Zoom classes during the COVID19 classes. He posted years old lectures and never held a live zoom class, yet held students to same standards. He put no effort into adapting the class to crazy times. How do you expect students to adapt if you refuse to? avoid.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Herring gave no effort when USC moved online because of COVID-19. He never held a live lecture, was late to posting RECORDED lectures, and sometimes used horrible videos from his first year. The quality was horrible and it was hard to learn because of this. Despite most learning happening on our own, he blamed the students for being grade greedy

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Herring is not the best lecturer, but the material from his section of the class was much more straightforward. His exams are pretty much completely memorization based, though, so beware of that. Obsessed with kalirin and trio.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A little terse as a lecturer, but he passes the vibe check. Course was just like a Pixar movie: all hope is lost in the first half but redeemed by Prof. Herring when it matters most.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Distinctly horrid. Going online was pain inducing with Bruce as a professor. Unresponsive to emails, horrible presentations that skip around with no clear titles. Like a way less clear, funny, and helpful Dion with the same expectations. Loves himself and Kalirin and Trio so much everyone complains to each other about it.