Reviews of professor James Watkins

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Grades don't follow rubric. Marks down over personal pref rather than objective measure. We're told to "write for a chosen audience," but if you wrote a technical doc intended for technical people he would mark it down because he did not understand it. Failed to grade a paper due to an error on his part. Admitted the mistake, but would not regrade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor pushes all the course work upon the GE's. Every week we had lab and the GE was always behind on the material. She even mis graded some of my labs. I brought this to his attention, simply stating that the GE's had too much on their and he told me to asked another GE for help. He is unhelpful and so are his GE's.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Geology is boring, but James makes it fun! You need personality when you teach a class about rocks and landforms and James is the funniest person I have ever met. I actually look forward to going to the lectures. ps easy part of your grade, in class clicker questions, he always goes over the answer before closing the poll! highly recommend!!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Standard lecture course. Can be a little boring at times but still great teacher who is passionate about the subject. No complaints. Midterm and FInal.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
All of the grading and work is put unto the GEs making things difficult when trying to communicate. I had taken classes before, no problems. This term, communication was terrible, I was unable to find anything with the GE, which never got resolved, leaving several of my assignments missing from their hand. They just have too much put on them.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Interesting class and fairly easy

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Watkins is very enthusiastic, passionate, and knowledgeable. That being said, he's kind of a tough grader. Attend class regularly and ask the GEs questions on labs, and you should do okay.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Watkins is a very entertaining professor, however, he often strays off topic.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Watkins is someone who's clearly passionate about the subject. He genuinely wants to make as many students care about the class as he can. He was funny and gave good lectures. You can probably get a B as long as you go to the lectures and turn in all the labs and homework. However, to do well on exams, you might need to put in extra work.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Overall I think Professor Watkins was a good professor, but he often times taught topics that were "out of the scope of the course" meaning they were topics that would not appear on tests which might be a bit confusing, but overall was a fun class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amazing professor loved his teaching style. Super funny guy and all around very nice. Definitely make sure to stop in on his office hours and check out all his cool stuff!!! Class is an easy A as long as you literally show up to class and do the 1 hw assignment a week thats it.