Reviews of professor Douglas Bird

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Doug is a super cool guy, he gives a lot of extra credit. For example, right now I am typing a project that will boost my grade 8 percent. But the fact that he feels the need to give an assignment worth 8% extra credit shows that he is too frickin hard. Everyone fails. Class should be a joke but it's the hardest class I've taken at this school. ):

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I thought I would like this class, but I thought the way the material was presented was unnecessarily dense. Prof. Bird is very knowledgeable and passionate, but I don't think he is the best at teaching this material, I never knew what to take notes on. His TAs also graded everything, so got no real feedback from him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Passionate, Funny, SO Knowledgeable, Awesome experience. Made me fall in love with a subject I didn't really care for, curious about things I didn't ever think about, activist and caring.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Bird is very passionate about what he teaches but i found him to be pretty scatterbrained and the lecture slides to be confusing to follow. attendance is graded but only with clickers and only during some classes. only a midterm and a final both worth most of your grade plus a few random assignments. not the best not the worst

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
HE IS SO AMAZING! His class is only lectures, but his homework has a range of different types so you're not always reading out of the same boring textbook. He also loves the topic that he teaches which makes him that much better of a professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gives one midterm worth 200 points that completely dictates your performance in the class yet speaks nothing of it until the TA releases a half-ass study guide 2 days before the exam. If you screw that up, kiss your chance of a decent grade goodbye. He gives zero chance to improve upon a grade worth that many points, despite the EC assignment.