Reviews of professor Ariane Cantin

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cantin is an okay prof. I wish there were some smaller assignments throughout the semester instead of the entire grade coming from exams and the lab. Her lectures could be organized better. Don't expect her to accommodate you if anything happens, if you use your free extensions she will not help you after that regardless of the circumstance.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great at explaining and lecturing, but lab weighting was insignificant to the weight of the exams. The final in particular was unforgiving and could swing a perfect grade down a lot.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cantin is actually a decent prof, but I'm leaving this review to warn everyone to NEVER TAKE BIO STATS(BIOL315) ITS ONE OF THE WORST IVE EVER TAKEN! They restructured this semester and its no longer an easy-ish A AT ALL. Seriously so hard and so much work. DONT TAKE UNLESS YOU HAVE TO!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Cantin is a good professor. Her lectures were good and she was understanding when my lab group made a large error in our project. She is passionate about ecology and is willing to hear feedback. Her tests had a few tricky questions. You should expect that the tests are application based and require a more than surface level understanding.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was great overall. The lab is the hardest part of the course and bit frustrating but beneficial to learning, try to get in a group with people you know. Lectures are easy, she's very approachable and enthusiastic. Her tests are fair, people are complaining too much, tests are supposed to be difficult. University is not a walk in the park.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Cantin was an amazing prof for this course, she explained everything very well. The labs were planned and organized really well, giving you lots of time to write a whole research paper. Not to mention, her lectures were really fun as well and useful to attend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's a wonderful prof who clearly loves what she does and really cares about whether the students understand a topic or not. Will dedicate hours to answering on discussion boards and creates practice test for midterm/final. Lab is all research based with a group, so be ready to become bffs with Google Scholar. Notes were very detailed too

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Cantin was accessible via email and office hours. The tests were very difficult although the content seems simple. It's upsetting how much tests impact your grade, so I would recommend working on test taking skills if you're not a good test taker and thoroughly understand the content inside and out even with the addition of a cheat sheet.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although she was enthusiastic about her teaching and explained concepts really well, her course outline was horrible. Your grade came strictly from labs and exams, where the labs were marked very strictly and marks were cut over every little thing, bringing your lab grade down immensely. Tests were hard but only bc cheat sheet was given.