Reviews of professor Tim Markowitz

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Markowitz is awesome! He has so many incredible stories from the field that you know you're learning from someone extremely credible. His tests are very fair and nothing has ever been on one that wasn't seen in lecture.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed this class. the class is set up so that your grade is a reflection of your work rather than just on a test. if you do the work you will get a good grade. the teacher is passionate and genuinely cares about his students. kinda fast lectures, interesting if you like animals.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took his summer marine mammals class in 2019 and had so much fun! He's super passionate about marine mammals and knows how to have a good joke. I originally was taking the class for credits but left with a huge appreciation for the topic and marine mammal wellbeing!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
THE WORST PROFESSOR I HAVE HAD. UNBELIEVABLY UNORGANIZED, DOES NOT EVEN SPECIFY WHAT HE EXPECTS ON HIS ASSIGNMENTS. DOES NOT GRADE ANYTHING UNTIL THE FINAL. EMAIL HIM FOR HELP AND CLARIFICATION? --> HE DOESN'T RESPOND. STAY AWAY FROM HIM, EW.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof Markowitz is one of the best professor at Cal! He is an enthusiastic lecturer so it's never boring. His midterms are fair and contents are all from lectures. I love how he talks about his experience in Alaska and New Zealand and also gave us so many relevant and interested extra credit opportunities.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Markowitz is extremely passionate about marine mammals, especially cetaceans, but unorganized. There are a few things that will be graded throughout the course and is kind of unresponsive with his emails. Also, make sure to be on top of the course schedule because the professor does not remind you until the same week of the exam.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Someone needs to give this professor his ADHD meds bc he's all over the place. Extremely unorganized. The lack of commitment to the class is frustrating. He doesn't care about the material and thinks that just because he's energetic during lectures where all he does is read off of slides, we don't notice his HORRIBLE teaching skills.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Talks about stories that tie in with the lecture. Material is easy to follow.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course itself was fun bc I liked the content. Only issue I had with this course tht wasn't my fault: we had 2? lectures where we went to this storage area to look at the bones the school had. A bunch of us moving around the stalls to try and get a glance at dem bones was not fun:( but other than that, funny professor and ok quizzes and tests.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
this class was a mess this semester. deadlines were unclear and often changed, half of the notices for quizzes didn't get sent out, and almost none of my grades were in (including homework from before spring break) until after i had taken the final. clearly super passionate about the subject but just so unorganized