Reviews of professor Jesper Johansen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
One of the worst bio instructors you could probably take. Very disinterested in material and lectures are heavy and boring. Try to avoid him if possible.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Taking Bio 201 at UFV is very difficult. With some of the worst professors in the Science department, mainly Leon Carlos Guevara and Nathan Bialas. Jesper speaks English as a second language and though he tries his best to be clear and concise, he can't help his very prominent stutter. Play his lectures at 1.75x speed. He's a caring and great guy.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a nice guy, but geez, the lectures are all videos that are 2.5 hours long and about an hour is him trying to say something but he keeps repeating the same thing. However, the quiz and tests are really fair. He gives us 4 Q and we get to chose 2 that we want to answer. Overall hes alright, its just those lectures that are hard to get through.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Had Jesper as my lab prof (no formal grade for the lab). He is one of the very best. He is incredibly helpful with the in person experiments. His expectations were pretty high but his grading was more than fair. He does this to prepare students for upper level labs, and I found this helpful. Highly recommend taking Jesper for any bio course or lab!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I don't recommend taking any classes with his teacher. He is very nice and cares towards his students but his tests/ exams are insane. I started studying for his exams 2-3 weeks in advance and would feel pretty confident in the subjects but he tests on things that were barely mentioned in his lectures or in the textbook,

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
he is a cool professor, but when it came to doing stuff wrong he wouldn't offer an explanation on how to fix it, just tell you it was wrong. felt that he had high expectations for a first-year course. when he wasnt available to run the class, he had another prof teach it. that in itself was fine, but he was disappointed when we did what they expect

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very cool guy, clearly likes what he's teaching. Easy to talk to about any questions. Class was pretty tough to take with all the lectures to watch outside of class since I took the condensed course, but outside of watching lectures the class felt pretty reasonable.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He seems like a really nice guy who cares about his students, but I found his class difficult. Lectures are long and dry, he'd admit on midterms a question was worded poorly resulting in most students losing marks, but wouldn't adjust our grades for it. He might expect too much from his students, I've never struggled so much in a class before.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
(late review. Took bio 111 with Jesper fall of 2022). Jesper is easily the best prof I've had at UFV. His lectures were incredibly in depth and summarized the most important concepts of the textbook. He was also incredibly helpful and went out of his way to meet outside of class hours. His exams were very fair and were easy to study for.