Reviews of professor Casey DeRoo

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Made lectures fun and explained material multiple times if the class didn't understand. Clear lecture slides and demonstrations. Exams were difficult but were all curved. Interesting class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Casey is a great professor. He makes class entertaining, engages his students, and offers plenty of assistance outside of class. Also, people on here say his exams are difficult, but they really aren't. Just pay attention in lecture and you'll do well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
very bubbly and happy guy. gets to know kids in his lecture, hard tests, but keeps it real w ya

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm convinced Casey would literally give an arm if it meant I passed an exam. If you go to his office hours for help, he will do ANYTHING to ensure you pass (short of just giving you an A). Extremely non-major friendly. Very reasonable on grading and he's willing to admit if he made an exam too difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Really funny and amazing dude. Had all slides and clicker questions in TopHat available for use anytime. Homework is online, easy, and actually helps you learn. Tests were multiple choice and not hard. He releases a study guide along with a practice test before every exam. A couple different ways to earn extra credit.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had a love-hate relationship with this Gen-Ed because it's very math heavy but interesting. Prof DeRoo did a nice job of keeping the energy positive during lecture. He makes his expectations very clear and had a good group of lab TAs. He understands everything very well and is able to teach it in a way that non-astronomy majors can understand.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There is not a professor I can recommend taking a class with more than I recommend Prof. Deroo. The lectures are intriguing and interesting. He is also extremely easy to talk to and work with he wants you to succeed in his class and is willing to work with you to help you succeed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
As far as gen-ed courses go, this is a tough one. Definitely did not think that an astronomy gen-ed course would have me studying for hours just to get a B on my exams. Professor Deroo was an awesome lecturer, but his tests were very difficult. We learned so much in class, it was hard to know exactly what to study for during the exams.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DeRoo fails to comprehend that his introductory stars class is typically fulfilling a gen-ed requirement. DeRoo consistently assures himself to the class that his exams are not hard, but intentionally makes them challenging. He also lectured the class for leaving early and threatened to hold top hat attendance over the class's head for doing so.