Reviews of professor Alan Schenkel

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Always has the best analogies for things and is genuinely encouraging.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He makes really good analogies for things. He is very disorganized so you need to go through your notes and reorganize them for how you understand them. He was honestly one of the better professors for immunology because he made it very clear what was going to be on the exam and what to not bother memorizing. Go to recitation and go to class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures very dense at first but material easy to understand overall. He is vary fair and the questions he asks on exams are very fair. Once you get into the swing of things the material flows easily and logically. Yes you need to put in some work outside of class, but if you do that a good grade is very possible.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Schenkel is a big science nerd and is SUPER passionate about what he teaches. His lectures are a little scattered, but has good tips for remembering tricky concepts in immunology. If you need help it's not hard to get ahold of him and he cares about getting to know his students, which is a plus. Funny on occasion and fun class overall

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Alan Schenkel is one of the worst professors I have ever had. His lecture notes are horribly organized, he is super scatter-brained, and overall makes it very difficult to understand basic material in immunology. He claims he gives a good overview of immunology, but that's not the case. Lectures consist of him spitting random facts at the class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Gets side tracked in lecture and makes up for it by flying through difficult topics. His lectures often contradict the book and his quizzes are not on the stated chapters. Passing this class requires a lot of outside resources and rewatching his lectures multiple times to slow down the important concepts and skip his tangents. TA not helpful.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Immunology at CSU is taught in a very strange way. It doesn't feel like you start at the bottom and work your way up the knowledge chain. It feels like you're just jumping around, learning bits and pieces of things here and there. I think the whole class should be restructured, but it probably is the way it is because of professor expertises.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
"Immunology comes in a variety of flavors" Lots of content and lectures aren't the most organized, but the content is interesting and Dr. Schenkel is a fantastic professor