Reviews of professor Julia Buck

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Buck is a very strict teacher who will not budge from her syllabus under any circumstances. I had a death in my family and asked to make up a test and she simply said that it wasn't possible.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Definitely not meant to be a teacher. If you ask a question she will say "good question" and move on.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Wonderful professor and class! Materials are difficult but Dr. Buck is extremely thorough and passionate. Pay close attention and take lots of notes, and you'll be set! 

I highly recommend this class, even if it is a little harder at times!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Buck is a nice person but not a very good professor. Although she does provide many different methods for course delivery (in person, synchronously, or asynchronously), the lecture material is boring and not very helpful before exams. Even with detailed notes and dropping one exam, it was difficult to achieve an A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Buck was a great professor. All of the test material was gone over in class so I never had to read the textbook. All of the tests were lecture based and all the answers to the questions could be found in the notes. There were only 3 homework assignments so it was minimal work which was nice.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Buck clearly knows what she's talking about, but it's hard to have complete understanding of the topics from her lectures. The tests are SO difficult, I feel like I can't study enough.  It's hard to imagine anyone doing well on tests from just studying her lecture slides. If you need to take her class... take lots of notes and study constantly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is very unclear about how to study for her exams and believes that a class average of 75 is okay. She gives you presentations with only definitions and pictures and expects you to complete 4 exams that have 50 questions, and understand where to get that information.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly a really hard class, and Dr. Buck just had really heavy lectures which could be hard to pay attention to.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
save yourself, do not take her if you want to enjoy biology

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not meant to be a professor at all. Anyone that understood her class have a very specific learning style. She speeds through the slides, has awful handwriting, and makes you feel dumb if you don't understand.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She knew a lot about the subject and based her course on actual research about how college students learn. She is not going to give you an A, but if you work hard and pay attention, you can do really well in her class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Buck is a decent professor but he doesn't really connect topics to each other just throws a bunch of definitions at you. She moves through the slides so fast that if you are taking notes you can't finish the slide in time. Her handwriting also sucks and she uses so much shorthand it's hard to tell what she's writing.