Reviews of professor Bao Nguyen-Phuc

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a good person and means well but just can't explain concepts clearly. The textbook is mandatory since you can't really understand anything with only the lectures. The written portion of exams are incredibly memorization heavy, and the multiple choice questions are insanely difficult. This makes the course more difficult than it should be.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Unengaging, sounds unsure of the topics presented, is difficult to listen to because of all his pauses and "umm"s mid sentence. Class content is very basic

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He doesn't believe in posting his notes before class for you to look at during the lecture and when you go to review them after class they are mostly nothing more than a series of pictures that if you didn't catch what he said during class you never get. He is also very weak at explaining what the concepts are in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doesnt adequately listen to student concerns, multiple choice questions on his exams are not designed to test knowledge, takes more than 2 days to respond to emails. Also, you wont have the notes during lecture because he refuses to post them until after the lecture.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tan is a really nice person and super passionate about ecology -- however, I just didn't like how he taught this course. Lectures were extremely long and his expectations for exams didn't make sense; memorizing formulas and longwinded, tricky MC questions that don't represent learning the material? He made it so unnecessarily difficult

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He acts antagonistically in terms of student academic enrichment. He refuses to post lecture notes because he can't update files and wants active learning. Fine, however slides are sparse and contain arrays of images. It's difficult to take notes because of his cacophony of "ums," "yeah," and "like," and assigned readings don't supplement lectures.