Reviews of professor Alex Bans

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
DOESNT EXPLAIN ANYTHING!!!!! All of the guidelines for an assignment are given randomly in lectures, and if you dont pay attention and quickly write them down, you wont know what to do. Basically, he assigns stuff but doesnt explain how to do it. The last lab we had had absolutely no guidelines aside from people asking questions in class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Alex was pretty funny sometimes but class was very boring. We asked questions about assignments and he only answered the simple questions. I asked "What do you want to see in an introduction?" and he goes on to explain what a hypothesis is as if I'm 10. I think he failed to realize that most of the class knows science, we're just not STEM majors.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want to do assignments a full two times, take this course. He would set a date, no one would understand the assignment, he would answer questions in a condescending manner, then end up changing the due date the day the paper/ lab was due because no one understood what he wanted.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Our labs and reading didn't make sense when matched with what we were doing. He wasn't prepared most of the time. We had 3 versions of our syllabus. There were constant changes being made. He focused on non-important things. He didn't ask questions about our understanding until we told him to ask. We had multiple assignments due dates pushed back.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Alex's passion for ecology, science, and the environment made the class energetic and fun. He kept the labs simple and really helped us through all of it. He clearly cared about everyone in the class, and worked to help us all succeed. Above all else he was approachable and treated us like peers, not just like students. Alex deserves a raise.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
An absolute sweetheart and fun guy. His syllabus makes him seem tougher than he is. If you need an extension he will give it to you. Need help on the labs? He'll give you hits. His grading isn't very strict so if you read through his rubric, example paper/presentation and the instruction, you will do well. He's very kind.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Alex did a good job of breaking down assignments knowing that a few students who werent majoring in the STEM field. Hes always open to answering questions and always encouraged students to attend his office hours if they didnt understand something. Utmost, Alex is very passionate about what he teaches, and cares about students success.