Reviews of professor Taras Oleksyk

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Oleksyk really cares about his students and genuinely wants everyone to do well in his class. He really wants to emphasize learning. Grading is generous and straightforward. You honestly have to do no work to fail this course. He is appreciated by us students! Not many professors care like he does so I'm glad I had the opportunity to take him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Oleksyk is very passionate about his work and really knows his stuff. The exams are off his lectures/powerpoints so I did not really use the textbook. All the quizzes and exams were done online with plenty of time. On exam days we did not have class, we were just required to complete the exam.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A great person who has a great teaching method. His lectures are great. The exams were not so great, as half of it felt more like vocab memorization than concepts. Id rather there be all essay questions than fill in the blank. I wouldnt want any other professor. He genuinely loves the topic and loves going into detail about things and explaining.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
he's so big on plagiarism and will possibly fail you for it. he grades very slowly and his teaching is not really teaching.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His class wasn't too bad. The assignments and quizzes were pretty easy, but beware of the midterms because they are difficult. I'm personally not a fan of evolution, so that was probably why I struggled. He's pretty lenient with grading, but try to do your best to get the grade you want because he will not round your grade for you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course is tough but manageable if you actually put the time and effort into it. Professor Oleksyk, is very caring and knowledgeable and is willing to explain concepts to you in various different ways in order to help facilitate your understanding. I highly recommend going to office hours and doing the review sheets he provides. Amazing class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Oleksyk, aka TKO, is a great professor of evolutionary biology, and an overall awesome human. He is hilarious, lectures are never boring. Unfortunately, this class was held online (COVID, what else?), but lectures were valuable. Assigned reading is a nonfiction novel, everyone enjoyed it. Exams are short-answer, multiple choice and essay format

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Oleksyk is great! He has a clear passion for evolutionary biology and truly knows his stuff! This class was lecture heavy but professor Oleksyk provided extra sources to explain specific concepts as well recorded videos that reviewed the material that we learned in class that day. Exams are fair and everything is pulled from the lectures

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Best professor!! He opened my eyes to how everything in our other biology courses really relates back to Evolutionary Biology. At first I had all these misconceptions but when I took the course I saw how wrong I was. Class was structured amazingly! "Nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution" is your golden quote for this course.