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Ronald Luna GEOG100 Anonymous 09/19/2013	Dr. Luna reads reviews about himself. He is very narcissitic. Easy class, he despises upper classmen.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/29/2012	Easy peezy class. Luna is pompous and irritating. I never went to class. Discussion is the most boring 50 minutes I've ever spent every Friday at 10am and the TA barely spoke English. I did learn some from this course but it was self taught from his slides the night before the multiple choice exams. Very easy course but not very enticing. I enjoy geography but Luna made me skip almost every class. Don't buy the book. The atlas is cool but only because I love maps.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/09/2012	I took this class for my SB core credit. and wanted an easy A. It proved out to be just for that. Learned lil from this course and there was not even need of buying the book. Prof Luna posts his presentations (often criticized for unnecessarily long and with incorrect English) online for a day which are more than enough to get an A in this course. There are 3 midterms and no finals which are all multiple choice questions and are very easy. There are points for attending the discussions and Luna tries to give the exam question in his lecture to boost the attendance (which drops exponentially as semester ends). He also gives a study guide (during his lecture) from which he makes the exam.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A PossePrincess 11/10/2011	I'm a senior, and had to take a geography class when I changed my major from ecology to environmental science and policy. I picked this one because I hoped it would be an easy A. It is, so far. I didn't study for the first exam, only went to half the lectures, and got a 90%. Tests are from the lecture slides, which he takes down after a day. Discussion is graded and pointless. I learned nothing and found the group assignments to be unhelpful and tedious. Im typically really good about going to class, but I resented attending this one. Dr. Luna makes huge generalizations, assumes his students to be completely ignorant because we're American and therefore are uneducated about the world and are not aware of the fact that everything is made in China, for instance, or that not everyone in the world has a cellphone. I found him offensive, uninteresting, and a poor lecturer. His biggest pet peeve is people not coming to class, he mentions it in every lecture and instructs students not to give anyone their lecture notes, because if they say they were sick, or there was a death in the family, they are lying. So dont bother emailing him if you miss class, even for a legitimate reason. There are a couple other 100-level geography classes. I recommend taking them.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2010	Easiest class I've taken at UMD. His grammar is horrible and calls students out, but I enjoyed his class. Tests are super easy. Final is just a test and isn't cumulative. TAs are really nice. The grade is based practically on participation and attendance in discussion.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Anonymous 12/06/2010	As a junior at the University of Maryland, I am well aware that the quality and style of teaching varies from professor to professor. That being said, I feel obliged to let the university know that Dr. Luna is the poorest instructor I've had during my time at Maryland. Dr. Luna's performance as an instructor is downright unacceptable. Not only were his powerpoint presentations littered with grammatical errors, but he frequently taught erratic material to the students, confusing specific geographical processes that he should have mastered in order to teach at an institution as well received as the University of Maryland. Frankly, Ronald Luna was unable to teach the class effectively, and for him to have earned a doctorate in geography is surprising to me, given the mediocre handling he has on the subject material.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A+ Alberti 08/31/2009	Awesome teacher! He is very down to earth and funny and really cares about his students. He is the kind of professor you can get to know and have a good relationship with. Go to class and focus and you will get good grades. All the bad reviews on here are for people who don't go to class and don't do well.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A moonbeem7d 05/13/2009	For a geography class, this one wasn't too bad. Tests are straight forward and he posts lectures on blackboard. As long as you come to class and take a few notes you should get a decent grade. BEWARE!! If you plan on not coming to class, he deletes essential slides from the power point that is in class from the one that is posted on blackboard. He doesn't really refer to the text book often and you could probably get away without it, but buy the atlas, you will use it in discussion.
Ronald Luna GEOG100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/17/2008	Dr. Luna doesn't really do a whole lot more than you can just get out of the book by reading it. His lectures consist of him reading off of a power point (which you can download from blackboard without going to lecture) and drawing unhelpful pictures on the board. All of his power points have terrible grammar, and so do his tests. This class relatively easy, however, it is due more to the simplicity of the material and easy points on group work than Dr. Luna's prowess as a teacher.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Anonymous
09/19/2013

Dr. Luna reads reviews about himself. He is very narcissitic. Easy class, he despises upper classmen.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/29/2012

Easy peezy class. Luna is pompous and irritating. I never went to class. Discussion is the most boring 50 minutes I've ever spent every Friday at 10am and the TA barely spoke English. I did learn some from this course but it was self taught from his slides the night before the multiple choice exams. Very easy course but not very enticing. I enjoy geography but Luna made me skip almost every class. Don't buy the book. The atlas is cool but only because I love maps.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/09/2012

I took this class for my SB core credit. and wanted an easy A. It proved out to be just for that. Learned lil from this course and there was not even need of buying the book. Prof Luna posts his presentations (often criticized for unnecessarily long and with incorrect English) online for a day which are more than enough to get an A in this course. There are 3 midterms and no finals which are all multiple choice questions and are very easy. There are points for attending the discussions and Luna tries to give the exam question in his lecture to boost the attendance (which drops exponentially as semester ends). He also gives a study guide (during his lecture) from which he makes the exam.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A
PossePrincess
11/10/2011

I'm a senior, and had to take a geography class when I changed my major from ecology to environmental science and policy. I picked this one because I hoped it would be an easy A. It is, so far. I didn't study for the first exam, only went to half the lectures, and got a 90%. Tests are from the lecture slides, which he takes down after a day. Discussion is graded and pointless. I learned nothing and found the group assignments to be unhelpful and tedious. Im typically really good about going to class, but I resented attending this one. Dr. Luna makes huge generalizations, assumes his students to be completely ignorant because we're American and therefore are uneducated about the world and are not aware of the fact that everything is made in China, for instance, or that not everyone in the world has a cellphone. I found him offensive, uninteresting, and a poor lecturer. His biggest pet peeve is people not coming to class, he mentions it in every lecture and instructs students not to give anyone their lecture notes, because if they say they were sick, or there was a death in the family, they are lying. So dont bother emailing him if you miss class, even for a legitimate reason. There are a couple other 100-level geography classes. I recommend taking them.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/16/2010

Easiest class I've taken at UMD. His grammar is horrible and calls students out, but I enjoyed his class. Tests are super easy. Final is just a test and isn't cumulative. TAs are really nice. The grade is based practically on participation and attendance in discussion.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Anonymous
12/06/2010

As a junior at the University of Maryland, I am well aware that the quality and style of teaching varies from professor to professor. That being said, I feel obliged to let the university know that Dr. Luna is the poorest instructor I've had during my time at Maryland. Dr. Luna's performance as an instructor is downright unacceptable. Not only were his powerpoint presentations littered with grammatical errors, but he frequently taught erratic material to the students, confusing specific geographical processes that he should have mastered in order to teach at an institution as well received as the University of Maryland. Frankly, Ronald Luna was unable to teach the class effectively, and for him to have earned a doctorate in geography is surprising to me, given the mediocre handling he has on the subject material.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A+
Alberti
08/31/2009

Awesome teacher! He is very down to earth and funny and really cares about his students. He is the kind of professor you can get to know and have a good relationship with. Go to class and focus and you will get good grades. All the bad reviews on here are for people who don't go to class and don't do well.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A
moonbeem7d
05/13/2009

For a geography class, this one wasn't too bad. Tests are straight forward and he posts lectures on blackboard. As long as you come to class and take a few notes you should get a decent grade. BEWARE!! If you plan on not coming to class, he deletes essential slides from the power point that is in class from the one that is posted on blackboard. He doesn't really refer to the text book often and you could probably get away without it, but buy the atlas, you will use it in discussion.

Ronald Luna
GEOG100

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/17/2008

Dr. Luna doesn't really do a whole lot more than you can just get out of the book by reading it. His lectures consist of him reading off of a power point (which you can download from blackboard without going to lecture) and drawing unhelpful pictures on the board. All of his power points have terrible grammar, and so do his tests. This class relatively easy, however, it is due more to the simplicity of the material and easy points on group work than Dr. Luna's prowess as a teacher.

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