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Rachel Lamb GEOG415 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/22/2023	Professor Lamb is very knowledgeable in both the coursework and her own work. For the class, there are many things you need to do in order to pass. The class is graded by few things. You will have to read and memorize the key facts, statistics, methodology, author name, and publication date of 45 academic journals/articles, as well as do an intensive group project, paper, and presentation. All of the notes that you will write and study will be based on each reading(s) that you are required to read in specific days and weeks. Then, you will present your notes on the readings for participation during lecture sessions. The first assignment you will do for the class is the midterm exam which will be based on the first several weeks of readings that you have read and gone over in class. The final exam is a mix of the midterm and some new readings. For the group work, you must participate, commit, and complete to whatever role you are given from your teammates. This class may sound easy on the cover, but the reality of it all is that you will need to fully commit in studying everything, otherwise, you will fail the class. This class requires both time management and critical reading & analysis.
Rachel Lamb GEOG415 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/14/2023	Professor Lamb is a very smart and powerful young woman, whose primary job is the Senior Climate Advisor for the State of Maryland. With that being said, DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE UNLESS YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING A CAREER IN CLIMATE CHANGE/SUSTAINABILITY/LAND USE. You will have to read and memorize the key facts, statistics, methodology, author name, and publication date of 45 ACADEMIC JOURNALS, as well as do an intensive group project and paper. This course is much harder than any other 400-level course I have taken as an ENSP (Land Use) major. If you struggle with time management and commitment, DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE. There are no standard lectures in this course, instead, we just a review a handful of academic journal articles a day, mostly led by the students who are assigned an article to present on.
George Hurtt GEOG415 Expecting an A- Anonymous 09/08/2021	Took class in Spring 2021. Live lectures were pointless to attend most weeks as he did a lot of monologue on off topics. Had a group "research" project to do over the semester which was sporadically mentioned and checked in on over the semester (for which guidelines were unclear and confusing a good majority of the time). The 2 closed note exams were identical formats. Both were unreasonable for the amount of time he expected us to complete them in (1 hr 15 min with 3 sections which included matching, fill in blanks, and short answers for undergrads, but also a fourth long essay for grad students) and based on random details from the research papers he assigned (when I say random he wanted specific percents recalled in one of the fill-in-the-blanks).

Rachel Lamb
GEOG415

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/22/2023

Professor Lamb is very knowledgeable in both the coursework and her own work. For the class, there are many things you need to do in order to pass. The class is graded by few things. You will have to read and memorize the key facts, statistics, methodology, author name, and publication date of 45 academic journals/articles, as well as do an intensive group project, paper, and presentation. All of the notes that you will write and study will be based on each reading(s) that you are required to read in specific days and weeks. Then, you will present your notes on the readings for participation during lecture sessions. The first assignment you will do for the class is the midterm exam which will be based on the first several weeks of readings that you have read and gone over in class. The final exam is a mix of the midterm and some new readings. For the group work, you must participate, commit, and complete to whatever role you are given from your teammates. This class may sound easy on the cover, but the reality of it all is that you will need to fully commit in studying everything, otherwise, you will fail the class. This class requires both time management and critical reading & analysis.

Rachel Lamb
GEOG415

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/14/2023

Professor Lamb is a very smart and powerful young woman, whose primary job is the Senior Climate Advisor for the State of Maryland. With that being said, DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE UNLESS YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING A CAREER IN CLIMATE CHANGE/SUSTAINABILITY/LAND USE. You will have to read and memorize the key facts, statistics, methodology, author name, and publication date of 45 ACADEMIC JOURNALS, as well as do an intensive group project and paper. This course is much harder than any other 400-level course I have taken as an ENSP (Land Use) major. If you struggle with time management and commitment, DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE. There are no standard lectures in this course, instead, we just a review a handful of academic journal articles a day, mostly led by the students who are assigned an article to present on.

George Hurtt
GEOG415

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
09/08/2021

Took class in Spring 2021. Live lectures were pointless to attend most weeks as he did a lot of monologue on off topics. Had a group "research" project to do over the semester which was sporadically mentioned and checked in on over the semester (for which guidelines were unclear and confusing a good majority of the time). The 2 closed note exams were identical formats. Both were unreasonable for the amount of time he expected us to complete them in (1 hr 15 min with 3 sections which included matching, fill in blanks, and short answers for undergrads, but also a fourth long essay for grad students) and based on random details from the research papers he assigned (when I say random he wanted specific percents recalled in one of the fill-in-the-blanks).

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