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Thomas Holtz GEOL102 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/30/2025	Genuinely one of the greatest professors I've ever had, and probably ever will. Super enthusiastic about teaching. Very knowledgeable about anything geology or paleontology. He can seemingly answer any question you have about any of those topics. It's honestly mind blowing. Class structure is nice. I have his class MWF, and while attendance isn't technically a grade, there is a daily "Question of the Day", graded 5 points for completion. These QotDs only make up 8% of your overall grade, and his lectures are all posted online. Having his class on 9 am across campus, it's a bit tough to get myself to go, especially Mondays and Fridays, but I still recommend attending as many lectures as possible, despite how easy it is to catch up on missed notes.
Thomas Holtz GEOL102 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/04/2024	If you want a super easy gen ed I would not recommend. There is a 5 point attendance grade every class, you can miss 5 though. There is an insane amount of information to learn it's basically impossible to do all of the homeworks and midterms without looking up answers. There are 10 homeworks about 1 a week and the lowest one is dropped, but some of them were difficult and you can't really look up the answers. There are 3 midterms that were online, the final is also online. They are all timed and all multiple choice. If you are interested in the subject and have extra time to learn everything than you will be fine but if you want an easy A don't take this.
Thomas Holtz GEOL102 Expecting an A Fabian Castro 11/17/2011	This guy sucks. He's so stubborn and he's just plain annoying. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU DON'T NEED IT!!
Thomas Holtz GEOL102 Expecting an A+ vaalbara 05/19/2010	Great guy. He's honestly interested in the stuff he teaches (and it shows). Class is pretty straightforward - lecture is optional, but it's probably in your best interest to go since his tests are based more off lecture than the book (which I never opened). He makes a lot of corny jokes (and internet references...), and his tests usually have an abundance of extra credit points.
Thomas Holtz GEOL102 Anonymous 01/19/2008	Great teacher. He tells rather corny jokes, but covers the material very well and lets you know exactly whats going to be on the exams.

Thomas Holtz
GEOL102

Expecting a B
Anonymous
04/30/2025

Genuinely one of the greatest professors I've ever had, and probably ever will. Super enthusiastic about teaching. Very knowledgeable about anything geology or paleontology. He can seemingly answer any question you have about any of those topics. It's honestly mind blowing. Class structure is nice. I have his class MWF, and while attendance isn't technically a grade, there is a daily "Question of the Day", graded 5 points for completion. These QotDs only make up 8% of your overall grade, and his lectures are all posted online. Having his class on 9 am across campus, it's a bit tough to get myself to go, especially Mondays and Fridays, but I still recommend attending as many lectures as possible, despite how easy it is to catch up on missed notes.

Thomas Holtz
GEOL102

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/04/2024

If you want a super easy gen ed I would not recommend. There is a 5 point attendance grade every class, you can miss 5 though. There is an insane amount of information to learn it's basically impossible to do all of the homeworks and midterms without looking up answers. There are 10 homeworks about 1 a week and the lowest one is dropped, but some of them were difficult and you can't really look up the answers. There are 3 midterms that were online, the final is also online. They are all timed and all multiple choice. If you are interested in the subject and have extra time to learn everything than you will be fine but if you want an easy A don't take this.

Thomas Holtz
GEOL102

Expecting an A
Fabian Castro
11/17/2011

This guy sucks. He's so stubborn and he's just plain annoying. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU DON'T NEED IT!!

Thomas Holtz
GEOL102

Expecting an A+
vaalbara
05/19/2010

Great guy. He's honestly interested in the stuff he teaches (and it shows). Class is pretty straightforward - lecture is optional, but it's probably in your best interest to go since his tests are based more off lecture than the book (which I never opened). He makes a lot of corny jokes (and internet references...), and his tests usually have an abundance of extra credit points.

Thomas Holtz
GEOL102

Anonymous
01/19/2008

Great teacher. He tells rather corny jokes, but covers the material very well and lets you know exactly whats going to be on the exams.

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