PLCY301 | PlanetTerp

Information	Review
Rachel Levine PLCY301 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/30/2023	Great TA, bring snacks for students!
Caroline Boules PLCY301 Expecting a B Anonymous 10/18/2022	She seems to be a nice professor, but her teaching style is not helpful. She reads directly off the slides and does not provide any extra information then what is on the slides. Personally, I believe that the only people who learn in this class are the ones who already have a background in environmental studies. For the midterm, we will be given only short and long essay questions, but there is no telling what the questions will be on because she goes through a plethora of topics, so it is very hard to know what to study.
Nathan Hultman PLCY301 Anonymous 05/09/2021	Honestly pretty boring. The first half of the class is spent talking about news stories that aren't relevant to the course material. The midterm is just essay questions that the TAs graded very generously.
Caroline Boules PLCY301 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 03/04/2021	She is a really amazing professor! She is so sweet and has a very positive energy in class. Her assignments are not too challenging and teach you a lot about climate change. She is very accommodating and understanding about things like extensions and whatnot. I did not get the best grade in her class, but if you put in the work you'll probably end up at a high B or an A. She also loves to show her cats to the class!
Nathan Hultman PLCY301 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/04/2020	This class was a very broad introduction to sustainability, so it covered a lot of different topics within it. Professor Hultman is very passionate about sustainability and this was definitely reflected in his teaching; he was always very enthusiastic and excited to have conversations with the students. The professor would go off on tangents, which were fun and entertaining, but also led to us being behind on a lot of the material. The class is a light workload; other than a research paper at the end, there was only a midterm and a final, and very few assignments in between. The readings were mostly interesting, although they were often long government documents that were hard to sit through. He brought in guest speakers which was interesting. Overall, I learned some things in the class, but I don't feel like it enhanced my knowledge of sustainability much. The class honestly felt like an afterthought to me most of the time.
Nathan Hultman PLCY301 Anonymous 03/10/2020	Professor Hultman is a nice man but this class is poorly structured. For the first 30 minutes of class, it is just him going over changes in the syllabus (yes even after a month of class, he took 30 mins to go over it b/c he included bios of our guest speakers that no one gives af about) and asking us what is going on in the world. I think he has gone over a total of 5 slides and it is halfway through the semester. Furthermore, his slides are vague so its hard to tell what he wants you to know. I have a midterm in two days and no one knows what we are supposed to be studying since the questions are supposedly short essay responses like the homework. Speaking of which, we have had only one homework assignment which he has not even graded yet even though he was supposed to get it to us soon so we know what we are doing wrong! He also assigns a lot of readings that he thinks are "interesting" but it really is not; just really tedious and annoying that it's really easy to just ignore.

Rachel Levine
PLCY301

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/30/2023

Great TA, bring snacks for students!

Caroline Boules
PLCY301

Expecting a B
Anonymous
10/18/2022

She seems to be a nice professor, but her teaching style is not helpful. She reads directly off the slides and does not provide any extra information then what is on the slides. Personally, I believe that the only people who learn in this class are the ones who already have a background in environmental studies. For the midterm, we will be given only short and long essay questions, but there is no telling what the questions will be on because she goes through a plethora of topics, so it is very hard to know what to study.

Nathan Hultman
PLCY301

Anonymous
05/09/2021

Honestly pretty boring. The first half of the class is spent talking about news stories that aren't relevant to the course material. The midterm is just essay questions that the TAs graded very generously.

Caroline Boules
PLCY301

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
03/04/2021

She is a really amazing professor! She is so sweet and has a very positive energy in class. Her assignments are not too challenging and teach you a lot about climate change. She is very accommodating and understanding about things like extensions and whatnot. I did not get the best grade in her class, but if you put in the work you'll probably end up at a high B or an A. She also loves to show her cats to the class!

Nathan Hultman
PLCY301

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
08/04/2020

This class was a very broad introduction to sustainability, so it covered a lot of different topics within it. Professor Hultman is very passionate about sustainability and this was definitely reflected in his teaching; he was always very enthusiastic and excited to have conversations with the students. The professor would go off on tangents, which were fun and entertaining, but also led to us being behind on a lot of the material. The class is a light workload; other than a research paper at the end, there was only a midterm and a final, and very few assignments in between. The readings were mostly interesting, although they were often long government documents that were hard to sit through. He brought in guest speakers which was interesting. Overall, I learned some things in the class, but I don't feel like it enhanced my knowledge of sustainability much. The class honestly felt like an afterthought to me most of the time.

Nathan Hultman
PLCY301

Anonymous
03/10/2020

Professor Hultman is a nice man but this class is poorly structured. For the first 30 minutes of class, it is just him going over changes in the syllabus (yes even after a month of class, he took 30 mins to go over it b/c he included bios of our guest speakers that no one gives af about) and asking us what is going on in the world. I think he has gone over a total of 5 slides and it is halfway through the semester. Furthermore, his slides are vague so its hard to tell what he wants you to know. I have a midterm in two days and no one knows what we are supposed to be studying since the questions are supposedly short essay responses like the homework. Speaking of which, we have had only one homework assignment which he has not even graded yet even though he was supposed to get it to us soon so we know what we are doing wrong! He also assigns a lot of readings that he thinks are "interesting" but it really is not; just really tedious and annoying that it's really easy to just ignore.

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