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Ralph Bennett
ARCH272 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/13/2025 |
The guest lecturers are fine until they ramble on about something way beyond our comprehension. He posts the slides and we have quizzes based on them, but some questions are very loosely tied to the lecture. The midterm and final had horrible study guides and were short-answer questions that were difficult and unfair. At least our research is interesting and learning about sustainability initiatives around campus is cool. |
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Ralph Bennett
ARCH272 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/08/2025 |
This class is ridiculous. Guest lectures EVERY Tuesday and pointless discussions every Thursday. Major assignments consist of a research paper with a ROUGH DRAFT that's worth a significant amount of your grade and a presentation. If you're thinking of taking this class to satisfy your DSNS or DSSP, SCIS requirements, take something else. You don't really learn or retain any useful information in this class. |
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Ralph Bennett
ARCH272 Expecting a B- hop 04/01/2025 |
Not interesting! The class is all lectures and the quizzes are easy enough but the assignments are not communicated well and the exams are near impossible. He expects you to just know stuff and isn't a huge help. |
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Ralph Bennett
ARCH430 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/17/2024 |
Do not recommend taking it the final exam was based on extremely specific information that he did not suggest to study. The Leed exam was way easier which he did not write. |
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Ralph Bennett
ARCH430 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2024 |
Professor Bennett is a sweet old man but can not teach this class to save his life. I think he lectured a total of 2 times and the rest were guest lecturers. I have no idea how to study for the final exam because there isn't any structure to the guest lecturers either, they usually come in to talk about their jobs for 50% of the presentation, not about the broader connections to architecture. If you want to take this class for the LEED Green Associate accreditation, don't. You had to take the LEED exam by the middle of October and honestly it isn't a hard exam to do, just do it on your own time. |
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Ralph Bennett
ARCH272 Expecting a B- Anonymous 10/18/2022 |
He is a nice guy but a horrible Professor. For this class, he did not teach a single lecture. We had guest lectures for every class and he did nothing but go over the guest lecture's slides during the discussion section. If you have him as a TA, good luck. He grades very harsh and is very vague on what he wants. His rubric will say one thing but he deducts points on parts that were not specified on the rubric. |
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Ralph Bennett
ARCH289I Expecting an A Anonymous 05/31/2019 |
Ralph is a nice guy but ARCH289I is super boring, and the final exam is really difficult because it pulls arcane things from each of the individual presentations that aren't related at all. |
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Ralph Bennett
Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/09/2018 |
He is a very nice guy. His class is hard to follow because guest lecturers come each week and have presentations. Make sure you ask him what is on the exam so you are clear. |