Daniel Gruner | PlanetTerp

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Daniel Gruner BSCI361 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/13/2024	alot of work required clicker questions not worth
Daniel Gruner BSCI361 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/05/2021	I love Dr. Gruner! He is not the most interesting professor all the time, but he is super genuine and really cares about his students success. The class was not too hard and he let us drop up to two of the four exams depending how many projects we did. He is very supportive and has done some really interesting research, and is very passionate about helping students apply the class to real world scenarios. Classes involved readings before coming to lecture and an 8 point quiz, but you can retake the quiz once and everything was open note and open book.
Daniel Gruner BSCI361 rose11 12/26/2011	This class is not too difficult. A lot of the material is a review from BSCI106, but the material is very interesting. The course consists of two midterms and one final, which is not cumulative. There is also a term paper, which is graded leniently, and weekly online assignments for discussion. You must attend discussion because attendence is part of your grade. It is also important to attend lecture because there are usually clicker questions, which you get credit for answering (right or wrong). However, Gruner's exams were frustrating. He said that in previous years he gave out too many A's in the course, so perhaps he wanted to make it more challening. I did not think that this was very fair. I did well on the exams, but it seemed impossible to get an A on them. The average for my class on exams was a low B. I maintained an A in the course the entire semester, but dropped to a B+ after the final because I only received a low B on it. It was very annoying to do well in a course but then lose out because of the final. Gruner needs to reconsider his letter grading. Other than that, he is a very nice professor and very approachable.
Daniel Gruner BSCI361 Expecting an A TreeHugger90 09/02/2011	Excellent course on ecology. Good basis for if you're looking to do something worthwhile with your life and following your passion versus what your parents told you to do. His exams were fair, and we actually did better on them than he expected (go us!). Material was straightforward and from the book, nothing too tricky. I participated because I found the subject interesting, and really wouldn't have cared what grade I got because I left this class feeling like I learned some very valuable information. That's the point of education, no? I also realize there's no such thing as "too nice" but if dr. gruner could have that title, he would. Great guy. My only complaint was that it was sort of annoying having premed students asking about grades and curves all the time..
Daniel Gruner BSCI361 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 06/16/2011	AVOID THIS CLASS/AVOID DR. GRUNER. Okay, so granted Dr. Gruner may be a really nice young man, but he just can't teach, he can't write exams, and the class is a mess. I am a GENB major (pre-med) but unlikely all of my other Bio classes, this one is so heavily filled with weird Ecology/Evolution majors aka tree-huggers. They all know how these Ecology classes work so they did very well on the exams (averages were alwasy 82%+). Hence, there was no curve. Until at the end of the semester when he promised a 4-8% curve. But, he UNDERestimated how the class would do on the final (everyone did so well, not surprising) and so he "lied," he upset many students, ruined people's grades, and ended up curving a mere 1%, hence why I have a B+. I put a TON of effort into the discussion, you have to read dense/pointless articles, write summaries, and do a term paper. Dr. Judy Che led the discussion and she is so great/energetic, too bad she couldn't teach the course itself. Dr. Gruner put people to sleep, about 15 people showed up to every class sadly. And going to class doesn't help since he is TOO nice, and only puts things on the exam that is IN THE BOOK. I repeat, READ THE BOOK. He's not a good Bio professor, like Dr. Ades (and other seasoned faculty) who test on material mentioned, and on material outside of the book. Dr. Gruner is a straight from th ebook guy, but that doesn't help since the book is poorly written and there is WAY TOO MUCH material per exam. Overall, over this class and avoid Dr. Gruner. HE is a nice guy, but doesn't know the importance of grades for pre-med students. This is completely ridiculous, I got A's in classes like BSCI330, BSCI433, BSCI410, and pulled off a B+ in this supposedly joke class. Good luck folks!

Daniel Gruner
BSCI361

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/13/2024

alot of work required clicker questions not worth

Daniel Gruner
BSCI361

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/05/2021

I love Dr. Gruner! He is not the most interesting professor all the time, but he is super genuine and really cares about his students success. The class was not too hard and he let us drop up to two of the four exams depending how many projects we did. He is very supportive and has done some really interesting research, and is very passionate about helping students apply the class to real world scenarios. Classes involved readings before coming to lecture and an 8 point quiz, but you can retake the quiz once and everything was open note and open book.

Daniel Gruner
BSCI361

rose11
12/26/2011

This class is not too difficult. A lot of the material is a review from BSCI106, but the material is very interesting. The course consists of two midterms and one final, which is not cumulative. There is also a term paper, which is graded leniently, and weekly online assignments for discussion. You must attend discussion because attendence is part of your grade. It is also important to attend lecture because there are usually clicker questions, which you get credit for answering (right or wrong). However, Gruner's exams were frustrating. He said that in previous years he gave out too many A's in the course, so perhaps he wanted to make it more challening. I did not think that this was very fair. I did well on the exams, but it seemed impossible to get an A on them. The average for my class on exams was a low B. I maintained an A in the course the entire semester, but dropped to a B+ after the final because I only received a low B on it. It was very annoying to do well in a course but then lose out because of the final. Gruner needs to reconsider his letter grading. Other than that, he is a very nice professor and very approachable.

Daniel Gruner
BSCI361

Expecting an A
TreeHugger90
09/02/2011

Excellent course on ecology. Good basis for if you're looking to do something worthwhile with your life and following your passion versus what your parents told you to do. His exams were fair, and we actually did better on them than he expected (go us!). Material was straightforward and from the book, nothing too tricky. I participated because I found the subject interesting, and really wouldn't have cared what grade I got because I left this class feeling like I learned some very valuable information. That's the point of education, no? I also realize there's no such thing as "too nice" but if dr. gruner could have that title, he would. Great guy. My only complaint was that it was sort of annoying having premed students asking about grades and curves all the time..

Daniel Gruner
BSCI361

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
06/16/2011

AVOID THIS CLASS/AVOID DR. GRUNER. Okay, so granted Dr. Gruner may be a really nice young man, but he just can't teach, he can't write exams, and the class is a mess. I am a GENB major (pre-med) but unlikely all of my other Bio classes, this one is so heavily filled with weird Ecology/Evolution majors aka tree-huggers. They all know how these Ecology classes work so they did very well on the exams (averages were alwasy 82%+). Hence, there was no curve. Until at the end of the semester when he promised a 4-8% curve. But, he UNDERestimated how the class would do on the final (everyone did so well, not surprising) and so he "lied," he upset many students, ruined people's grades, and ended up curving a mere 1%, hence why I have a B+. I put a TON of effort into the discussion, you have to read dense/pointless articles, write summaries, and do a term paper. Dr. Judy Che led the discussion and she is so great/energetic, too bad she couldn't teach the course itself. Dr. Gruner put people to sleep, about 15 people showed up to every class sadly. And going to class doesn't help since he is TOO nice, and only puts things on the exam that is IN THE BOOK. I repeat, READ THE BOOK. He's not a good Bio professor, like Dr. Ades (and other seasoned faculty) who test on material mentioned, and on material outside of the book. Dr. Gruner is a straight from th ebook guy, but that doesn't help since the book is poorly written and there is WAY TOO MUCH material per exam. Overall, over this class and avoid Dr. Gruner. HE is a nice guy, but doesn't know the importance of grades for pre-med students. This is completely ridiculous, I got A's in classes like BSCI330, BSCI433, BSCI410, and pulled off a B+ in this supposedly joke class. Good luck folks!