George Hurtt

This professor has taught: GEOG140, GEOG301, GEOG398H, GEOG415, GEOG442, GEOG615, GEOG642, GEOG748F

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George Hurtt GEOG140 Anonymous 03/13/2024	Average on 1st exam is 63% at the time of writing this. You can read the textbook, review the slides, look at the GLE's, practice the flashcards, and still get destroyed. He picked the most minor, minuscule details from a 300 page textbook and over 200 slides, that no sane person will remember. The only way to have gotten an A on this exam was to have reviewed daily with 15+ hours plus of studying a few days before the exam. This is a 100 level general education course. The professor's attitude is incredibly condescending if you ask him a question. His TA's specifically told us not to worry about specific details during lecture review. Speaking of lecture review, we were additionally given no study guide or practice exam. I spent less time studying for my discrete mathematics course and got a higher grade. The sad thing is, I highly doubt he'll even care about the low scores. Hopefully I'm wrong.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Anonymous 03/13/2024	Just walked out of the exam. As the reviews mentioned, Hurtt decided to host the exam in-person for "reliable internet connection." If so, why did a lot of students struggle to connect to Eduroam? Good thing—the TAs prepared for this and had a few printed exams, HOWEVER, that was not enough to keep up with demand. They ran out and had to go print more. Some students took the exam on their phones. An absolute mess. The average for the first exam came out to be a grand total of 63% give or take, median was 64%. He reads right off his slides, so don't bother going to lecture and just read the textbook. Also, memorize every small detail because it might be on your exam. Based on the grade data, around 50% of students got an A-/A in previous semesters, which is respectable. This semester is a different story. This class should not have been changed.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Expecting a W Anonymous 03/13/2024	DO NOT TAKE!! Test questions look like they were pulled straight from a 400 level class. Questions are on complete minusha. Hurtt is a terrible lecturer and has no idea what's happening in his own class. We didn't know whether the exam was in-person until two days before the exam, as he said it's "strongly recommended" to take it in person, and then decided that somehow meant required. The head TA Robyn is extremely demeaning to both students and the other TAs.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/13/2024	Quite shocked to find that his rating was so low. Hurtt mainly keeps lecture to reviewing material in the textbook with some current events. Attending lecture isn't at all mandatory and if you read the textbook, you should be fine. Pretty easy gen ed class but still very interesting. Kinda like having a slightly harder 8th grade Earth sciences class. Lectures are super laid back for those who chose to attend, and he clearly cares about what he's teaching. To the people who said this class was difficult or harder than expected, consider dropping out. Homework graded for completion literally makes up 25% of your grade. The final project is only 5 pages long. And to the person who said he changed the format of the lecture last minute, no he did not. You just weren't paying attention as the test was always going to be in person / hybrid with exception given if you had a schedule conflict. If you are looking for an easy but engaging Gen-ed, I would recommend this professor's course.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Anonymous 03/12/2024	This professor absolutely sucks do not take him. Lectures are extremely boring and class is made harder than it should be. Took for Easy gen ed and ended up being super hard.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Expecting a W Anonymous 03/12/2024	Class is simply a joke. Horrible instruction and awful TA's. Took as an easy gen ed but is becoming stressful and a waste of time. DO NOT RECOMMEND!
George Hurtt GEOG140 Anonymous 03/10/2024	Class is boring, and not helpful at all.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 03/10/2024	Horrible professor. He changed the exam from remote online to in-person two weeks before the first midterm. The lectures are honestly extremely boring and do not help at all. Read the textbook and memorize all the minutiae cause you will probably be tested on those. Current events were good but only added to more work. Do not take this class with this professor. The course itself is easy but the professor made it so much harder.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/31/2024	Lectures were pretty boring and 99% of the information could be found in the textbook. The worst though, were that the exams were on very tiny meaningless facts ("how many people died in Hurricane Katrina), and the answers were specifically from the textbook. So while studying you couldn't google "How many people died in Hurricane Katrina" because actual estimates vary a lot and you need the specific and likely inaccurate answer from the textbook. It made the class weirdly difficult, because not everyone can memorize every associated fact with every natural disaster, especially very arbitrary numbers like that. Also, I went to talk to this professor in person and he was incredibly rude and condescending--there was a miscommunication early in the conversation and whenever I tried to clear it up he would just get angrier at me and imply I was stupid for miscommunicating in the first place.
George Hurtt GEOG140 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/21/2023	Hurtt is a pretty nice guy and not a bad lecturer. The content is quite interesting and he incorporates current, relevant natural disasters into the curriculum. Lectures are not mandatory, and most information can be gleaned from the online E-Book and slideshows, which are posted on ELMS. Class is 25% online homework, which is automatically full points if you just do it - you don't lose points for wrong answers, and it ended up amounting to <20 minutes per week. 25% each for a midterm and the final exam, which were 40-something multiple choice question ELMS quizzes. He gave the option to take them remotely, which was cool of him, and the exams themselves felt perfectly fair (B average). Last 25% is two parts: a 1 page summary assignment about a natural disaster and a 5 page paper elaborating on the summary that were both graded very kindly (median grades were 20 out of 20 and 88 out of 90). A lot of people stopped coming to lectures because you can honestly skip most of them and get an A, so he offered extra credit assignments for people who attended, which was sweet. Overall, solid gen-ed if you want a good grade without a lot of effort, but the class is really quite fascinating if you do.
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).