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Laurent Montesi
GEOL200 Anonymous 12/09/2021 |
horrible teacher. assignments are easy but all busywork. you do not actually learn anything. He should know there is an issue with making exams too hard when there are 120 points total to put out of 100 and STILL need to curve the exam. Exams are extremely difficult and the TA grades really harshly. |
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Laurent Montesi
GEOL200 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/31/2019 |
The flipped class format was a disaster. This flipped class format was supposed to make class more fun and help make learning easier and fun for students. For me it just seems like the professor is too lazy to actually teach his course. Class is just 1hr 15 min of the professor answering questions that students ask. Practically one giant Q and A, 2 times per week, that are also mandatory to go to since he gives out quizzes at the beginning of each class. Montesi also requires students to spend hours each week looking at videos of his online prerecorded lectures. Class seems like a complete waste of time since all of our learning is done by ourselves. 40% of your final grade is also determined by your group project which can either really help you or really hurt you. For me, it really hurt my grade since I got 2 non cooperative group mates and after complaining to the professor, nothing was done to help me. What I expected to be a relatively straightforward, and fun class to satisfy my gen eds turned into a extremely dull, and work heavy class that took up a large chunk of my time that I wanted to spend on other major related courses. I would not recommend anybody to take this course with Montesi. |
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Laurent Montesi
GEOL200 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/02/2018 |
Montesi was an average/slightly below average professor. The French accent isn't a problem, it's his teaching style. The class was not inherently difficult, but the "flipped lecture" format of this class is just so that he doesn't have to give lectures. Students are expected to watch 5-6, 20-30 minute videos per week on the material. His grammar isn't great and there are a lot of typos in his videos. His test questions often had typos, etc and he would have to make like 5-6 announcements during tests to correct them. All the tests are in class, open notes, and online which makes them easy to do good on, right? Not really, sometimes he asks questions on the smallest details possible and the wording is sometimes downright impossible to understand. He gives kahoot quizzes every other lecture, same story as the tests here. There isn't enough time to read and think about the questions because kahoot only gives you 30 seconds to answer. 40% of your grade is a project on a geological event of your choosing (from a list) and this is done over the whole semester. Overall easy project but his guidelines can be vague and he'll take off points for stuff that he didn't say he wanted in the first place. I got an A- because like I said it's not inherently hard it's just really tedious and annoying and not worth your time for a gen-ed. TL;DR don't take this class. |