PHS 3620

Such a nice person and professor! Very kind. Work is mostly based on group work so if you do not like group work this class may not be the best for you. I highly encourage this class if you like thinking about environmental determinants like pollution, climate change, and more! I am a PHS major and am glad to have taken it. #tCF2020

Terrible class, don't take it if you don't have to. Easy except for the group project, which has exceptionally vague guidelines and is graded very harshly. Doing that project was one of the most stressful group project experiences I've had, because it is so unclear and unnecessarily complicated. Professor Somers and our TA Tes had totally different feedback when they commented on our draft. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

I will warn you now. If you want to be a public health major, DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE. It will turn you away. You have been warned. This class is very easy until the group project occurs, then the class ramps up. Most students do not attend class, complete the bare minimum on the learning assignments, and still receive a decent grade. This is an easy A, but I wish I would have taken a class that wasn't so boring. Looking for an A? Here you go.

Although I was really looking forward to this class, it was extremely disappointing. Professor Somers is very passive, confusing, and vague in the way he teaches, and while he passes around an attendance sheet, it is not surprising that many students skip class or do other work during lecture. Our only assignments included short reading responses and "Learning Activities", which required little time to complete - however the Issue Analysis assignment in the middle of the course was suddenly WAY more work than it should have been and had VERY unclear directions. Guest lecturers were honestly the best part of the class. Otherwise, I don't feel that I learned much from taking the class at all.

This course is a joke. There are readings "assigned" but you just need to skim them every couple weeks to do a reading reflection (super easy) and maybe once or twice a week you'll do a "learning activity" for homework which takes less than half an hour -- not to mention that those activities are graded as PARTICIPATION lol so as long as you have a decent response you'll do fine. There are guest lecturers 70% of all the classes and you don't have to pay attention at all because you're not tested on anything. There is a group issue analysis project that takes a while and is a good amount of work (you can get it done in a few days if you grind) but besides that there's not much brain power needed for this class. Topics are kinda interesting if you're into it, but take this for an easy A.

Simply put, horrible class. There is absolutely no structure and Schaeffer is a very passive professor. They make you do the readings by requiring a reading response on every chapter or article assigned, and you have to turn in your responses ~4 times during the semester. Also the group project is a complete disaster with no clear guidelines and requires A TON of work and research. DO NOT TAKE, you will regret it.