Gordon Burghardt - University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Professor: Gordon Burghardt
Department: Psychology
College: University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PSY546
  • Grade Received: B-
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Despite getting the highest grade on all of the exams (90 avg), I still almost made a C in the class because of pop quizzes. Asks extremely specific questions and sometimes counts AGAINST you for getting it wrong. Burghardt is laughably condescending. You'd think you're talking to a celebrity with how self-important he is. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC370
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Be ready to put effort in. Dr. Burghart is very old school, so make sure you know what you're getting into before signing up. He is from the North so many southerners don't take his tone in the right way, but he means not harm by it. Lots of reading quizzes and lecture heavy, but overall a great class if its what you're passionate about!
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: PSY415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Do not take this class! The instructor is rather condescending and his TA is just as horrible. They do not really respect the views of others and talk down to the students. My personal experience was terrible. He is extremely boring and his office hours aren't as helpful as one would expect.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH489
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He was my professor for the animal psychology research lab. He definitely tells you how it is and may demand a lot, but he is also very understandable and personable if you have a working relationship with him. He is extremely well versed in his discipline and I would HIGHLY recommend learning from him.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: PSYC370
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Didn't post the syllabus until a month into class, sent an email taking us all by surprise saying our reading load had doubled for the night, expects you to get make-up notes before class when you don't have people's numbers/emails and cannot get them until class. He's very unclear. AVOID. This /WAS/ going to be my research area. Ruined it for me.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: 415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Don't take this class. I read these reviews prior to the class and decided to take it anyway. It was terrible. He doesn't appreciate others opinions or views about a reading. Also there is a ridiculous amount of readings for this class. Lastly his TA is terribly as well. A mixture of the 2 made this class miserable.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Don't take this class...ridiculous amount of material that all seems irrelevant. I'm not afraid of hard work...but 50+ pages per class period is a graduate course. He's rather rude, kinda degrading, his TA for the section is just as terrible and obnoxious so that didn't help. Listen to the ratings for this professor regardless of interest level.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class was ridiculous! I am a senior and a psychology major and this is by far the most difficult and boring class I have taken at UT. I highly recommend not taking this class!!!
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I have never rated any professor before but because this class was SO bad and because he was the most boring teacher I have ever had, I want to warn anyone who thinks about taking this class or this teacher in general...DON'T DO IT.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: PSY415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I absolutely regretted signing up for his class. My cumulative GPA, as a senior at UT, is 3.88. Needless to say, I am neither unintelligent nor a slacker, but this class was just miserable.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: PSY489
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
extremely intelligent, one of my favorite classes of my college career. it was evolutionary psychology, senior seminar. man i loved that class. i think if people think it's boring it might just be they're not that into the material or something.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Most boring class I've taken at UT. Seriously.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH489
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His classes are a combination of ethology, human psychology, biopsychology, and research psychology. If you are not serious about the subject then you are in the wrong class. If you want to be a well rounded psychologist/ethologist/bio or neuro psychologist/research psychologist then you need to at least attend some of his lectures.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: PSYCH415
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Not a fun class
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: PSY430
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: PSY525
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
You could actually watch the oxygen leave the room.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: PSY320
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A psychologist who'd rather be a biologist.
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