Beth Braker - Occidental College

Professor: Beth Braker
Department: Science
College: Occidental College
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: BIO103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I loved Dr. Braker! She may not be the most organized on assignments and that type of thing, but she is clearly very passionate about ecology. She really made us all feel like we could succeed in science field. Her classes were interesting and often brought in good guest speakers. I would absolutely take another one of her classes.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: BIO103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
This is one of those classes that's kind of a joke. I think Braker is a nice person, but she's all over the place and often late. The TA, Bryce, did all of the work essentially. I recommend this class to get the math/science requirement out of the way, but it will feel like a waste of time. On the bright side, it's not work heavy.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Braker is hilarious and truly bonds with all of her students by the end of the semester. The class however, is disorganized. She takes forever to grade assignments and tests and will sometimes lose the assignments we were supposed to complete. Overall, she is an amazing teacher for anybody looking to fulfill their bio requirement.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
She is the cutest most amazing person. Anyone would love her and her class. She really gives you opportunities and tries to give you a good grade. The only thing that was frustrating was the amount of homework. There is a lot of homework but particularly the amount of reading is ridiculous and so pple don't even try to read it.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Braker is very enthusiastic and funny. Field trips and labs are a lot of fun. Doesn't take attendance but uses in class polls to count participation points. Textbook readings aren't useful. Tests focus on lecture material. Tests are a straight forward, esp if you've taken biology (more big picture like ecology, evolution, phylogeny) in high school.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Braker is overall a pretty good professor, although she is a bit disorganized and assigns a little more reading/work than she needs to (although you don't need to do it all to do well in the class!). She is engaging and it is obvious that she is passionate about her subject. It's kind of cute how excited she gets sometimes.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Never used the stupid ebook txt book. Tests are basically the lecture slides and you get 1 sheet of paper to with notes on, both sides. iClicker is a waste of money, but you need it for dumb stuff. Field trips were cool, and very different, but time consuming of course. As a kines major choose this over zoology if you want the easy route.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Stupid class, Decent professor. She is sometimes unorganized, but she isn't bad at all and if you talk with her she is very cool. Idky she has the hot chili. Maybe back in the day, but Zellmer and Loni(?) Martin are way hotter as of now. Zellmer also lectured a few times and I did enjoyed them more. But I hear braker is better for lab/research.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: BIO106
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Super awesome. Go to her office hours and she'll really explain things in detail.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: BIO270
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's a really sweet professor but I have to admit she was pretty disorganized.When I turned in my work to Braker, she would tell me to turn it in to her assistant bc "she wouldn't lose it like she did".The class field trips are awesome though.We camped out and had smores and just talked around a fire place.She's awesome!
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: BIO105
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Braker is really nice but it's true, she is disorganized. Hands things back late. Her lectures are kind of engaging, but she relies on PowerPoint too much. I really enjoyed the field trips. A good class for non majors.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: BIO110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Disorgnaized in everyway. Made several errors on my test when grading and was actually mad when I went to question her about it. Seems to have a periphal knowledge and struggles when asked more in depth questions. Definetely has favorites, so if you decide to take this class be prepared to kiss up.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: BIO106
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's funny, and a great person, but her lectures are pretty disorganized and it takes her a long time to get things back to you.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: ECOLOGY
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A nice person who teaches an interesting subject - BUT she is very disorganized. Other than that, she's really a great teacher.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: BIOLOGY120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Braker clearly enjoys what she does, and is a nice person. She teaches a little fast, but is clear and really likes to help her students.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: BIO105
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really interesting class but lots of people take it just to fulfill lab science. It's easy, so I guess that's a plus. Lots of fun field trips and she's really into the subject so it made me more interested. Go on the extra field trips if you can, Joshua Tree was amazing.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: ECOLOGY
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Braker's lectures are informative and clear, but mediocre as far as interesting-ness. But she's friendly and extremely helpful outside of class.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: BIO131
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's a hottie and a very nice professor. Woof!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: BIO120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
While I really like her as a person, I found this course confusing. Exams often did not refect our study guides and the course lacked cohesion. But great person, really.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: BIO120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
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