Trevor Charles - University of Waterloo

Professor: Trevor Charles
Department: Biology
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: BIO240
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Hes a good prof
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL431
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Dr Charles taught this class in a way that looked a specific mechanisms and gave you a good general picture. If you're willing to put in equal time in lecture and outside lecture studying, you'll do well :) Tips: Attendance is a must. Notes are a must. See him in person if you are having trouble -he is very helpful!
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: BIO240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
not many online lecture videos so it was easy during the year, but he was almost never available for help and responded to student questions super late (if at all) and advice was never helpful. Little structure for assignments and the practice set of questions we got for the final contained only NINE questions. he doesn't care about the course
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I wouldn't say the online course is structured nicely but the workload for the online course was little. Individual assign. don't take much of your time and the one minute summaries are literally free grades thrown at you. The group assignment wasn't that great but the lecture notes are clear and he's very passionate when it comes to teaching.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL431
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Charles is very knowledge on the subject matter and is extremely helpful when it comes to answer questions promptly. I found the course extremely interesting and helpful. I would definitely recommend this course to students who have a fond interest in molecular biology. The marking scheme is also very flexible and favors the students greatly!
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL431
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Excellent prof, really knows his stuff. Always available and willing to answer questions, flexible grading scheme, really interesting course and taught by a professor who is obviously passionate about his work. If you're falling asleep in his lectures you're in the wrong program. Every lecture makes you really think about things in a different way.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
If you watch all the lectures and put a descent amount of effort into the assignments you really cant go wrong. Now, if you try to half ass your way through the assignments that's when you start to lose marks. Trevor is a smart guy, after all he's the graduate chair in biol so put some effort and i guarantee you'll learn a lot and get a good grade
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
HORRIBLE ONLINE SET UP. AVOID IT FOR SURE. EXAM IS DIFFICULT. He does not have anything organized, jumps from random topics, shows no enthusiasm to teach online class. Group project is just irrelevant.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL240
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Horrible set up of online course. In-depth material and VERY VERY VERY hard exam. DO NOT TAKE.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL240
  • 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:
Avoid distance education course.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL431
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is so busy and seldom replies the email. The course was very hard because sometime we didn't know what he would ask during the exam.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Not very clear in terms of expectations for assignments online and the material is dense...
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
the good: easy assignments, no textbook need. The bad: boring lectures, NO samples tests/old final exams. If you study the lecture notes, you would do well on the final.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Course is big on genetics. In that light it's too bad we can't cross him with Alan Morgan and Ruth Malinowski. We might get an organism that actually knew how to teach students, one that wasn't boring as all get out and one that actually gave a damn.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He may be smart but he set up a real crappy Distance Ed course. If I knew what this would be like I never would have touched it with a ten foot pole. Stupid, stupid group assignment that drags on and on for weeks and really dumb individual assignments. Also have to submit a multiple choice question every friggin' week on the horrible ACE system.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very nice guy, very passionate about his bacteria :) but the class is sooooo boring, rows of people fall asleep each class.. the exam for the lab was BRUTAL
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • 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:
SOOOOOO BORINGGGGG.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great guy, always willing to help. yet at the same time, he can put everyone in the classroom to sleep with his random powerpoint slides which jump from one random fact to another. exams are hard in that you don't know what to expect sometimes.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL431
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
talks about his son often. skipped BIOL 140 after first 3 hour lecture..got 85. went to every class for BIOL 431 and barely managed 68. DO NOT TAKE BIOL 431 if you have not taken at least BIOL 208/308/241...i had only taken BIOL 330 and 140 prior to 431. He's damn lazy and midterms are worth a lot. He has a flex marking scheme for 431 tho.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL140
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a decent prof. who knows his stuff but not necessarily gud at teachin the stuff partly b/c it is literally impossible to stay a wake in his class. There somethin abt his voice so if you think you can stay a awake which so far i havn;t been able to and i usually dun sleep in class then go ahead take the class you will learn a lot.
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