Tim Owens - Purdue University - West Lafayette

Professor: Tim Owens
Department: Social Science
College: Purdue University - West Lafayette
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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:
Easy and boring! Rambles A LOT. I only take 1/2 pages of notes in 65 minutes. He uses multiple examples for EVERYTHING. Offers a lot of extra credit (bonus attendence points, film reactions, and a midterm).
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good teacher. Tries to be funny a lot. Often veers of course and talks about his family and friends. Easy A for class. Test are very easy and so are exams. I missed quite a bit of class due to illness and i still got a B with out effort.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100H
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I never went to class, except to turn stuff in. Everyone in my class thought he was a bad teacher, he was very boring. But as long as you turn everything in, you'll get an A. I got perfect on my term paper and final, and an A in the class. Take it for an easy A and DONT waste your time going to class!!
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Cant stand Lecture, wastes so much time rambling on. Would finish other homework and still take notes because you would be lucky to get half a page of notes during a power hour with him.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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:
Attending lecture is a waste of everyones time. Study vocab and graphs for the tests. He could probably cover 5 times the amount of material that he actually covers if he didn't tell stories that have nothing to do with the class. The only thing to get out of this class is a good hour nap.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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:
It's like he has a thesaurus in his head because he loves to reiterate the same idea with a bazillion words. Lectures are fairly interesting to attend but the videos are kind of pointless. Lots of extra credit opportunities so an A isn't hard if you do them. He tests on details and pictures/graphs in the book. A cool guy.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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:
Class was a joke...should be renamed CommonSense 100. Owens didn't cover much material, and had taught more through showing irrelevant movies than through good teaching methods. Exams could be aced with your eyes closed, but easy exams do NOT indicate a good professor...just one that isn't terribly challenging
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: S100
  • 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:
awesome!
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
BORING!!
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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:
good class
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good teacher, easy to understand. Memorize notes for multiple choice part. My problem was the essays on the test. They (the TAs) grade those kinda tough. Test material was a mixture of text and lecture
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SOCIOLOGY100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Owens is a good teacher. Most of the time his lectures are interesting and he tells good stories, but sometimes he just babbles on and on.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Tries to be non-bias. Presents popular beliefs and theories. Tries to mix teaching styles, which sometimes works. Must attend class. Do the extra credit, it will save your butt. Doesn't curve, but gives enough extra credit that he doesn't have to.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: B-
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Owens is a nice guy. I disagree that hes "an opinionated jackass" though, he presented the facts and the gave the most popular beliefs. Kind of an interesting course if you can make it through the whole hour and fifteen!
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Unfortunately, he never covers enough material in lecture, so most of your exam studying will have to come from the book. The material presented is pretty easy, but often times is pretty boring. He also tends to show way too many documentaries, rather than teach.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Owens is sometimes a really cool guy, but most of the time he is an opinonated jackass! his lectures are boring, but he does give a lot of extra credit. If u look in the back of the book he add his own study guide- these are basically all u needed to study for the test.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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
Comment:
Good teacher, learned a lot from him, difficult "quizes" though...
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • 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:
Awesome class b/c the teacher cares!
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: SOC100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Easy class yet u still learn something
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