Erin Eggleston
Prof. Eggleston is a very nice professor who cares a lot about the material. However, eco evo just was not one of my personal favorite interests so was a little boring at times. While prof. Eggleston is very knowledgable I found that her slides weren't always well organized and her grading on exams were pretty tough but there is ample opportunity to earn points back.
Professor Eggleston is a good professor when it comes to teaching; it is just that the material of Ecology and Evolution is not for everybody (including myself). The Wednesday discussion sections are also quite boring.
I enjoyed the content of this class, but I honestly cannot recommend taking it with Prof. Eggleston. She is genuinely a nice person, and clearly has knowledge of the material, but her grading methods are likely the worst I've ever experienced. A lot of this class is advertised as "effort-based" or "yes/no" grading (at least according to the syllabus), but this is generally not the case. All grading is based on rubrics that are neither intuitive or available until AFTER the assignment is graded, making it more of a guessing game than actually feeling like a good performance will be rewarded. Some of my best work received awful grades (think 60%), while something I cooked up an hour before class started received a 100 because it just happened to match the rubric (again, NOT available prior to grading). Average grades are shown on Canvas, and I can't find a single one where the class average exceeds a 75. The material in this class is not exceptionally difficult, and the assignments themselves aren't incredibly time-consuming (although they are often bunched strangely, resulting in you doing nothing for several weeks and then having three major assignments due in a 1 or 2-day period), but I often felt really discouraged in this class, as I felt like my effort never paid off, even when my performances were strong.
I enjoyed the content of this class, but I honestly cannot recommend taking it with Prof. Eggleston. She is genuinely a nice person, and clearly has knowledge of the material, but her grading methods are likely the worst I've ever experienced. A lot of this class is advertised as "effort-based" or "yes/no" grading (at least according …Read more