Guntram Herb

The class was overall fairly interesting. Herb does a great job of being a fair grader who makes class and labs worthwhile, but he'll also make you work for it. Try and get a good group of friends or acquaintances for the final project, it will make to final presentation easier to work on.

This was a pretty intense course and the labs meant I spent a few nights of the semester up super late working, but that was also my own doing. It’s interesting to have a class that has so many different topics because you don’t get to go as in-depth but it also doesn’t get boring. Guntram likes to teach a lot of theory and geographic vocabulary which some people find annoying but I do appreciate having the class rooted in a list of concepts. He can seem tough but is open to supporting you when you need it. I had to ask for lots of extensions, sometimes even the night before it was due, and he was very understanding. This class inspired me to declare geography in my very first semester, although I was only in the class because I wanted to do ES but couldn’t get into any classes.

This was a pretty intense course and the labs meant I spent a few nights of the semester up super late working, but that was also my own doing. It’s interesting to have a class that has so many different topics because you don’t get to go as in-depth but it also doesn’t get boring. Guntram likes to teach a lot of theory and geographi …Read more

This was by far the class I’ve learned the most from so far. Guntram’s lectures are so well organized and interesting. The class does have quite a few readings which aren’t super long but it was always very obvious who had or hadn’t done them. He would mix it up between lectures and circle discussions, so we didn’t always know if we needed to prepare. He assigned ArcGIS story map projects and they were a bit intimidating but our presentation dates were self assigned so we could plan around other midterms. Overall, he’s a very fair professor and it always open to giving accommodations when asked in advance.

This was by far the class I’ve learned the most from so far. Guntram’s lectures are so well organized and interesting. The class does have quite a few readings which aren’t super long but it was always very obvious who had or hadn’t done them. He would mix it up between lectures and circle discussions, so we didn’t always know if we …Read more