Student Evaluations of Vogeler's Geography 111

Key words used by students to describe Geography 111:
abstract, analytical, anti-USA, awakening, bad, beneficial, biased, boring, broadens, perspective, busy, busywork, challenging, close-minded, complex, complicated, condescending, confusing, confusing, critical, cultural, deep, decent, different, difficult, disastrous, diverse, dreaded, eccentric, edgy, educational, enduring, engaging, enjoyable, enlightening, entertaining, excellent, exciting, expansive, exploratory, eye-opening, fascinating, fresh, frustrating, fun, funny, hard, hateful, hilarious, holistic, ideological, incredible, in-depth, influential, inspiring, intellectual, intelligent, intense, interesting, international, intimidating, intriguing, irrelevant, liberal, long, lots of thinking, makes you think, mind-boggling, mind-freeing, mind-opening, mortified, multicultural, necessary, organized, paradigm-breaking, paradigm-shifting, personal, philosophical, radical, random, real, realistic, relative, relevant, scary, self-challenging, slow, stimulating, stressful, swift, tedious, thought-provoking, time-consuming, tough, truthful, unconventional, unique, unstimulating, valuable, vital, weird, well-taught, worthwhile

• I learned more in this one class than the rest of my college career combined!!!

• I enjoyed al the lectures, especially the projects.

• It was really challenging and mad you think about things in different ways.

• It was just horrible and did not stimulate anything.

• One of the best GEs that I have taken at UWEC.

• Good course -- it really challenged me to a new way of thinking.

• Class was very well taught and I learned alot about the Third World. The text was hard to understand at times. The two projects were fun.

• This was an excellent course, certainly, better than I had preconceived.

• The small group discussions were a waste of time. The time would be better spent in a question and answer periods.

• I thought this course was very challenging but good. Some of the topics took awhile for me to comprehend but after awhile I got a hold of them. I believe I. Vogeler is one of the better and more interesting professors I have had. His lectures keep your attention. Good wit.

• The course work was overwhelming at times for a 100 level course.

• In the beginning the course was very hard, due to the reading assignments, but as the class went on it got easier to understand.

• The slides were very good but I wish we would have had more of an outline. [developed these web pages in response]

• It was an in-between course because I didn't find it very interesting.

• Instructor is smart, provides good analysis of views. Good topics, textbook perspectives -- made you think.

• I was a bit apprehensive towards taking it, as I thought it would deal primarily with memorization of facts. I found that the concepts, important ones, were the focus -- this is good.

• The instructor did a good job. His methods at teaching were great and he involved everyone!

• This is the hardest course I have ever taken. It's challenging and rewarding. Sometimes, it'll even leave me rather upset with society.
  One of the best courses.

• Seldom that I find a teacher as dedicated to both teaching and learning.

• Tests could be shorter.

• Very interesting.

• The best part was when I left to puke.

• The course and the instructor challenged my thinking and views many times. The instructor's vast knowledge of the subject made the material interesting. He was very fair with grading. I would recommend this course.

• The lectures, slides, self-tests and small group discussions helped with learning. Tests were too long.

• I really enjoyed the Web pages; as a review for the exams.

• Readings were hard to understand. I learned more during the second part of the semester. Liked the projects. Liked the idea of picking your own grading system. Good idea with email. Liked self-tests. Long tests!