Student Evaluations of Vogeler's Geography 188

Students have provided two kinds of evaluations:
1) a general one and 2) a specific one on the web pages used in this course.

General Evaluation
On the Department of Geography's Course and Teacher Evaluation Form, question #7 asks:
"Overall, considering your experience with other instructors, how would you rate this INSTRUCTOR?" The three semesters listed below illustrate how students in Geography 188 rated the instructor:

Key words used by students to describe the course:
abrasive, amazing, amusing, awesome, blunt, bold, boring, challenging, cynical, different, difficult, dogmatic, educational, encouraging, enlightening, entertaining, enthusiastic, exciting, flamboyant, fantastic, fascinating, frustrating, fun, funny, great, government-questioning, hard, hilarious, informative, inspiring, inspirational, interesting, intellectual, intimidating, intriguing, introspective, long, mind-inspiring, off-the-wall, opinionated, original, paradigm-shifting, pleasant, pointless, profound, provocative, rejuvenating, revealing, rich, sarcastic, self-improving, somewhat painful, stimulating, strange, stressful, tedious, thought-provoking, time consuming, tough, truth-telling, uncanny, unique, unreasonably hard, unusual, vague material, very educational, very interesting, witty, well-presented, well-taught

• This was one of the best classes I've ever had and I'm glad I took it during one of my hardest semesters.

• This course taught me so much and I thoroughly enjoyed it! You are one of the better professors I've had in a long time!

• All the slides shown helped to better understand the topics.

• I liked  how you pushed us to learn as much as we could. I think you are a great teacher.

• Good course -- taught a lot, real insight into "the way things are."

• I thought this was a great course because of the instructor's knowledge and his experiences.

• We covered many topics from perspectives that were never used before. The map exercises and exams are structured in such a way that the questions actually make us think and apply the concepts we've learned. The were difficult, but manageable. At times, Dr. Vogeler seemed to forget that this is a 100-level course and we're not geography majors.

• Good class.

• Good class ... more maps! Excellent slides -- they really add to understanding of material.

• Good. I learned about alot of things that are right in my neighborhood that I didn't notice before.

• I 'm very glad I took this course even though it really challenged me. I thought it would be a sluff course but you proved different.

• Explain the maps better! Don't go through notes so fast!

• Zelinski [textbook] was very difficult to understand. Talk about it in class.

• The maps really helped me understand how culture affects the landscape. The supplemental reading was useful also.

• Not a bad course at all. Everything was great, no improvements should be made.

• Excellent. I really enjoyed the class. It opened my mind and made me examine my own beliefs and perceptions more thoroughly. It was tough course, but I really feel that I got a lot out of it.

• A lot of work for a 100 level course. I liked the idea of incorporating Netscape [web] into the course.

• The instructor did a good job in lecture and I enjoyed the reinforcement with the Web pages. They helped a lot.

• The map assignments give "hands-on" experience--helps to understand.

• Interesting material, well-organized lectures, use of slides very helpful. I learned to look at many things in a totally new perspective.

• If I had a question I could email Vogeler and get an answer in a matter of hours.

• Teaching style is very honest, open-minded and with good sense of humor.

• Web pages are very good and helpful.

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 12 August 1996; last revised on 14 July 1999.