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Rating for Steven Daugherty
Animal Science Department at Cal Poly, SLO

ASCI 220
Junior
Grade Earned: A
Required (Major)
6:55 pm, Feb 11, 2011

Please notice prior to reading my review that I received an A in this class, as it may influence your opinion of what I have written. My thesis: Dr. Daugherty is a terrible teacher. This doesn't matter so much for his lectures, as he typically has overheads/printouts for almost everything that is important. It just involves a lot of memorization outside of class, which is very time consuming. You have to treat it as an upper-division course when you are calculating how much studying time is necessary, although it is lower-division. The lab is where his lack of affective teaching becomes truly problematic. Many students have to seek out other professors who know the subject matter to ask their questions, as this is the only way to get the majority of your questions answered. When you ask him to clarify a concept or procedure in lab, he explains the material in the exact same way as before. When you don't understand it still, he looks at you as if you are the most idiotic person he has ever met, and tells you to come to his office hour. It is obvious he is hoping you won't come to his office hour so that he won't have to deal with you. If you do go, you won't get your question answered any differently and he will make a remark about how you should get outside help, or that you should be studying more. He is an extremely rude person, who has no people skills in the slightest. By the end of almost every lab session, he made at least one person cry. This creates an inhospitable learning environment, so that you can't concentrate in class even when he is done attempting to teach. I achieved the grade of an A in this class in spite of him. I spent a bare minimum of four hours outside of class every day studying for this class alone. It was actually harder than any upper-division class that I have taken, and this includes organic chemistry. I recently heard a rumor that he is going to retire after the end of this year. If that is true, and you were maybe planning on taking him prior to that time, I would suggest you hold out for his predecessor. It is not just his students who dislike him, as numerous faculty members have also made their negative opinions known. Though, they have been much more politically correct than the majority of posts on this page. I have to say, I thought this class was going to be fun. It is extremely interesting subject matter and if there was an adequate professor teaching it, I know I would have truly enjoyed it. I hope you have a better experience than I had, though I know this is only probable if you get a different professor.

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