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Very unclear. I understand that for gen bio you have to test on certain things, but his teaching was very poor.

He provides absolutely no test prep materials, so knowing what to study is somewhat a mystery. The pop quizzes are extremely difficult and you only have 3 minutes to take them, one answer wrong and you're at a D. He jokes a lot about failing students, which would be funnier if it didn't actually seem like this was his goal. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS

Lectures are just reading off slides word for word. In class quizzes with 3 Qs worth 18 points, so getting a question wrong has a significant impact. Tests tend to have some very specific, nitpicky recall type questions. Spends a lot of time joking about drinking and failing his students, which would be funny if the lectures weren't terrible

He was an AWFUL professor who put far too much information on his powerpoint slides and his lectures made absolutely no sense. I would absolutely recommend finding another professor.

So bad. If you're good at bio and can pull info from the textbook, prepare to snore your way to an A. If not, good luck. Completely inept, boring, and muddled lectures. Understands biology but sadly incapable of explaining it to another person. Go for the pop quizzes, then pop in headphones and read the chapter. Take questions to the TAs.

If you dont need this class as a pre req, do NOT take it. Dean is a terrible professor and clearly only here for research. This class requires an insane amount of reading and taking notes on lectures but the weekly quizzes arent on anything in the book or his lectures, so good luck. The midterms are also extremely hard and his jokes get old fast

Do not take Professor Dean. He is very sarcastic and his humor gets very old very fast. The exams are very nit picky and super detailed and the study guide has little to no detailed information that helps. READ the textbook because I could not watch the lectures. Look over his slides because it can help with exams. One of the worst profs.

Dean is the worst. If you can avoid taking 1009 with him, dont. His lectures are incredibly unhelpful and vague, and half the time the info doesnt apply to the tests or quizzes. The textbook also sucks but reading it is a necessity to pass. Tests are horrible since the questions are mostly applied knowledge, so just memorizing wont be enough.

Dean is one of the worst profs i've had. I stopped going to lectures after the third week when I found out that going to them really won't help your grade at all. There are pretty much only three tests that will make up most of your grade, and they're all extremely hard and specific, so there's no good way to study for them. Avoid this class!!

His lectures are hard to follow. From what I can tell, a lot of my class finds them super unhelpful. He seems to take some pride in the fact that his class is at a C/D average? I understand that college is supposed to be hard but I feel like there should be more concern if there's a widespread lack of understanding. Uncomfortable jokes, avoid.

I do not recommend taking Biology with Dean. He seems to take pride in his students getting C/D and wants his students to fail. His lectures are boring and hard to follow and the test questions do not follow the lectures or the textbook. Additionally, he does not open the biweekly quizzes in order to get feedback. Avoid if possible.

I do not recommend this prof at all. Exams are lecture heavy, but lectures are extremely unorganized. Seems to take pride in giving students Cs or Ds, "jokes" about it quite often. I ignored the warnings on here when I signed up for this course, but now I understand why ratings are so low. Avoid!

AVOID!!! The lectures are extremely un-engaging and very unhelpful. First class average mid-term was a 57%... that should tell you enough. He definitely seems to take pride in having his classes be a C/D average and he jokes about it often. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND CHOOSE ANOTHER PROF. Just horrible.

I cannot say enough bad things about Dr. Dean. He thinks he's hilarious, which he is not, and his lectures are almost impossible to sit through. Almost everyone I talk to doesn't even bother going to the lectures as they are that uninformative. If there is any, ANY other professor available, please take them instead.

Dr. Dean was nothing special, just another professor who did not care. He also said the class average on a midterm was 68% and that was the best he ever had. He is very funny.

My comment keeps getting deleted, but I have time for Antony Dean. Again, I reported him to the EOAA, and they acted on his discrimination. If anyone is concerned he is discriminating, please report him,

Professor Dean thinks he's the funniest dude in the world, which couldn't be further from the truth. Lectures are bland, and the average score on each midterm has been

In the 4 years that I have been at the U, I have not had a professor as awful as Antony Dean. He is blatantly disrespectful to his students and genuinely finds joy in his student's failing. When a student asked if they should drop the class to meet graduation requirements, Dean quite literally laughed at them and said he hoped most people fail.

Has a fun accent and likes to make jokes. He presented a lot of the math involved with the genetics aspect of evolution in an awful way. I was in genetics when taking the class so had a better understanding from that. He is not very interactive with students. His method of teaching is very hard to follow and left a lot of students confused.

I am in my last year here at the U, and I have never had a professor as bad as Antony Dean. Currently, as I am typing this our average grade is around a C+ for an introductory Evolution course. Dean is disrespectful to the students; he cares very little about our grades or how we feel; and he does not communicate with the other professor.

Not going to lie, this was one of the most poorly taught classes I have ever been in. Antony Dean openly wished for us to fail exams and was an awful lecturer. Even for an evolution class, I was more confused walking out of that class then before. There was no clear grading rubric, no resources to help us succeed, and the grades were posted late.

AVOID THIS PROFESSOR AT ALL COSTS. He is disrespectful to the students, makes inappropriate sexual comments in class, and laughs at students' concerns and shortcomings in his class. This is the hardest class I've taken at the U because of the instructors. He refused to provide study materials to help students with exams or assignments.

Mr. Dean is the worst professor I've had in my four years of college. He had no care for students success and laughed when students were failing. His lecture slides were a train wreck and he's a horrible teacher. Professor Shaw taught with him and was the only reason I passed the class. Prioritize doing well in lab and on problem sets.

All the reviews are true, please, please do not take this professor. First of all, he is not going to help you learn your course material. Point blank his lecturing and all the materials he provide are terrible and don't apply to exams or assignments. Secondly and almost more importantly, he loves being extremely disrespectful and insensitive.

He was an absolute fever dream. How he is still working here is comedic.

Read directly off slides, obviously knowledgeable, but took pride in the high failure rate of his class. Told us to study for midterms with alcohol, and never responded to my email detailing my accommodations with the Disability Resource Center.