Dr. Weaver is a terrible teacher. His tests are very hard and have very little to do with what we learn in class. He goes out of his way to be unhelpful and takes pleasure in giving bad grades to people. Hard to get a hold of, and will repeatedly ignore students' emails about important topics. Overall, worst teacher I have ever taken.

Weaver is a terrible teacher for Ig Met. He delights in watching his students do poorly. He is almost impossible to get a hold of and the class requires that you go on a week long field trip during spring break. The tests are very hard and not related to the notes. Worst of all he has a British accent and the book is basically worthless.

The tests are extremely hard you have to know every detail about every volcano and earthquake that he has ever talked about for tests if you don't you will not pass. If you go into ask for help he will talk to you like your beneath him and will not help you whatsoever. The study guides are long and don't have everything on them.

Brings his personal and religious beliefs to class. No clear direction on what to study, bad at replying to email's. Grading system is complex and unclear. Hardest class I've taken and im an engineer with chinese being my second language. Dont take his class.

I beg of you not to take this class unless you are super interested in every tiny aspect of volcanoes and earthquakes. I just dropped the class due to the extreme amount of time expected of you. It's only a 3 credit course, but you're expected to do a lot more work than that. There is not a book, just his confusing and wordy notes.

I did the spring intercession class. The amount of extra credit is nice, but his tests are crazy hard. He gives you the notes you need, but they're really hard and boring to read (5+ articles/6 days a week plus hour long videos you have to quiz over). He's also really bad at emailing back and has not updated his course in 4+ years.

This dude makes you read more than you could imagine. Sure there's a bunch of extra credit opportunities but its pretty much impossible to get full credit for them. Bonus quizzes are very difficult and you better prepare to spend most of your week studying in advance for his tests. Do not take his course at all costs.

This may be the worst class I've taken at OU. Terrible professor. This is a 1000 level course and the amount of material you have to know makes it seem like a 4000 level course. NOBODY TAKE HIS CLASS. You will learn nothing. Terrible teacher and shouldnt be at this University.

I thought this Gen Ed course would be easy. It was not only the hardest Gen Ed course I have ever taken, but it was also one of the hardest courses I've taken at OU. The Tests are ridiculously hard and just getting a B on one feels like you aced it. There are much easier Geology courses to take other than this one. STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE!!!

I initially took the class thinking it would be another standard intersession course and to my chagrin, I embarked on the literal most difficult college course that I have taken thus far. He compiles endless amounts of disorganized pages of painfully specific information. It truly feels like torture to study for the exams. NEVER TAKE THIS CLASS!

Barry weaver is the worst teacher at OU. I would recommend changing your major to avoid this course before taking it with him. He seems to take pride in having a class average of %30 and saying his student are pathetic. Save yourself. Dont take anything with Barry weaver.

Avoid at all costs, and beware of good reviews for lower-level classes. He treats his students as enemies and will work against you - rare office hours, no providing resources, insulting classes, diabolical (non)curves. He reflects poorly not only on himself but on the entire department because of how little support they've shown their students.

Barry is by far the worst professor I've ever had. If you are a geology student you can avoid him and he makes it his life mission to make you regret every life decision you have made to end up in his class as a geology major at OU. He delights in your failures. Avoid him at all costs if possible.

Horrible professor is an understatement. When 3/4 of the class fails, he blames everyone but himself. Insults students if they ask questions. Lab is difficult and he expects you to already know everything. If you like stress, anxiety, being insulted, and poor grades Barry Weaver is your professor. Don't take him regardless of the class.

Do not take this class. Worst class I've ever taken. I was more stressed about doing well in this class then my actual major classes. It seems like it would be an easy class because there is no graded assignments there is only 4 test then bonus assignments, but it is not. Test are extremely hard, didn't learn anything. Not as easy as it sounds!

This class is 65% Exams but 30% is a final term paper that Barry gives no information for and is around 35 pages long. It is due Friday of dead week (That's when the lab final for the class is as well!). If you like getting physically sick with stress from a class, I would recommend IgMet with Weaver. Mediocre professor for how harsh grades are.

He regularly fails around half class and several students withdrawal/drop every year. This year he decided mid-semester to release a grading scale where he didn't give anyone an A but failed over half the class. This class is a GPA crusher! You may want to raise your GPA with other classes when you take it. #RIP

Barry is a simple man. You are graded by very few things and he gives almost no information on how to do well on those things. Beware of the tests, as they are very challenging. You must go to class and MUST do well on term paper to pass this course. He offers little to no bonus for 3223 usually, so beware of this when studying for the class. 0/10

This guy makes the hardest tests known to man. He mentions tiny details in his lectures and will make entire sections over these seemingly minute details. He gives plenty of extra credit, but for some reason, only allows it to affect up to 10% of your grade, so up to a certain point it's useless. Almost everyone fails the tests, so good luck :)

Worst class I've ever had. 90% of your grade comes from the exams and only 10% from the assignments. With Weavers exams the questions are of the most minute details and are long-winded, so you barely have enough time to read the question , you have to have an eidetic memory just to pass the exam and you would be happy just to get a C on an exam!

One of the worst learning experiences I have ever had. Material that appears on the exams are sometimes never taught, and his lectures are just info dumps, nothing beyond trying to actually LEARN THE MATERIAL. Avoid this professor like the plague. Our test average was a 44% in case you need the proof.

He is the worst professor that I've ever had. The test reviews are nothing like the test and don't help at all. The only things that counts for a grade are those exams and everything else is extra credit. Even if you do all of the extra credit, your grade can only go up 10%. Our class average for one exam was a 44%, they are ridiculously hard.

Barry is by far the worst professor I have ever had, yes I did poorly in the class but he has 0 leeway for grades and homework assignments. And his test are hard to study for if you try using his trash websites study guides. If you get sick or for some reason miss assignment or class I recommend just dropping. His extra credit barley does anything.

Just unenroll if you are in this class in the future. Waste of time, learn absolutely nothing and homework is a joke (it also only effects 10% of your overall grade). Exams are impossible to get perfect score from his random questions that he never went over to opinion based questions. Its just a GPA killer with a professor that doesnt care.

exams are 100% of your grade in this class and the class median for each exam was between 40% and 50%. This means that easily over half of the class completely fails the course. do not take this course if you care about school.

I am not exaggerating when I say this is the worst professor at OU. Makes his tests extremely hard and sends out emails every semester shaming studentgs when everyone not surprisingly fails his exams. He has to curve the tests so much to keep his job. Extremely opinionated and rants about evolution in GEOLOGY. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS

Weaver has been the least caring professor that I've taken so far at OU. The only grades In-class are the exams and "extra credit". The extra credit is basically inaccessible with every assignment having absolutely no direction of what is expected. This with below-average test scores goes to show how little effort is put into educating this class.

Tests are 100% of the grade and the extra credit essentially becomes mandatory. This class is a 1000 level course though it is not treated like one. Students get stuck in this class as freshman and get their gpa crushed early on so do whatever you can to get out before you're stuck. Getting a good grade in this class just isn't worth your time.

Barry would most likely be a good person outside of a course. But if you are taking a course with him, either drop it now or be ready to not meet your expectations. The course is 100% based on exam grades, which you are proctored, and can't have notes. If you want to do good, do all the bonuses, but still, then, expect a low grade. Drop It.

Extremely test heavy. Offers lots of extra credit assignments but they don't do much. Would avoid taking this class if you can.

If you're anything like me your advisor recommended this class and you didn't check RMP until it was already too late. There are a million reasons listed in other reviews on why you shouldn't take Weaver's classes but Do every piece of extra credit available, study the practice tests hard, hope for a good curve, and bet on the final it's easier

You could do everything the rubric says to the best of your ability, get the assignment proofread by someone, and still receive a C on it. Not even a high C, a low to middle C. I had to argue with him about my grades on assignments multiple times and he wouldn't change my grades for NO reason at all. A very unfair professor. Not understanding.

drunk on power. not nice. material makes no sense. if you don't know anything about geology before going into this class, don't bother.

Content and required criteria for his assignments are very different from the criteria that he actually grades them on. When asking for clarification, is unwilling and passive aggressive. He adds notes in our text kind of forcing his political and personal opinions that are completely unrelated to the course, which makes me slightly uncomfortable.