This professor sucks. He mumbles forever and you absolutely want to kill yourself because of the boredom. He wouldn't know if any students actually came to class or not. He doesn't take attendance. Do yoursel a favor and don't take this class from him. If your in it, drop immediately and take Julia Johnson.

This is such a horrible class. I put in minimal effort but constantly worried about this class. The lectures DO NOT pertain to the tests. The tests are impossible. The curve is absolutely necesssary because everyone fails. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

This class is the worst class I have ever taken. Being a business major, I have no interest in this topic and Dr. Burt makes me even less interested. LONG lectures of mumbles and pathetic jokes. DO NOT TAKE GLG101 WITH DR. BURT!

Large proportions of his GLG 101 lectures were youtube videos about geology which he explains aren't relevant to the exams. He was alright when he was explaining things himself, though.

3 exams. All difficult. Its curved so a 60 to 70 is a A but don't expect to score that high. Don't bother attending lecture unless you want extra points toward your exam. Other than that, Burt is a nice old man who makes too many rock puns but he isn't all the best professor. GET THE TEXTBOOK!!! You'll need it to even get a C on the exam.

For our first exam, he said he was "ashamed" of how difficult and horrible it was. His tests are made to trip you up and are the hardest I've ever taken! They're just evil. You're only graded on 3 exams, with an optional final that gets ADDED to your grade curve. That means each test is 33% of the grade, or 25% if you take the even harder final.

I highly recommend against taking this class unless you are really really good at memorizing facts and then correlating them with different time periods. His test contains a very large number of which of the following is false questions which are extremely hard. Usually his false questions only has a word or a number that's slightly changed.

Oh, were you writing down this long ass paragraph of notes from the slide? NEXT SLIDE TIME Then has the nerve to tell me i need to show up to class when i do bad on the first test, even though i went to every pointless class where i couldnt get half the notes down.

I thought that it being a 101 class, it wouldn't be this hard. He said on our first test that if he was taking this test he wouldn't pass, and doesn't expect anyone to pass and then our class average was a 60%. He doesn't teach at all, he finds YouTube videos and then says that they are incorrect. I would highly recommend not taking his class.

Donald Burt has taken my slight interest in Geology as a Business Major and completely murdered it. He reads directly off his power-point, and plays laggy YouTube videos which hardly pertain to material we are tested on. As a 101 course, the amount of information for each test you are expected to absorb is utterly absurd.

Just don't. Save yourself some time and sanity. Grades on only 3 exams, plus the optional final. Lectures are utterly useless and a complete waste of time. If you're bold enough to take him, read the end of chapter summaries a couple times a week before each test, do the extra credit, don't drop any tests, and the curve will carry you home.

Although I find geology extremely interesting as a subject, Professor Burt makes the subject unbelievably dry and boring. I learned little to nothing from his lectures and stopped showing up since he only grades exams, all of which are based on the end of chapter summaries in the text book. I learned more from the lab than I did from this class.

I showed up to the lecture a few times, but each time I did, half the class was asleep and the other half was doing homework for a different class. I'm in the class now and am genuinely concerned that I won't pass. DO THE EXTRA CREDIT!!! Most people are currently failing the class. If you have to take this class, take it with a different professor.

If you like being bored in class, then take him. Otherwise, please dont take his class. His tests are just memorization of the textbook, and the lectures are useless. You might as well teach yourself the material.

I took this class because I assumed it would be an easy A for my engineering load. HA, wrong. This class is actually very challenging. The lectures are just power points and the tests are 30 questions like, "which of the following is false". There is an abundance of knowledge to master. Do not take this class as a blowoff, it's simply not.

Please do not take this class. He gives 3 tests and an optional final, lectures are completely useless. He plays 6th grade youtube rap videos in his lectures, and he is an extremely hard grader. For the first exam, the average was a 62%. Please do not and I repeat Do Not take this class, If you do you will lose brain cells.

Worst professor I have ever had. Your final grade is made up of only 3 exams and he does not even teach his own material. He never thoroughly goes through material in lecture. We are expected to know six chapters of textbook material, end of chapter material (180+ questions), lecture material, and video material in a little over one month.

Please avoid Burt at all costs! Only grades 3 difficult tests and there are only which of the following is FALSE questions. Lectures are useless and unengaging. He does not want his students to succeed, given how ridiculously formatted the test is. Just hope that the curve and extra credit save you. DO NOT take this class unless you love rocks >:(

Not the best teacher, but it would be best if you did attend lectures because extra credit was occasionally awarded. Very test heavy, so you will not do well if you do not pay attention. When I first joined the class, he seemed very proud to announce that the average grades on his tests were 60% so take that as you will...

The lectures are not engaging and videos are shown that have nothing to do with geology. For lectures, an hour of videos are shown and then in the last 15 minutes, he powers through 50-80 slides on the chapter saying maybe a word or two about each. For this class, you HAVE to get the textbook because the lectures are no help with the exams.

This class is really hard, I would recommend choosing another teacher for this class. I bought the "required" textbook for this course and did not use it once! The only grades put in are your test grades which makes it hard to try and bring up your grade. Personally I did not like this class and do not recommend.

Very bad professor and does not teach the class, instead assigns random videos and discussions based on those.

Your ENTIRE grade is based on 3 midterm exams and an extra credit assignment here and there (worth bonus test points). DO NOT take his class! I am usually a decent test taker but have done awful on his tests so far. No good test prep, just tells us to read the textbook basically. This class if far too unreasonably difficult for being a 101 course.

Class was basically just based on the 3 exams, teacher offers extra credit for coming to class and critiques on videos. Shows animated videos about geology, last half of class is him just reading off a powerpoint almost teaching himself and not his students. Teacher does not care about excuses will not provide extensions T.A. sucked at responding.

Gives extra credit for attendance and video critues but fails to state that it is in fact not extra credit, for example we took three tests each 99 pts he added 10 pts extra credit the wrong way (made it out of 109 pts) without telling anyone. You have to go to class to earn the extra ten points if not its deducted in his spread sheet (no canvas)

He is a really nice, passionate guy but just a terrible teacher. His lectures are very boring and unengaging. The format of his tests are mainly "Which of the following are false" questions which really set you up for failure no matter how hard you study.

Man very uninteresting course which doesn't correlate with the lecture material from PowerPoints. Random discussions and videos don't really make sense. It's hard to know what to study so far for the test since there's numerous amount of things in the class rock of the day, videos, discussions, homework, and notes from presentations/lectures.

Very strange class and I heard his other classes are very strange with weird video lectures such as GLG101, GLG102, and GLG441. Weird!

Weird very weird!! But offered extra credit and graded the impossible test on a curve.

The entirety of your grade is 3 tests, and it feels like none of the material is covered in lectures or PowerPoint presentations. The first 2 tests were open note, the last one was closed note since he noticed too many people were getting high grades. Curves grades so most people do pass. I got a 66 (C), so do with that what you will.

Not good at all and this professor made geology itself very boring. Used to like geology, but not anymore.

Cannot even describe into words how boring yet difficult this class is. No study guides for exams, no engaging lessons, difficult professor who brags about test averages being 50-60; overall just awful. Professor is clearly passionate but does NOT know how to teach. Take someone else.

holy boring. i was actually really excited to take this class but this professor made me literally skip half the semster. nothing covered in the class is on the tests, its a weird mix of youtube videos and him sort of reading the textbook? idk really weird class and really hard tests. i read all the chapters and still only scored a 60.

Lectures aren't that useful, better off studying the textbook on your own for the 3 exams. If you're expecting easy exams with little work, its not going to fly. He does curve.

Do not take for GLG 304. He uses the class as his personal outlet to share his conspiracy theories about things like Pearl Harbor being staged and the Ukraine War being created by the US government. Has very little to do with minerals.

Burt is intelligent as a professor and nice as a person. But man, his lectures were bad. Just showing us tangentially related videos and then skimming over the textbook (which is free online, W). Don't even get me started on the exams. 90% of questions are "which one is false". Once you answer a question and go to the next, you can't go back.