Jamie Henzy clearly doesn't understand genetics. She made a mistake on a punnett square and when other students pointed it out, she couldn't figure out what she did wrong. She also can't calculate expected double recombinants. Her explanations of stuff she does know usually don't make sense either. Worst professor I've encountered at Northeastern.

Her lecture is boring and unorganized. She will try to explain a concept with weird analogy that will confuse you even more. She makes things more difficult than it already is. Also, her test is very random. She is the worst professor I've had in NEU. I do not recommend taking her class.

Jamie Henzy is probably the worst Genetics professor in Northeastern. Don't take her if you don't have to. Your grade is purely based off of the midterms and the final.

Henzy makes everything seem really easy in lecture and then just goes way beyond the scope of it on the tests. Her lectures are all over the place, impossible to follow, and honestly just painful to sit through. Got better grades in much harder subjects basically just because I couldn't stand this class.

She might have sufficient knowledge about genetics, but her teaching style is extremely poor. She has a very difficult time conveying information in a clear manner and 10/10 times will just confuse you more - her lecture notes/ slides are chaotic and extremely unhelpful. Her exams are very poorly worded and made to deliberately confuse you.

Probably the worst professor I've had in NEU. If you skip her lectures, you won't get a good grade. She has a very poor teaching style, and you get graded only from the midterms and nothing else. The only good thing she does is she gives questions before the exam. But the questions on the actual exam are super tricky. Her lab structure also sucks.

One of the worst profs at NU. She is a poor lecturer - disorganized and unclear 95% of the time. Used many weird analogies that just confused you more. She rarely gave clear answers to Q's students had just overall was unhelpful. Learned mostly from the textbook. Don't take her if you don't have to. Her tests were deliberately confusing.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. Grade is based off of four tests including final, lowest midterm grade is dropped. Lectures are like alphabet soup, she includes awful, confusing analogies. Makes it sound easy, claims questions are based off of master list but isn't so exams are hard. Need a 92.75 for A, 89.75 for A-, etc. Tries to help but is ineffective.

She's a nice lady, but a very poor professor, as she doesn't explain concepts well, and her lectures are not well geared towards tests. Your grade in this class is based off of only exams, and the labs that she designs are very confusing and the directions for them often don't work.

Professor Henzy is not the best professor at Northeastern. She is not very good at teaching her students during class, and she expects you to watch lectures before the lectures so that she can quiz. I would avoid this class at all costs.

Taking this class online is worse experience, she expects you to understand material s beforehand and quiz on the powerpoint that she presents in class. If you have to take this course, I would advice to do practice exam she put out before exams.

yes, the class is easy and exams are very manageable. HOWEVER, considering is the first class you probably take to learn more in-depth about biology as a whole after foundations & inquiries, this is by far the worst introduction to concepts within genetics. biology classes after this DO GET BETTER, but don't have high hopes 4 this class.

Avoid this class, if you can. The tests are extraordinarily difficult and the material on them often blindsides you. The lecture topics feel so sporadic you'd think you were taking three different classes at once. This class also has a lab corequisite, which is very straightforward and well constructed.

the content of the labs aren't hard, but the INSTRUCTIONS... dear god, what???

Her ant fetish is sooooo inspirational!! As a biology major, she made me lose interest in my major and genetics. She is a sub par professor and doesn't teach well. I do not recommend taking this professor if you have the option not to. If you have a weird obsession with ants, take this class!

Lectures were all over the place and made studying for the exams difficult to organize. Weekly assignments (for completion) that are on material she hasn't taught yet. I would NOT recommend taking genetics with her but if you do make sure to be proactive about doing the Ant Hills concurrent with the lectures and not all before the exams.

avoid her. she made me actually hate genetics.

yikes

Henzy's lectures are super confusing and disorganized most of the time. I never understood how all the material fit together, and I feel ill prepared for the MCAT. Make sure to study the ant hill and practice quiz questions thoroughly if you want to do well on exams. It's nice that she drops the lowest test grade, but your grade is 90% exam still.

Professor Henzy is by far the worst professor I have had at Northeastern. Her lectures and notes are all over the place and hard to follow. Even if you watch all of her lectures and do her weird ant stuff, the exam is always much more difficult than the preparation. She has made me completely despise genetics and has ruined my GPA, thank u :(

I found this class excruciatingly painful. I used to love biology and genetics and her style of teaching made me not. Her power points have nothing of substance and her tests are hard. She doesn't give you any warning of what specific things we are need to know. She just expects you to memorize the entire chapters, 100-150 pages.

Her lectures are scatter-brained, jumping from chapter 1 to chapter 3 and back to 1, etc and at the end of the day the test is on ZERO material from her lectures. the material itself is pretty easy but her tests are so poorly worded you get questions due to poor wording. Help outside of class is deferred to poorly monitored discussion boards

yikes is all I can say. she never responds to emails, doesn't seem to care much about helping her students at all, and is kind of rude, to be honest.

Quite possibly the worst teacher I've ever had in my life. The textbook will be your best friend in this class. No lecture slides--she writes on a small whiteboard in a giant lecture hall. Very confusing/unorganized teaching methods. Good luck.

I am fascinated by genetics, but she has made me despise it. She over complicates every detail, to the point where it is extremely unnecessary. She uses analogies that do more bad than good. If you are misfortunate enough to take her class, I recommend reading the textbook before going to the lecture because she is all over the place. stay safe rip

Professor Henzy is extremely disorganized and overcomplicates every single topic. I used to like genetics but after this class, it's a hard pass. She posts worksheets with her own problems but refuses to upload an answer key for students to check. Good luck, you'll need it.

I am taking her class online and it is just too much going on. There are topics that just do not make sense and is not needed for her exams. You can definitely see her trying to improve her teaching style, but there are too many unorganized lectures that make you want to self-teach the topics. Overall, would not recommend.

BIOL2301 was the most horrific class I've ever taken. The online format is a disorganized mess and a complete joke. Co-taught by visiting assistant professor, and the two obviously did not communicate teaching methods. Material for future lessons would appear on current tests. Don't even try to email asking for help or with questions. Good luck.

You'll leave her lecture more confused than when you went in. She teaches different information to different sections yet puts everything on the exams so make friends between sections if you can! Her analogies are wholly unhelpful. The textbook is very dense but you will need to read it in order to understand anything that's going on.

Worst professor I have ever had. Lectures make no sense and are a waste of time. Her analogies make you leave class more confused than when you walked in. So much reading and most of it isn't tested (test material is super unclear). Absolutely terrible.

Very unclear and explains concepts poorly. This class made me depressed.

Honestly worst professor I've had, none of the lectures make any sense and she is all over the place. She's also weirdly obsessed with ants.

The class material wasn't super hard, but her lectures made it so confusing. She spent an entire lecture going over one topic right before the exam, and there wasn't a single question on the exam about it. Her lectures are disorganized and not in the same order as the textbook. If you email her with a question, she might answer with a question

The lectures make no sense, and everything is structured awfully. You could read the textbook and do everything she asks and still do horrible. Class is a waste of time, read the book. Won't even give answers to textbook problems unless you make one with other students and will confuse you when you ask a question because she won't answer it.

This woman destroyed my mental health. Go to class, take notes, do all assigned reading, study every night- you will still do bad on the exams. If you ask her a question she will only confuse you more. This class made me want to drop out of college. The material is not difficult, she just makes absolutely no sense.

Worst professor I have ever had. Lectures are VERY disorganized. Quizzes are impossible to study for because some topics we don't review in class, so reading the textbook is a must. What makes the class worse is she doesn't take accountability for the fact that it is her teaching style which is why half the class is failing the in person quizzes.

No lecture slides or online resources at all; not convinced she knows how to use a computer. Relies on students to upload their own notes of her lectures; will not provide review materials. Refuses to utilize technology; she draws by hand on the whiteboard and it's impossible to see. Very disorganized. Also refuses to acknowledge student feedback.

Prof Henzy is just not a good teacher. She has NO SLIDES and no structure to her lectures. You leave more confused and she cant even answer your questions. That being said, unlike other years we are graded on group projects, as well as the homeworks. They are definitely very time consuming but helpful to get your grades up.

Possibly the worst professor at Northeastern, avoid at all costs

Absolutely the worst professor at Northeastern. Terrible at explaining concepts and makes the simplest things confusing.

Absolutely terrible. The material could have been very interesting but was not taught well at all. Lectures were all over the place and she made the simplest topics insanely confusing. I strongly advise not taking her class.

the most bizzare class i've ever taken at this school. jamie is such a nutcase. her lectures are disorganized, she doesn't have powerpoints, and no matter how many times you do the homework problems, go to class, or read the textbook, the exams never seem to reflect the material. and don't bother emailing her because she will never respond.

Henry is my least favorite professor I've ever had. I worked so hard in this class and. still ended up with a C (even though I got a 4 on my AP bio in high school). She is incredibly disorganized during lecture and jumps around topics. She goes way too fast in class and exams are on stuff she barely touched on in lecture.

Its kind of sad that a professor can take a class I was so excited to learn about and make it absolutely dreadful. lectures are so completely disorganized that you are learning unrelated information everyday. does not use slides just writes random information that pops into her head on the chalk board and rambles on about it. avoid if possible!

*BEWARE* If you are reading this and are thinking about taking Henzy's class for ANYTHING, please, save yourself the pain and DO NOT. Also if you're reading these reviews and seeing the one or two 5 STAR REVIEWS and are thinking, okay, maybe people are being overly harsh, please THINK AGAIN. Those reviews were probably submitted by her mother.

Absolutely atrocious professor. Class is graded off few exams and quizzes. Group projects should help boost your grade, but not when instructions are unclear. Asking for further clarification leads to dismissal. No rubric for projects and must attend office hours to look. Is also condescending towards students during lectures.

This professor is very knowledgeable when it comes to science but cannot teach. She teaches as if everyone is already an expert on the topics discussed and has learned it from other classes and our own research alone forgetting we're students still learning the material and can be very hostile when you ask questions, she doesn't care & won't help.

The class is based on 3 exams and a final and the lowest exam before the final will get dropped. I would suggest reading the textbooks, using any extra practice that she posts, and making sure that you understand the answers to the questions that are posted at the end of the slide. For everyone saying she isn't that bad, she is that bad.

W'ed this class b/c my grades did not suffice to get anywhere above a B. I lost so much motivation from the prospect of having to retake this course, but glad to say I ended it with an A now. Her lectures were very disorganized/lackluster, did lectures even on exam days, and coming to class was a drag. I would TRULY never recommend her to anyone!!!

Mrs. Henzy is disorganized and confusing as a professor, and she is disrespectful as a person. I've never heard a professor speak with such self-importance and arrogance to a student before- not even ones actually successful enough to warrant an ego. Good luck to anyone who has the displeasure of interacting with her.

Do not take her. My GPA took such a hit. She drops your lowest exam, but I had a medical emergency last minute and she did not let me retake as it counted as my dropped. I had already done horribly on the first exam and I should've just W'd the class. Anyone else for genetics is better than Henzy.

Save yourself. Take any professor but her.

Literally a horrible teacher. DO NOT take her. Do absolutely everything you can not to have her. Doesn't teach you anything then expects you to know it all. You won't learn a thing with her. She needs to be evaluated by Northeastern.

Arrogant! Disrespectful! Terrible at outlining explanations and offering direct instruction. TA would give assistance on assignments that later turned out to be wrong, sacrificing my grades and giving zero opportunity to cushion it. I'm finishing the course with a 92.9, and she virtually scolded me for asking for advice to end with an A +0.1 pt.

i have no idea how this woman is even still allowed to teach. do anything and everything in your power to not take her class. tutors/tas weren't able to help bc no one ever knew what she was talking about. went on random tangents and would shame students when she made mistakes. she needs her tenure taken away or smth