the biggest complaint - UNORGANIZED! Class material (lecture & readings) jumps around and handouts aren't available until the last minute.

klenz is at UBC for research, she has no interest in teaching. complains about teaching a lot. very unapproachable, one-on-one.

her exams are super hard and and her materials r totally useless......choosing her is equal to prepare to fail the course

I took this in summer. She doesn't like her own questions. She doesn't give answers that are definite. And yet she expects you to study only her materials

I thought this was going to an easy A. Why? Because the midterms were so easy! But the problem is the final...This is the worst kind of course because there is really no way to study for it. Big mistake not taking Bio 12 in high school. I will regret it forever...

OMG, this course is just terrible. Just as the one down there said, reading is your problem, doing all useless clicker questions. She is no good, avoid, I had to take it because I have to, but, if you can avoid, avoid !

This professor is terrible. During the class, she doesn't talk about her notes, but doing useless clicker questions. The midterm is super hard. Many questions with a little time allowed. And she is very skeptical, I tried to look up at the roof just to take a breath, she thought I was looking at other people's paper. I was pissed. Avoide her!

Terrible teaching as a prof. Her concepts aren't hard, but she treats students like grade school kids. Very disorganized with lecture material and reading quizzes. Runs into tech difficulties almost every class. Spammed us w/ emails, then commented sarcastically when we reflected that we didn't appreciate being spammed. Very unprofessional.

Terrible prof. Her lectures are sleep-inducing and she's condescending to her students. If you leave in the middle of class for any reason, she will shame you in front of everyone based on the assumption that you only left because you forgot to bring a clicker. I didn't find the midterms to be too hard, but the marking scheme was kinda unfair...

A blow-off class. Horrible class notes. Boring lectures. Pointless in-class discussions. Overuse of iclickers, which were used for participation; students only went to lectures for the participation marks. Felt like a high school social studies course. 25% of grade was participation and group assignments. Exams solely based on class notes.

Awful professor. My high school teachers were better than her. I can't believe she is allowed to teach. The only thing I improved in this course were my mobile gaming high scores. Not hard to pass but horribly dreadful to have to attend. Also, don't buy the textbook. Completely useless.

Hands down the most self absorbed professor Ive ever had cant go a day without talking about herself

One of the absolute worst profs in UBC. She has no idea what she is talking about, her notes are confusing, and she is not reasonable at all. Avoid this prof at all cost. I had taken 3 courses with her and they were all awful. Especially avoid her BIOL 234 class. I think I had a better knowledge about the subject than her.

Her BIOL 234 was one of the worst classes I took in UBC. I wouldn't recommend this prod to anyone.

She's the worst. There is so much f*king work to do for this class, don't take it if you can cause its absolutely ridiculous. There is still a ton of my work that is unmarked and its the end of the term cause she gives sooooo many assignments for no reason. The midterm is also all written and she marked everyone so hard. Don't take her class.

Where do I even start. The course itself is awful, but the prof is also incredibly rude and condescending to students. She acts like doing her job is a favor to her students. The marking criteria is unclear, the assignment instructions make no sense half the time, and she marks as if you should be able to read her mind. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Nothing stands in your way of success more than Jennifer Klenz. She runs the entire course like a circus and half the time she rambles on about useless garbage for the entire 3 hours. She creates half-assed group projects and uses vague rubrics that she (and her clown TAs) grade to their pleasure. The university should reconsider her employment.

This class is Investigations in Life Science: Guided experimental investigations of biological questions, yet we learned very little about anything to do with lab methods/prerequisite material for higher level courses. Instead, we spent the whole term learning about corals. The final project was on corals. This class and prof was a joke.

Horrible course. Instructor has no idea what she is doing. Forces us to be in groups where members do not work and Jennifer does not have even a basic understanding of how to use canvas. She leaves grading until the last minute and is incredibly unhelpful.

I tagged this as inspirational because Jennifer is inspirationally horrible at teaching. I also tagged the course as hilarious. Hilariously atrocious.

As others have already said, this prof cant teach and is unapproachable. Her mannerisms towards students is unacceptable and I cant understand why she is an instructor.

Jennifer Ellen Klenz is absolutely the worst professor. She is super passive aggressive. She will respond to emails, with a pool of sarcasm, and does nothing, making it seem that we are blessed to have her. She will leave grading until the last day (and even after grades have been released) so you can't dispute. I wish her not on my worst enemy.

Jennifer klenz is unbelievably talented at turning what should be a 50 minute lecture into a 3 hour mind numbing conversation between her and the TAs. The purpose of this course is laughable because I truly did not learn one useful scientific concept. The number of irrelevant group projects is astounding and the teaching team lacks teaching skills.

Her marking on projects is very arbitrary, the last few days everything got regraded so everyone got 20 emails and the marks are all <50% on canvas so she can hide all the details of marking. There is so much homework, 5-7 hours/week for 2 credits! So much time wasted in class, repeating things Save yourself from the mountain of work and despair

Unreasonable expectations (expected us to explain what a coral is), bad teacher, gives inconsistent instructions... please please try to avoid her

She teaches like 5 or 6 of the same class and gives inconsistent information/instructions to each section. She will say something in one section and forget to tell another, but you get marks taken off for not knowing. She has done this to our group MANY TIMES. Horrible and unfair.

She is extremely condescending and not someone I feel comfortable learning from. I watched her constantly put down students, as well as TAs. She plays favorites as well as least favorites. If you arent her favorite, she will manually lower your grade. If you dont want to cry due to the comments made by this educator, DONT TAKE THIS CLASS!

One of the most condescending and most passive-aggressive people I have ever had to interact with.

She's awful. Very passive aggressive, never marks stuff on time so right before the end of the semester your grade drops so much when you thought you were doing good. Vague rubric and a tough grader. Also does not understand people have anxiety and forces them to speak up. Learned nothing from her. Worst class I've taken.

Professor Klenz comes off as very caring in the beginning but after multiple interactions she is extremely passive-aggressive and if were being honest, I learnt absolutely nothing from her lectures. She has very vague rubrics and then gets upset when everyone does terribly. If you can, I would recommend you register for a different prof.

BIOL 140 with Jennifer Klenz has been a colossal waste of time. Not only did we not learn anything to do with lab techniques, but the prof herself is incredibly unprofessional and rude in her interactions with students. In feedback for group assignments her comments are unacceptable.

Professor Klenz provides a rubric for every assignment but then when it comes to marking, marks will be taken off for things not listed on the rubric so it is very difficult to know what to actually include in assignments. Actually the worst class. If you get Jennifer as a prof, drop the course because it's impossible to please them to get marks.

I learned nothing from this course. They take forever to mark anything, and when they do finally mark, they don't follow the rubric, and you end up with feedback that doesn't make sense. Klenz would also come off as kind during the lectures but be super petty and rude in a one on one interaction.

Klenz is so rude. She comes off nice in lecture but then if you ask her anything during office hours she is rude. Her feedback is rude. She does not make learning feel comfortable, because her feedback makes you feel like s***. I would not take her simply because she is a mean person, but she also cannot teach and her marking makes no sense.

I found Dr. Klenz to be unapproachable outside of the class. She would not respond to any emails and she would sometimes laugh at students for asking questions. Also she did not provide clear guidelines for the course and her marking was very abstract with no feedback. I would not recommend taking a class with Dr. Klenz

She was the worst and by far the most unorganized professor I ever had! She Made a lot of mistakes! We had to repeat multiple experiments multiple times either because she screwed them up. In Assignments, she confused us by asking for thing that did not exist and after wasting our time for hours to days she just said sorry, I made a mistake!!

Ranted at us about things that were unrelated or whatever was bothering her. Very disorganized and messy, unclear grading criteria, wouldn't respond to emails or requests to meet and the kicker is she went thru our grades and manually deducted points from our assignments and final before submitting our grades so we were completely blindsided.

Been a couple years since I took this class, and having had a couple years with other professors, I can strongly say that Jennifer Klenz is the worst one I have had. Absolutely destroyed the final grade for my entire group, and emailing her asking for an explanation was absolutely futile. Genuinely don't want to be rude, this woman should not teach

Disorganized & makes mistakes when explaining concepts. Passive aggressive when students email/ask genuine questions or express concern about something in her office hours. It is very difficult to understand her expectations for exams and assignments as they change every lecture. On the plus, lectures are recorded and there are no iClicker points.

Lectures were confusing as she cannot explain things very well. She is disorganized. To succeed you just really have to do a lot of self teaching. But during the UMoveCrew movement breaks she really gets into the dance moves which is entertaining.

Just a terrible professor, please go back to your SFU, your teach style fits SFU but not here, please!

Review(1/3): Jennifer was very disorganized. She used a lab manual she wrote for the course, which included grading rubrics for each assignment. However, she would also post rubrics on Canvas—often close to the assignment due dates and without alerting students—that contained revisions or additional requirements that differed from the lab manual.

Review(2/3): She micromanaged your bench dynamics intrusively. Everyone is expected to demonstrate contribution to equal extra lab time in front of her. Lab was open 9-5, M-F, and Jennifer was only there in T-F PM. Students who came in when she wasn't there were viewed with suspicion, and their groupmates questioned about their contributions.

Review 3/3: She seemed to take her lab tech Mindy's words at face value, forming negative impressions of some groups based on hearsay. Even when those groups later explained their situation reasonably, her initial opinion persisted. It often felt like she forgot the group's clarification and remained biased.

2 quizzes every week, too much homework, and extra lab time. Disrespectful to students, overwhelmed, don't take this course.

This person is outrageous. The group assignments were pretty normal, but she had a strange "contract" requiring each team member to list their strengths and weaknesses, with the weaknesses having to be sufficiently "weak."

She can't even understand a presentation if it's not simple enough. She knows nothing about anything other than biology, and the grading is completely subjective, meaning she's grading something she has no idea about. It's hard to imagine this being the kind of behavior an instructor should exhibit. Please stay away, brothers and sisters.

She disrespects students and is self-righteous and immersed in her own world.

She required students' research to be supported by data or sources, but she graded it based on her own imagination rather than trying to understand the students' true meaning.