Sure he's entertaining in class, but you have no idea what he's talking about!! This guy is a terrible prof who should just stick to research.

Avoid anything he teaches at all costs!

interesting material, but very demanding class. only can attend class to get notes, and the midterm and final were BRUTAL. after talking to him after i failed and brought my WHOLE average down, he said that almost half the class failed, like thats supposed to make me feel better. Put alot of time and effort in to pass or do well.

appears to teach a neural physiology class instead of sticking to the curriculum of Animal Physiology. Constantly goes off topic discussing his own research and papers he has written. Just teach us what we do experiments on in the labs and it'd be a half decent class.

Animal physiology should be renamed, "musings of an arrogant, long lost twin of Bill Gates who's bitter because he never created Microsoft". If he could be summed up in a sentence, it would be, "Just because you know it, doens't mean you can teach it." He's smart, but his unplanned spastic lectures and arrogance enrage me for having to pay for it.

Abandon hope all ye who enter this guy's class. Says he likes to "weed out", but was forced to take a remedial teaching course during Fall term, and had a monitor (Teaching and Learning Centre)in class after a midterm class avg about 38%. May have the distinction of personally emptying the Biology Dept. of students.He discourages a love of Science.

Do NOT, repeat,do NOT enter a class with this useless twit!! As mentioned above, failed the class on the MT, and did no better to try and compensate on the final. There is NO WAY a 4th year biology major, should be failing animal phys in lecture, yet scoring 93 in the lab section. Tests incomprehensible, time limiting, and unfair. AVIOD AT ALL COST

He may be brilliant, but he can not teach. He was beter in 409 than 365, but still disorganized and rude. He made it very clear that he had better places to be, and more interesting things to be doing than teaching undergraduates. He is an angry, arrogant maniac. Avoid at all costs!

Straight up, avoid this class. He is a bad teacher, rude to students and exceptionally hard on exams. Classes are very dry and he's murmuring haphazardly most of the time with occasional tasteless jokes.

Avoid any contact with him! He is a terrible person. No social skills and bad reputation at the university. Disorganized and thinks that the students are stupid.

This is one class you do not want to take at all. I made the mistake to take it, now you don't have to.

Incredibly rude to the students, and stands up there mumbling and drawing unclear pictures on the board. Teaches the material using language and examples that would only make sense if you already KNEW the material.

Bad teacher. Not a nice person to interact with

He is one of the worst profs at UVic. Very rude and offensive. Does not care about this class, you or anyone. Only take this if you have to. Do not miss class despite the constant belittling. Expect to put a lot of work in, especially if you are not a top student.

Toughest biology class ever! Dont take this class if you are not required to. He is rude and arrogant and his exams are ridiculously difficult.

Whoever think Kerry is a good prof needs to get their head checked. He is by far the worst professor I've ever encountered in Uni. Avoid this class at all costs.

Delaney makes me mad. His lectures are rushed and he skips material because he has run out of time. His slides are chaotic and hard to go back and study from. He is rude, he talks over students who try to ask questions, and is very impatient. He refuses to clarify or re-explain concepts when students ask. Avoid him.

Kerry is the most scatter-brained professor I have ever had, his slides are a mess and his lectures are chaotic. You are graded all on tests and the lab portion. Overall would avoid him if you can.

This class was co-taught and I dreaded whenever they switched back to Delaney... Notes are scattered and impossible to follow... Speaks with scattered thoughts which makes it difficult to learn new and foreign material. Exam questions are very difficult. One of my worst experiences with a UVIC prof.

Dr. Delaneys lectures were REALLY bad. They were super rushed and his tests required a far higher level of understanding of the material than what he would teach. He was always really rude to students who asked questions and after talking to other students, I realized I wasnt the only one who was afraid to ask questions in this class.

please, whatever you do, avoid Kerry Delaney at all costs. Dr. Delaney was unprepared for class often, and was impatient with students. In my four years of taking biology courses at the university of Victoria, I have never felt so disappointed in a professor. I was very excited about this course, but was appalled the way it was taught.

Truthfully I don't think this class could have been instructed worse. I felt panicked during every lecture as they were so disorganized and delivered so incoherently. Then if a student asked a question Delaney would snap at them. Exams were extremely difficult. As an A student this class was a big hit on my GPA. Avoid if you can, if not good luck

It is very unfortunate, because I was really excited to take this course, but Delaney made it a dreadful experience. Unprofessional and lazy "teaching". He was very disorganized and presented info in a way that was impossible to follow. Rude to students. As an "A" student I was very disheartened with the results of this class. Beyond disappointing.

I can never understand the point of what he is trying to say, he just starts talking without the conclusion of what he's saying being clear at all. The assigned readings don't cover all lecture topic so you can't even rely on the textbook. On top of that, the exams are really hard, which is a terrible combo with a prof who can't teach

taking this class right now.... the class is in the mornings, my first of the day.... I don't wear my seatbelt when I'm driving to this class in hopes that i won't make it

I am convinced this man wrote his own good reviews. Even when you read them they are all similar and sound like someone trying to describe themself XD. On a real note, this is probably the worst class iv taken. The material is interesting but its impossible to learn from this man. I dread the lectures he is teaching. The other prof is great

Kerry knows very well that just about everyone taking this third year class are here because its a requirement for their program, and yet, he seems to have an expectation that many students will drop it and he constantly brings up the course drop date. Its almost like he takes pride in making upper-year students switch / drop out of their program.

Im very confident when I say this… All the good reviews were written by Kerry himself. They are the only reason his overall rating is not a 1

Delaney teaches a small section, 3 lectures. He is clearly knowledgeable, but not in how to teach a 1st yr class. He complained that the textbook was too general, and told us that we needed to study what he said in lecture because he would contradict the textbook. I had to miss his lectures due to COVID, and found it very difficult to catch up.

he definitely knows his stuff, but for a 1st year INTRO bio course he went way more in depth than he probably needed to. his lectures were disjointed, jumping back and forth between topics, and not well planned. when students asked questions he seemed annoyed more than anything, and was unapproachable (but that could have just been me)

He is so passive aggressive, it's hard to even imagine. This is the only professor who I do not like to ask questions from because he can't answer them without adding some sort of personal insult. You would expect that someone so incomprehensible would be used to repeating himself but ask him to do so and he acts like its the biggest inconvenience

This the worst class ever. Dr. Delaney has no respect for anyone but himself. He is rude to students when they ask questions and is extremely unapproachable. His lecture slides are scattered and his exams are very difficult. There is only a quiz, midterm, and a 60% final which makes it impossible to improve your grade.

Lectures were disorganized, and 2/3 were recorded with no microphone. Slides were messy and not representative of requisite knowledge. Material density was not consistent with other lecturers in BIOL 186.

Kerry is knowledgeable, sure, but should avoid teaching. He was a disorganized lecturer. Doing well was dependant on memorization more than understanding. Would rather switch my major than take another course with him.

Lecture is really disorganised and hard to follow

Kerry's section of bio186 was very disappointing. His lectures were very disorganized and he was super rude to students when questions were asked. He tried to cover way more than he should have for an intro bio class and he almost seemed to want students to do poorly. I think his section could have been very engaging if he actually wanted to teach.

This prof was completely ill-suited to a first year intro biology class, it's fairly clear he doesn't want to be there. His material was incredibly heavy, very disproportionate to the rest of the course. His lectures are very disjointed and hard to follow, and VERY hard to catch up on if you miss a class.

This class could have been sooooo much better if it was 3, 50 minute lectures a week and instead of a midterm and a final, there were 4 non-cumulative midterms. That is the ONLY way I can possibly see this amount of important material being manageable for students. But even then, they'd struggle since they have to teach everything to themselves...

This is the worst class I have ever taken. Dr. Delaney's lectures are confusing, dense, and filled with way too much information. He is also condescending, rude, and inaccessible by email. He grades entirely based on tests, which are incomprehensible and obscure. They also are clearly thrown together last minute, as our 60% final had 3 mistakes

I found the course concepts and general content very interesting but the way we were graded did not reflect that at all. Dr.Delaney jokes about being able to teach this class hungover and is very condescending to students. Has no empathy whatsoever. His slides are often very disorganized and he seems to writes the midterm/final the night before.

Disorganized lectures and the material that he taught did not follow the textbook and was far too advanced for the level he was teaching. He is extremely smart, but probably not meant to teach first years.

Kerry's slides were disorganized, long-winded, and confusing. It was extremely unclear what we actually needed to know for the course, and what he just wanted to tell us. The exam questions he wrote were also confusing and unclear. He was also very rude condescending towards those answering his questions in class. Avoid if you can.

I don't even have to explain. Terrible prof, rude, hates his students. Good luck taking a course from him.

His explanations of concepts and processes become increasingly confusing because he often glosses over important material that recurs, making his lectures very difficult to learn from.

By far the worst professor I have ever encountered in post secondary. Extremely rude and condescending to his students, and it's extremely unclear what you are expected to know for the exams. BUT 367 is not impossible to pass - make sure to pay attention in class and type out EVERYTHING he says, ESPECIALLY when there is a slide without text on it.

Kerry is rude, hard to deal with, and loves to not tell you what is expected for the midterm or final. He is condescending to anyone who asks a question he feels he has already answered, and he will makes fun of the question/person in front of the entire class. Awful prof, wish I didn't have to take his class.

First quiz, focused on action potential calculations, worth 15%, supposed to "give you an idea what is going to be on the midterm" Midterm, random madlib format based on whatever he thought of the night before to make it as painful as possible for "this generation". Avoid at all costs

Awful and rude. Cant articulate the science

Kerry started the class by stating that half of the class will fail, so hopefully you did not take the course in your final semester. Found many mistakes in his grading, he encouraged review of his grading yet when approached he was not very happy. Very rude to students unnecessarily.

Traumatizing. Literally so bad. Don't take unless u have to and if u do good luck and don't ask questions or go on your phone - you WILL be laughed at or called out. The first quiz isn't terrible.

This content is difficult and Delaney makes it much worse. His lectures are disorganized and very difficult to follow; he throws disorganized thoughts at you. Here is how I passed... make sure you don't procrastinate. Learn the main ideas by going through the textbook and PowerPoint figures. Then add the details! You got this!

Kerry Delaney is very rude to students and is an awful prof. He does not teach well and will laugh at you in front of the whole class when you do not understand the concept. He is obviously smart and understands the concepts he is teaching, but he does not teach the concepts well.

Didn't feel like a supportive learning environment because it was hard to ask Dr. Delaney questions without him getting frustrated with you for not understanding, or calling you out in front of other students. I took it as an elective because I was interested but it was a stressful course layout and teaching style so I decided it wasn't worth it.

Worst professor I have ever had at UVIC. I usually like to find the pros and cons of a professor but for Delaney I cannot think of a single positive thing. Avoid at all costs. I was completely lost during lectures and sometimes I think he was too. Spent half the class making weird noises cause he would forget what he was talking about. AVOID!!!!!!!

the absolute WORST educator i have come across. avoid at literally all costs please i'm trying to save you. too many reasons to list.

Never in my 4 years at UVic have I ever had a professor answer a phone call and TALK on the phone IN a final exam room. For a long time sh that. Not only is it reflective of how unprofessional his teaching style is in lectures, it's absolutely disrespectful to students who are trying to focus and complete an exam for a class they've paid for.

What can I say that hasn't already been said. Insanely hard final.

This has been by far the worst class I've had to take for my degree, and the most discouraging/unprofessional professor I've encountered. All of the previous reviews are accurate, so please be aware of what you're getting into with this course. Good luck to those whom this course is mandatory, and please avoid taking this as an elective.