Not a good class/lab. No teaching at all from professor. Work load +++, very tough on exams and goes outside what was covered in labs. Very limited help whe you go for office hours. Grading is vary hard because he wants his grade (mean) to be at a certain level with less than 5% of students above 90%.

Very hard class, not very helpful during office hours, difficult to understand during lectures, goes through too much material too fast all the time

worst prof i have ever had. not approchable at all

Worst lab and worst professor I've had in my 3 years at UOttawa. Everyone around me and I have been getting 5/10 on the assignments. Extremely difficult when it shouldn't be.

Very difficult lab.

Some say, his first words were "bell curve".

You're given a task--teach hundreds of incredibly smart & motivated students paying thousands to hear you talk. And yet, he has designed this course for purely memorizing hundreds of unimportant substrates/enzymes/products--5% of which you'll never need to remember in the workplace.

awful prof, hard to understand, course designed purely off of memorization, hard to figure out what should be memorized and what shouldn't, HORRIBLE prof

The lab manual is filled with spelling errors and mistakes. He hasn't changed it in years and still sends out emails last minute to correct what it says. Doesn't post grades till the day before exams. Assignment questions are vague and you and up losing points for stuff not specified in the manual. Leaves midway through his office hours.

Rude, unapproachable, and condescending. Not caring when you go to office hours. Brushes away your concerns, and takes forever when explaining basic things.

If the course is not mandatory, avoid it.

Not very nice in his office hours. I always feel like he is rushing me and dont want to help. I was even more confused when I left his office and I really think what my TA told me was more accurate

Does not post marks until the very end, which means you have no idea how you are doing in the class. Marks are kept secretive until the exam, and it's not good that the mark you see gives you a heart attack before the exam.

DO NOT take this course unless youre forced to. The most homework-heavy course Ive ever taken. Practical exam was really hard, not looking forward to the final at all. TA doesnt know what hes doing, labs are always delayed, it was a nightmare. 6 hours a week and I only get 1 course worth of credits. Avoid this class at all costs!

THIS COURSE IS TIME CONSUMING!!!!! weekly 6 hour labs, weekly assignments, weekly pre-lab, in-lab presentations, a practical exam, weekly draft reports, a formal lab, and a final exam all for 3 credits only. Poitras is the most degrading prof I've ever met, uses more energy to find ways to dock marks and is never helpful in his office hours.

don't take this class unless you have to also note that it's also given by another prof in winter. The class was too time consuming 6 weekly hour labs Weekly homework and prelabs 5 reports In-lab presentation every other week Midterm+final. Luc is not nice, doesn't answer emails, rude during office hours doesn't take enough time to explain stuff.

So time consuming. Multiple lab reports, big final paper, prelabs, presentations, assignments, and lab prep. You need to know how to manage your time for this class. Manual is long and tedious but it's helpful for studying. Final exam was brutal, heard he curves tho. Final has specific tiny details taken from background sections of manual. Awful.

This was by far the most demanding and tiring class I have ever taken. Do not take this lab as a science elective. If you have to take it with your program make sure it's a light semester for you.

Without doubt one of the worst profs i have had during my undergraduate program. He blames the problems on course and claims metabolism is hard. He basically reads off the slides, does not explain anything so going to lectures does not make any differences. The exams are not hard necessarily but the grading is abysmal

Lab portion is online due to covid. He is very condescending via e-mail. Rude and not helpful to students who are trying to navigate labs online...

Cest ridicule de sa part dinterrompre de cette façon toute activité de son cours et par le fait même de fuir tout questionnement des étudiants en leur disant de ne pas lui écrire. Il nous a annoncé la grève le 18 octobre, en après midi , au lieu du 16 oit nous laisser le temps de le contacter et a suspendu les activités le 19 .

Je suis d'accord avec le commentaire précèdant, comment peut-il abandonner de la sorte ses étudiants alors que plein d'autres profs sont toujours dévoués à l'éducation. Et ce, en pleine pandémie. Il ignore que pour certains ce cours est un prérequis pour l'obtention du diplome et se donne une seule fois par annéee. Il se fout des étudiant . Égoist

He's the worst prof I've encountered in all of uni. He claims things are "easy" so doesn't explain them. Gives the absolute worst instructions and everything is so unnecessarily confusing. The assignments and reports are time consuming and unclear. He's incredibly rude and demeaning. If optional, don't take him. I'm an A+ student and not doing well

If I could give him 0/5 I would. He is the worst prof I've ever had at uOttawa. He is so disrespectful, arrogant and unorganized (lab manuals were outdated which confused many students). A strike ended up happening during the semester(which was not his fault) but how he took care of things after was clearly a problem. Avoid if you can at all cost.

If I had a cent for everytime he said "Have a good day" in his emails, I would be a millionaire.

If you have a choice, which I really hope you do, please avoid him. He is very rude towards students when they ask for help via email and he avoids answering questions, instead wants you to search on your own. Even though there was professors' union strike which unfairly impacted students, he was not considerate at all about midterms and exams.

I should't took him as a teacher. He is rude, he made his final difficult, very long especially towards the end. When you go to his office hours or chat via email, he is rude , he doesn't like to change marks if there is a mistake during correction... it was a very big mistake to be in his class. the material was okay but he is very strict

Such an unprofessional professor. He is very rude to his students. Unhelpful during office hours. Refuses to regrade assignments when points were taken off unfairly. Instead, he insists that he is busy dedicating his time to answer students questions. I am still waiting for a reply for an email sent out 1 week ago. Doesnt care about his students.

Avoid Luc at all costs. Worst prof in my undergrad. Lab was cool but not him. Very passive aggressive and rude toward students. No email etiquette even though he preaches it. Lots of tedious assignments and reports. Never went to his lectures but I was better off. Exam was theory + app. Jai absolument aucune idée de comment il a obtenu ce poste !

Very rude and very unclear of what is expected in the course. His lectures are unappealing and all over the place. He seems to not care about his students, the class itself is not bad however I'd appreciate a more understanding professor.

Avoid taking this course if you can. So many things to worry about (assignments, draft reports, performance, etc.) it gets exhausting real fast. Luc was condescending, passive aggressive toward lots of students including me with his emails and announcements. There were many times I was fed up with his attitude and how he deals with things. AVOID!!

Éviter à tout prix. Prof très méchant et mal intentionné. Fait son cours de révision mais ne rend pas la présentation de celle-ci disponible . Refuse de reccoriger les évaluations s'il y a des erreurs. N'averti pas d'avance que seulement une portion du final est corrigée automatiquement pour stresser les gens. Bref, aime voir les gens échouer

Im so sorry but he is the worst professor I have ever met in my life. He does not care about his students, he makes everything harder than it needs to be and with everything being online now he became worse. His courses have no direction because he does not give learning objectives or practice problems, nothing no help whatsoever.

After 4 years, Luc is easily the worst prof I've had. So rude in emails and takes WEEKS to respond if you're lucky. Makes exams way too long, speeds through 70 slide lectures and spends 10 minutes wasting class time talking about nonsense but blames his students asking questions as the reason to why he's so behind. His midterm average was below 50%

Like a lot of my student colleagues mentioned, there is no email etiquette, no learning objectives, and vague exams. The material is not difficult, but with no learning objectives, you're left trying to figure out what he may or not ask as there is a lot of information. I find reading the intros in the textbook helped. All in all, good luck.

I am an A+ student so the prof's don't really affect me but he is the worst professor I've ever had. Never responds to emails (I had a question asked 3 days before the exam he never responded and asked the SAME question in the exam). Seems like he wants students to get confused and fail. But he does curving to help. Don't take if you don't have to.

studied like hell and still couldn't shake a grade above an 80. the content is actually interesting in certain parts and i found he explained reasonably well, but when it came to the tests, i left them feeling good but ended up doing much worse than i thought. his lectures go around in circles a lot and aren't the most concise, lots of typos too

Where do I even start with him. Firstly, he's NOT an educator, I think he should stick to what he's OK at, lab work. He shouldn't be near students, content is interesting but SO disorganized, assignments are heavy, grading is tough and worst of all, he thinks he's a good prof LOL. So rude in his emails. U thought U ate? gimme that plate. AVOID!!!!

Id rather restart my entire undergraduate degree than have to ever take another course with this joke of a professor. The most unprofessional professor I have ever met, extremely rude in his emails. Avoid at all costs

This course is interesting but VERY unorganized and some of the assignments are unclear. Luc Poitras is extremely rude despite preaching about proper email etiquette. I would rather eat an entire OC transpo bus tire than have him as a prof. ever again. If you ever happen to be stuck w Luc, please make sure you have easy courses that same semester.

prob the worst prof i've taken. very disorganized and extremely unclear grading criteria. the hw instructions are very unclear so i recommend attending lectures. the final exam is really difficult so maybe rewatch all the lectures to be prepared. lab manuel and protocols are extremely difficult to follow and poorly written. do better, luc.

Hes a really tough grader, i took metabolism with him, he already knows its heavy on material yet he still chose to give us the most unsolvable exam questions that take much more time to solve than what has been designated, Final was 3 hours long, requires at least 4.evaluation was kind of vague, depending on class average he might boost few marks

The professor was really useless and disrespectful with me. The way he emails is disrespecting the students. I also got an impression that he is racisct or what because his behaviour towards me was really disrespectful. It seemed like he was shouting on his emails. He gave me zero for the reports and claimed that i plagiarized the report.

He said that asking query is wasting his time. He was really awful.

Awful

Disrespectful

The professor was not at all good. He has no sense of talking.

He is not the right professor to be in this course

I would rather take another course instead of taking Dr. Luc as my prof. again. He was really rude in his emails. He seemed that I wasted his time. I think my time is more precious than his. He should really be more polite with students

This prof is the worst. He doesn't care about students at all, I truly believe it makes him happy to give bad grades. The workload is insane and the assignments, reports and practical exam are worth practically nothing each because there's a 35% final written exam. The final exam is so Luc can happily destroy your grade right before the holidays.

I have never put so much work into the lab component of a course and seen such terrible results. This professor gathers his TAs before each lab session and tells them to be mean and unhelpful towards students. He clowns you if you ask him questions. Prepare to spend 30 hours on each report. Retire soon buddy for everybody's sake.

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Brutal prof, extreme amounts of work and you don't even learn much. Outside of class he's rude, unkind and unwilling to help. TAs are usually nice though but thats about it. GL if u have him lol

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Humain pas terrible, prof passable.

The exam insane and worth so much that all the effort you put in every single week for the lab means very little. The lab itself is actually interesting if it wasnt for the final it wouldve been a good class.