Dawes was the most useless teacher I have ever had. When I took his class he had several students drop. He laughs in your face when you ask him questions, and is very elitist.

Mr. Dawes floods his class with lecture and lab work. No textbook required but would possibly help. Forget asking him questions. A lot of information to absorb,good luck.

Wow, worst class ever. This was not a 101 class. Don't expect to get any help... or a good grade.

This professor is extremely difficult. His lectures barely tell any information on the labs. I am taking this class online and me nor some of the other students can figure out some of the questions. I spend many hours trying to find answers to the labs that are not there. If you like geology you may enjoy this class but if not just take biology.

This shouldn't be called a 101 class! Lectures are hard to follow. Tough on grading. Information was nice, learned more from the textbook and Google than I did him. Gets of track during lectures. Two quizzes per week, discussion board and week summary with an occasional lab.

Not sure how he grades half the time and does not give explanations for why he gives you that grade. He gave me and a friend two totally different grades even though we did the exact same thing for a lab. He also expects you to mail in assignments by a certain date, so get ready to buy a stamp book.

Dr. Dawes is definitely smart, as he tend to talk down to all his students. His lectures are hard to follow, he assumes you know what he's talking about all the time without explanation. He's a perfectionist and will correct his own work 3-4 times during lectures making it easy for the mind to stray.

Do not take him. That was the hardest class I have ever taken and everything was self taught. The lectures do not match the quizzes so I was left wondering what I was doing wrong and he gave absolutely no specific feedback. Oh, and he himself created the website youll use for lectures so being self taught in this class was very difficult.

Do not take this class if you don't have to. Dawes is a very inconsistent grader and hardly ever gives feedback. The lectures are long and tedious and you often have to do lots of your own research for quizzes and labs. Assignment weight is also horrible. Don't be surprised to see your grade drop 1 or 2% if you miss a few points on a discussion.

Took the online PNW 208 Geology class from Dr. Dawes. Do NOT take this class. There is no text book, only Dr. Dawes' self written lectures and labs for information, that are to hard to follow. Labs are terrible and impossible to do well in, and you have to mail a hard copy. Dawes gives no direction, this is a google the answer class.

Terrible teacher. Lectures were literally written in 2001, and have only been minimally updated since. Everything is unorganized and he repeats everything at least once, but is inconsistent with his facts so who knows what is real and what isn't. If he spent half the time he uses correcting grammar, redoing the class, we'd have a functional class.

He is an extremely harsh grader. I would ask him questions through email for my online class and he would give smartass comments or not answer my questions at all. This makes it very difficult for me to learn. Also, don't EVER send him things separately because if they arrive at differnt times he will give you a 0 for the one he hasn't gotten yet.

This is by far one of the hardest classes I had ever taken. Whenever asked a question, he would refer to how we should "reread the lecture". Regardless, his lectures held no information pertaining to the assignments. He has absolutely no care to teach the class properly.

Dr. Dawes is hands down the most frustrating teacher I've ever had in my schooling experience. When you submit assignments he does give feedback, unfortunately it's generic feedback and he sends the same thing to everyone, so you never know what you specifically did wrong. His lectures are poorly written and difficult to read.

Dr. Dawes just seemed to not really care and just went through the material very fast and not in great detail. Would not suggest.

So disappointed with Dawes. I let him know I knew my grade was low but I was really trying to improve it he replied with a smartass comment about how my grade didn't really affect him so why would he care. His advice was lazy and he would send the same generic feedback to every student. Shame that an interesting class can be ruined by the teacher.

Do not take this class, he is a tough grader and doesn't give helpful feedback on assignments. The workload in this class is unreal, don't take it if you do not have time to study and put all of your efforts into it. But for real don't take this class!

His quizzes have nothing to do with the material at times. Hes a very hard grader . He expects you to know the material fast. I had to HIRE a geology tutor so I can pass the course because there is no geology tutor on campus which makes it so much harder. Hes a very nice & smart man but I think hed be better off teaching at graduate schools.

This class was by far the HARDEST class I've taken to date. The amount of scattered information was all over the map (Pun intended). There were way too many pages of text to sift through and almost all of it was confusing to say the least. Quizzes and Labs barely aligned with the lectures making it hard to complete on your own.

It's annoying having to deal with him as he will go off tangent when giving the lectures and when you least expect it he will move on to the next problem. His reading reviews make no sense and sometime the information isn't in the book at all! If you need a natural science credit, I highly recommend not taking any classes with him

Hardest class I've taken from WVC, not enjoyable at all. Lectures and overall course was poorly organized and difficult to work through. Dawes is obviously a well educated, intelligent man but he holds unattainable standards for a beginner class. Please take a different natural science class for your own sake, it'll save you a lot of frustration.

The worst class I have taken here. I havent received final grades yet, so assuming my grade, but let me say-DO NOT take this class if you are anything short of a genius. His lectures are wordy, and not comprehensible for the average reader. I will say one thing, he deserves the Dr in front of his name, but he needs to be teaching grad students.

Wouldn't recommend taking this class because it's an online class. The lectures are written by the professor himself, the information in those lectures are vague and it doesn't correlate with the labs and quizzes. Asking for feedback if you didn't do well on a lab is basically a waste of time because he doesn't give good feedback.

His Geology of the PNW class is supposed to be beginner/entry-level, so no prereqs. Well, he expects you to already have a lot of previous knowledge about the stuff you are reading about. The lectures and labs you have to read are written dryly and are hard to understand. The Drawings you have to submit, have the worse description ever.

This is the worst class that I have taken before. Lecture's do not always give you the answers to the quizzes and labs. When asked for more help the help was vague and got me no where. I would not recommend taking this class.

Buyer beware. This class made me hate rocks. Not really but it was close. Maybe Dawes is better in person but online it is just bad. DONT. DO. IT. CLICK AWAY or your first day of the week will be Friday and the last day of the week will be Thursday. WHY? IDK!!! but I'm suspecting for chaos's sake. - Sincerely a normally straight A student

He posted a 4 hour final exam 2 days before it was due with absolutely zero warning. Very frustrating as we were already a couple days into finals week and with there being no mention of any sort of final, I sent my textbook back. Very unhappy with this professor and would NEVER recommend.

I wish I could give Dr. Dawes a shot, but there is no way I would willingly take this class again. I had to undergo pure agony to keep my grade this high. I am typically the stereotypical "straight A's" student, but this man made me have a burning hatred towards him, without even knowing him. Never take this class, unless you like suffering.

terrible communication with no feedback his lectures DO NOT HELP AT ALL. The due date was on Friday, so I would typically do them Thursday afternoon. He would knock off points because he wanted it to be turned in on Wednesday but did not make that clear whatsoever. RUN WHILE YOU CAN

I have never experienced anything worse than this man being my professor. Terrible professor and was the least helpful teacher I have ever had.

Way to advance for an entry-level course, highly do not recommend.

Dr. Dawes is arguably the worst professor I have ever had. He does not warn of supplies needed in advance. You will be trying to keep up with the weekly workload as it flows into the next week. He is condescending and does not answer questions in a polite way. You will work hard and your grade will not reflect that. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

DO NOT TAKE ASTR101 WITH DAWES! With discussions, quizzes, tests, weekly reviews, and projects, something is due almost every single day. On top of that, 8 hours of lecture videos each week. This 101 class is a HUGE time commitment so your grades in other classes will also suffer. As others said, condescending. Unclear. Rambles off-topic. Bewarned.

Without a doubt the worst professor I've encountered in my college career. Good work does not result in good scores in his assignments. If you do the work you'll do well, however his grading standards are all over. Lectures, the one night of 3 hours of class, are him reading his own past materials and not clearly answering concerns/questions.

I love astronomy, however, this Professor seemed to make this course more difficult than it needed to be. There is no clear way he will grade your work. Sure, you could say that he "uses" a rubric, but even when you follow it, it seems as if he would come up with unknown loopholes for you to jump through.

He's a very tough grader. Hardly gives feedback, most of the time if you do good he'll respond with "great". You have to give more than what's expected to get a decent grade. DO NOT RECOMMEND. Also if you ask for help he'll most likely send you a link to a website.

You should stay clear no matter the circumstances. This is the worst prof at WVC. He is impossibile to deal with for an introductory course. There is no way to please this man with his arbitrary grading system. You can do assignments verbatim of his notes and he still fails you.

His grading standards are all over the place, he does not "stick" to a proper grading system and seems to forget his own rules that he puts down for projects and labs. Any amount of good work that you put down is not enough to receive a good enough score.

I've gone to 7 schools and dealt w so many teachers Dawes is the worst I've ever had. His class is hard, and he doesnt offer help when I ask, he ghosted me. He gave me a 0/250 point final only bc I didnt have pictures. The 8 pages of carefully written work was 100% disregarded. besides this, his grading system sucks, his lectures are 20yrs old.

Tons of work, over what should be a weekly limit. Not only this, but work is not even close to entry level geology, prof is out of touch with reality.

On assignments he claims are very easy and many students pass easily, I end up failing, even if I followed everything he said during lectures. If answers are not written the way he wrote them, then expect to get them wrong. This doesn't feel like a beginner's Astrology class. 1/10 do not recommend.

One of my hardest classes EVER! He is extremely confusing with both instructions and assignments. I spent 30 hours a week on this class at a minimum. I DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!! However, if you get stuck in this class like I did; meet with him overZzoom or in person, he will likely give you a better grade (that's what I did).

I wouldn't take this class again. He rarely has a rubric for grading, it's basically a free for all regardless of what you do. The material doesn't match the quizzes and this is anything but an introductory course. You'd be better off sticking to a different class if you want your GPA to stay somewhat intact. Good luck.

This professor is easily the worst teacher ive ever had. He gives you a big lecture to read and you have to do many assignments that are only vaguely related to eachother or the lecture. He grades however he wants and doesnt give any explanation when you get a low score. He has vague outlines for projects, and all his material are from before 2014.

So much homework

I'm only on the first week and I already want to drop this class but I need the lab credit. I wouldn't recommend taking this class if you want a social life in any way. The lectures are both outdated and they don't cover much of the material at all. I wrote a 500-word response to a lab question and he just said "ok". STAY AWAY!!!

Dr. Dawes astronomy class has way too much work and is too strictly graded for an intro course. I was very exited to learn more about astronomy before this class, but not anymore. On my last lab paper he gave me half credit for not citing sources when he was the one answering all of the questions in the lab, I was writing down his words. Stay away.

Taking this class made me hate my life and hate geology more. Mr. Dawes is a very educated geologist but is NOT by any means a professor you want.

Dr Dawes is a strict grader and his instructions are very confusing. He's very particular and often does not actually include all the requirements in the instructions. He once told us to mail him an assignment and then after I did that, he told me that I needed to send an image of the assignment and turn it in.

very harsh grader and hard to understand what you did wrong. With all of the readings it is difficult to find the exact information you need. He doesn't like when you use google or websites and prefers that you only use what he gives you. Assigns 6 assignments every topic usually all due in same week or two weeks.

this is the worse class I've ever taken, I want to ropemaxx. he gives me 3.5/15 on like every assignment and the class average grade is like a 4/10 for every assignment. do not take this class, I feel terribly depressed and extremely overwhelmed by the work that this professor provides.