His lecture are a bit useless. He just goes over the figures in the textbooks and not anything else. Also during lectures he kinda goes all over the place. For example, one day he just randomly began talking about bulls. NOT the greatest prof. On another note, his application of biogenics is well done however the class was lost.

absolutely terrible teacher, has no clue what he is doing... puts up pictures and talks about them. Did not write notes down at all, the whole semester. He is an absolute FAIL of a prof, stay away from his course as much as possible. Trust me, this guy is useless.

HORRIBLE LECTURER! does not follow syllabus at all! avoid him like the plague.

Really bad prof.

Stay away from this prof!! Seriously I did what everyone on this page said I went to lectures and copied down everything he said as well as listened to the online recordings and in the end he gives me a D. Also his lectures are so boring and useless just avoid him

I never took a class from him but happened to read one of his work (in Candolin and Wong 2012: Behavioural responses to a changing world, chapter 7). This chapter is among the poorest scientific work I have been reading. There is no information on the topic given and almost no citations to support his claims, besides his own work. Avoid.

Bad at giving lectures. He talks about things that aren't even related to what the week's lab is on/what chapter you're currently on in tutorials/labs. He's a nice guy, but his lectures are dry because they are all pictures/paintings and he just natters on about it. No notes in lecture, hard to listen even if you are at the front.

Just purely bad. His lectures are about his life story and nothing much more. I cant say much other than the fact that his profession aligns with putting students to sleep.

Slides are only comprised of graphics/charts - WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING HE SAYS otherwise you won't have any clue whats going on. His explanations were quick and often vague. All exams open book, but don't rely on that to help you pass (very little time to complete questions). Would NOT recommend him as a prof. Avoid at all costs.

Unclear, boring, and just straight awful. Its pathetic going to class because he doesnt teach you anything he just shows you pictures. All exams are open book (BEWARE) and they dont even begin to cover what is in class. I dont mind working hard for a class if I learnt something but with his class you will work hard and still learn nothing.

His lectures are very boring, the way he talks puts you to sleep. No words on the slides, even though it's open book it's still very hard. You need to prepare a lot. Midterm was easy final was rough.

Frequently talks about his life, physics, economics, sociology, history, and other things non-biology related. Lecture slides have nothing but blurry and illegible pictures from the textbook. Very monotoned. His exams are difficult and open book. Some questions in the final require you to use other skill than biology skills(e.g English literature)

The grading for Ron's tests were VERY subjective and if you had a complaint about how something was graded then he got very defensive and would argue with you. Lectures were very uninformative and worth skipping. Tests only accounted for 40% of our grade thank god because there was an average of about 50% for both the final and the midterm.

Open book exam was the hardest exam I've ever done in my life. His lectures contain no notes whatsoever, and is mostly composed of photos from the textbook. He rambles on about things that aren't important and are mostly off topic. Iclicker quizzes weekly on topics that you can't find the answer to from the textbook or lab. Biggest waste of time.

Boring Lecture... monotoned. iclicker sucks.

Lazy in "marking" exams. Tells his students he will look over our exam answers but lets the computer mark it with errors in what's really correct and what's really wrong. Difficult to get a hold of. However, I like the sound of his voice, he should really consider narrating a documentary or something.

class was made harder than it should be. Our first midterm average was a 49.8% and there's barely any help outside of lec. I'll give him this...he made our second midterm relatively easier because of the first average but its a huge time crunch. He tests the smallest details he mentions in lecture and lecture slides are all just picture. use tb :)

On the finals he gives 100 questions in 120 minutes. then proceeds to give huge comprehension type questions. It takes a good 5 mins to understand the questions. Moreover you have to hand write the questions. I am surprised how this guy got approved to do this type of exam

His tests are literally ridiculous, and the averages are always so low (40-50%). One of the questions literally asked what boat Charles Darwin was on. Such a waste of time looking up the answer when the time is already so limited.

His slides barely have any wordings, just full of pictures and diagrams from the textbook. So in lectures you have to quickly jot everything down. He tests things that are incredibly unreasonable and words the questions so confusingly. Exams are difficult, it is open book but you barely have time to finish, 1 minute per mark. I do not recommend.

Don't take this class with him. His lectures are random and ridiculous. Midterms are unfair due to time restraints. Open book exams but Google a enemy. Everything he says in lectures is on exams but he talks alot. Only the review lectures were good. Class avg extremely low and blamed us for being dumb. Final was ridiculous. Must put 30 hours a week

Lectures were disorganized and consisted of Ron spewing random facts at us for 50 minutes. No matter how much I studied the material, the exam results were always frustrating because the questions are very poorly written, focus on random parts of the concepts, and there is a major time crunch. I do not recommend.

Tests are based on lectures, and nothing he says connects so it's hard to understand the material if you've never taken bio 11 or other bio courses. You have to end up teaching yourself the material again when you study, and even then it's still hard to understand since his lectures are just slides and textbook diagrams.

Lectures are horrible, don't make any sense. Nothing connects, he talks the whole lecture & expects you to know everything in lecture for the exams. You literally have to teach urself everything and it's very difficult because he doesn't provide any notes. His slides are just pictures from the textbook. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS IF IT'S NOT REQUIRED.

Bro he was so @ss. His lectures were all pictures; he didn't explain anything properly. Imma about to do a midterm and I don't what's on it. PLS PLS PLS take any other class thx.

Highly recommend for students apply LOP if you need course for high grade or for mandatory. Ron is a professional knowledge spreader but bad at teach. He mentioned his job is not for student to get a good grade, but his lecture is obscure. I suggested if you need BISC 101 and 102, apply LOP right now, do not hesitate.

Must write every word he says & when he says it to make it through the midterm & exam. 40% class average for midterm, given a minute per question due to it being open-book (50 minutes for 50 points). Do not ask him for help with assignments; he will be condescending & dismissive towards you. CAUTION: Pre-Meds should avoid this professor.

He is just not a good professor. He is too old and out of date with modern things. He has spread misinformation in the class. The assignments barely relate to the course material but are worth 15% each.

The tests were so obscure for the exams. The midterm class average was 42%. Midterm material was very highly specific/barely touched upon in lecture. 1 min/point, open-book didn't help at ALL. I went to Ron for help and he said he didn't care about my success in the course but his role was just to teach us biology. DO NOT TAKE COURSE IF NOT NEEDED!

Doesn't really teach and uses a slide full of pictures and no description.

This prof does not know how to teach. His slides are only of pictures so they are not helpful. What he teaches in class is nothing on the midterm and final. Very hard class

Don't take classes with him, worst prof ever. He doesn't know how to teach and all his slides are pictures, his exams are ridiculous and so unfair. midterm average was a fail, studying is pointless if you don't have every word he says written down. You can use google on exams but he doesn't agree with googles answers so don't even bother.

Doesn't phrase questions in a clear manner and will often try trick questions on tests... lots of them. He says you don't need to know any of the material even though you will. curves grades. overall, it's not the best.

Terrible prof, avoid at all costs. Blames students for doing bad on the midterm, and says its not his fault when the average was 50% and the year before was 30%. He skips over important parts and his slides are all over the place, and only teaches with images. If you have him, good luck.

TIme to retire

He doesn't know how to teach. His lectures only have pictures. I would not recommend taking him as your prof for any bio course!

Horrible Prof should retire this ancient grandpa

This dude Doesn't teach. I genuinely believe he likes watching people fail his class. Probably gets his jollies off to it.

Doesn't teach, the material is not the most difficult but he somehow has made it the hardest class i have taken. Lectures are just photos with random things that he talks about which he usually proceeds to go on and say " this does not matter in the course" after 10 minutes of talking. Never clear on what he expects us to know or take away . AVOID

content is not hard, but he overcomplicates so many topics and wastes time by using pictures on his slide with no context. His slides are all over the place, and forgets to add things, and when he goes over something important for once, he skims over it and moves on. I would not recommend this prof if he is teaching, better to wait for someone else

Horrible prof and horrible class. I'm not even in this course but I've heard so many bad things. He doesn't teach properly just posts random things that aren't relevant to the actual course and his exams are poorly structured. I don't get why he is a prof when students are struggling so much. What happened.?

Doesn't care about the class or students grade, he said he would curve it however nothing was curved regardless about the amount of students failing which he so claims "isn't his fault". No professor should be showing a chart of a grade average 40 more so percent, be proud of it and saying that it was the students issue not his.

It is what it is

do NOT take this class with ron if you have the option of taking it with someone else. anybody would be better than him. his classes are just him rambling on and on with very little useful information actually said. how do you know which information is useful? good question. you dont! horrible professer. im not sure why they havent fired him yet.

Not even over exaggerating when I say avoid at all costs! Didn't even learn anything

Worst prof i've ever had in my three years university experience, like he simply can't teach and doesn't know how teach, and he loves seeing his students getting low grades, i don't even know how sfu lets this kinda person teach!

Save yourself and never take a class with Ron. He doesn't care about the students at all and has impossible tests. He never even gave us the grades back for 3 of the most important things so there's no way to check if the grade given seems realistic.

This professor does not care about you and he voices it many times during the semester. He speaks in a condescending tone and constantly wants us to buy his textbook which is priced in USD?? He only wants the answers in tests to be in his words and it doesn't help that his lectures are only photos. Avoid at all costs!!

He doesn't care about his students. You don't need to buy his textbook its useless. Exams were brutal and the average for both mid term and final was just above 50%. Avoid him at all costs

he is very stubborn with restricted answer key for his exams. exams are way too confusing and challenging

Lectures had little writing on slides and the only way to review was to write down what he said beside the slide or listen to his recordings which were awful to follow because he jumps from slide to slide in random order and put duplicates of the same slide in, no clue why. lectures sucked the life out of me. Make work assignments too, just AVOID!

Prof was often unhelpful during office hours, very vague lectures with only pictures as lecture slides, making it impossible to learn. On top of that, you needed a 67% to pass the course with a C- which is insane for a first year class. Half the class failed the first midterm and the class average ended up being a C+, take class with different prof

Pictures instead of words on slides. they have NOTHING to do with Biology. I never attended a single lecture because it's a waste of your time. He lets you use Google during exams. Don't be fooled, that doesn't help you. His questions are when was the author of this book we discussed once in class born. The textbook he uses is written by him.

If you have the option to choose between this lecturer and another, always pick the other. He doesn't include words on his lecture slides, makes you buy his books, which you will never use again for another class, and doesn't like to be questioned about his grading (I got yelled at for pointing out a mistake). Overall, he just needs to retire.”……

If you have the option to choose between this lecturer and another, always pick the other. He doesn't include words on his lecture slides, makes you buy his books, which you will never use again for another class, and doesn't like to be questioned about his grading (I got yelled at for pointing out a mistake). Overall, he just needs to retire.

Dude is the most unprofessional prof I've ever met, not only do his lecture slides not have words on it... he posts the most random questions completely unrelated to biology in our exams... How is anyone even supposed to know that. Overall he was a lazy guy who should just retire now instead of suffocating more students.

Class Average for final was a 49%, if you were wondering if you should take this class take it with someone else. He has a bunch of unnecessary tasks throughout the course like a forest diary and a forest walk uncorrelated with the course content. Ron was extremely rude when I saw him in office hours despite nagging us to come for help. AVOID !!!

Does not care about his students. Midterm and final were absolute torture--hard to study for. Slides don't make sense and there's always the same few pictures and no text.

Be prepared for your own doom. This prof gives so many unneccesary assignments and questions on the exam unrelated to the course. I cannot be happier giving this rating at this time.

Bro just simply doesn't teach like he cares but class was light asf

This class had so many unneccesary assignment and lecture so bad. I live far away and have language barrier they take mark off on the exams since I didn't use proper scientific language and I end up get below class average on exams.

Bro does not teach

Class average was a C+ despite me being at roughly a 75-77% in the course. Any other course that would be a B to B+ grade. Class had so many unnecessary assignments that took a lot of time and the midterm although worth only 10% had the most bs questions completely unrelated to course content. Avoid this prof at all costs.

He's super caring and nice, honestly the best guy ever to become a prof at SFU. All the exams are super easy because they're open book and the class assignments take you almost no time to finish...... SIKE, Let's just say if you're in this guys class everything I just mentioned will only happen in your dreams!

don't bother with this manssss. at some point buddies gotta get replaced cuz ain't no way bro still teaching with all these bad reviews and being 70 years old..... might as well Enjoy your retirement bud

To all the first years( or 2nd) thinking about this course in the fall, I would highly suggest you take it the semester after as this guy singlehandedly makes the course a pain to get through. Not only is there boring useless lectures with only pictures straight from google, he also DOES NOT TEACH!!!!

Dudes a pain in the ass, don't take this class with this guy. Take it with a better prof if you want your gpa saved.

horriible class, take with better prof

Office hours are not helpful. He asked me if I "even wanted to pass this course and that by the questions I was asking him, it looked like I was not putting enough time outside of class". Instead of answering my question he spent 20 mins telling me in a condescending tone that I haven't been doing my part to succeed. I left his office in tears.

I hope this guy retires asap. He takes very interesting material and makes it boring as all hell. Do not take his class if you can help it.

The professor is nice and his lectures are okay, but the exams are extremely difficult. Even with cheat sheets allowed, the exams felt unfair and very stressful. I gave 1 star mostly because of his personality; otherwise, I would have rated lower.

I purposely hydroplaned on the highway hoping to not make it to his lectures.

this man will haunt you in your sleep and probably is the reason for sleep paralysis. he yaps about nonsense and expects you to understand every image he puts on his ppt, which is the entire slideshow, because he has no thoughts of his own.

The course material could be much more interesting if this guy wasn't the lecturer! The final exam was unfairly timed and almost everyone ran out of time. The lab exam was fairly easier but still poorly marked. With all due respect, I recommend Ron TO RETIRE for the sake of future students taking this course.