There is hardly a word to describe how awful of a professor this guy is. Tests are ridiculous, as is the homework. Has to curve grades so much its absurd. Throughout the year would ask if we learned stuff as freshmen, which we obviously didn't because it is an advanced genetics course. Kind of a jerk too. Stay far and clear, this prof is awful.

Horrible professor. Tests are nothing like he says they are and are very very hard. His answer for everything was I don't know. Stay away if you want to protect your GPA

omg. worst professor on the face of the earth. test are extremely tricky so studying is useless. ive never got a c before!!! dr hoeh is pompous, arrogant and extremely rude. i would rather jump infront of a bus and live on life support instead of taking a class with him

Worst professor I've had at KSU so far. Had him for Life on planet Earth. His lectures were always off topic and test material was not covered in class. We had in-class quizzes over 50 page articles often, and when students wouldn't participate in dicussion, he would give everyone F's for the quiz for that day. AVOID

The class is not hard if you go and get the clicker points. He is just rude and opinionated. I would take this class with another prof. if I was you.

He's very fast pace

do not take this class with him if you can avoid him what ever it takes terrible teacher even if you go to all of his classes and study you prob still won't get the grade u want cuz he likes to ask questions about things he didn't even teach worst teacher I have had to date.

Stay far away from this professor. He is very rude to his students. He asks if anyone has questions, but doesn't listen to them if he does not agree. His exams are really difficult and attendance is mandatory for clicker points.

Unless you're good at listening and writing fast, this class is hard. He zooms through everything, and he rants about other things (education/govt/sugar) more than bio. He also yells at you if you don't understand something. You end up learning more outside of class than in. Lots of clicker points, though.

Horrible. Dude is a complete psycho. He just zooms through his slides and goes on crazy rants about society and how our education system is failing us. Demands you ask questions but makes you feel stupid when you do. I understand he wants you to do well but there are much better ways to help people. Always walked out of his class feeling depressed

TERRIBLE. First semester back after 2 years and I almost quit because of this class. He goes off on long rants about the education system and politics. Reads right from slides, and goes really fast. Yells at everyone for not taking notes when everything is uploaded online. Calls out and embarrasses students, lectures are long and boring.

Students usually cannot finish asking questions before he cuts them off. There are two 50 point papers due at the end of the semester, if you don't have 3(yes 3) staples in them, you a ZERO on BOTH. He often talks about his tenure. Some exam questions aren't from the notes or books, just stuff he happens to say in class. 5 exams & 0 study guides.

He is an awful professor. He often talks down to students, cuts students off and goes on and on about politics (very very left thinking) . He begs for students to ask questions in class and then cuts them off and makes them feel dumb. Often gives pop quizzes when he thinks we don't participate enough. Overly particular on test days.

Very insulting to students during lecture and goes very fast through the PowerPoints. Please do yourself a favor and take any science class with someone else. You won't learn very much from him, you'll have to teach yourself.

worst professor ive ever had. he demands students ask question and cuts them off when they do. he rants about politics, nutrition, and how our education system is messed up; anything other than the actual topic of LOPE. goes really fast through lectures-be prepared to teach yourself. DO NOT TAKE.

For one, hes tenured. If that isnt enough to scare you off, I hope you like a man who enjoys hearing his own voice and has overdosed on redpills (side effects include having no sympathy towards students), and one who makes fun of students for not doing as well as hed like on his clicker quizzes. Also never directly answers students questions.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!! This professor is the meanest man I have ever met, he made a girl in my class cry because he yelled at her so hard for not stapling her papers together, and she stapled them together separately. He flies through the lecture slides and then pushes people to ask questions and then when someone does he screams at you.

This might of well have been a political class the way he treated it. He often went off on tangents of shaming everyone that lived differently than him and then put questions on the tests about said tangents. Also don't even think of taking tech into his room. If your phone went off because your mother was dying and you'd be dropped a letter grade.

He likes participation

Dr. Hoeh cares more about forcing you to enjoy the information than he does actually making it enjoyable. His lectures are boring, and he takes more time explaining how to be vegan than actually teaching biology.

he requires you buy an expensive clicker just to keep attendance and for a few quizzes. he also took 25 points off my final papers because my margins were .2 too big. He spends class time preaching his beliefs rather than teaching material. Its an easy class but hes so annoying its not even worth it, I would have rather taken a harder course.

He could be a very great professor, but I believe he is too passionate about things not related to the course material we need to know. He goes off on tangents about doing on a plant based diet ever class. Hardly ever used the book except to look for the questions for the two papers at end of semester. Tests were difficult.

He lowered my grade by ten percent because of an essay at the end of the semester had "inappropriate margins" even though I did the exact margins he asked for. Many other people had the same problem with their grades being lowered because of this, 1 day before the final. He is a heavy lecturer and did not respect his students at all.

Hoeh is an unnecessarily difficult person. Fails to test over vital information and instead focuses on hyper-detailed information, disconnected from the larger concepts of the class. The final paper, the only assignment worth as much as a test, was ridiculously graded on the formatting of the paper, not content. Would advise never taking his class

Please do yourself a favor and not take this course with this professor. He makes tests early morning where you have 10 minutes to access it no matter if your laptop breaks, have wifi issues or any other malfunctions if you do not open the test within the 10 minute window, that a 0 then according to him. Along with that, the most terrible grader.

This professor gave everyone a chance to do extra credit & it was worth 100 points all or nothing & that would've given me a passing grade, and I know my paper was perfect, I had my writing professor check it & the writing commons and it was good to go. He didn't even look at it because it "looked like" the margins weren't 1 inch.

DO NOT TAKE HIS COURSES IF YOU HAVE A VERY BUSY SCHEDULE. He only allowed us to take quizzes/exams from 5am-12 pm on Tuesdays. If you had classes from 7 am-12 pm, better wake up at 5! Better hope you have perfect wifi as well because if your wifi goes out, he won't help you.

His lectures are awful. He gives you MAYBE 15 seconds to write down full slides (NOT typed), and wants you to take the notes 3 times. He gives too much content for a little amount of time. His textbook was sold out, but you'll barely need it. He requires clickers for attendance and quizzes (which are $60). His teaching methods are VERY dated.

I took this class as a part of my kent core. it was labeled as a basic biology course by my advisor, and I expected it to be easy. This class was easily the hardest class I have taken yet. No laptops allowed, random quizzes all the time. Assignments are not explained thoroughly, yet he grades them strictly. 10/10 would not recommend.

Walter is old school. The course is taught through powerpoint slides which is outrageous. He speeds through them very quickly and technology is banned from his classroom. A $60 clicker is required because there a multiple clicker quizzes throughout the week. There is no homework and the course is based off of 5 exams which is your grade.

He is very lecture heavy, goes off topic very frequently, doesn't give good answers to anything. He goes through slides very quickly, and you have to buy a $60 clicker to get points.

This is the worst and most stressful class I have ever taken. His definition of teaching is speed reading the powerpoint slides. His tests are so unbelievably hard for no reason as the content presented in class is the same thing I learned in freshman biology. You also have to buy a $60 clicker to take quizzes and it rarely works.

I attended exactly one meeting of this class before making the wise decision to get out while I could. LOPE is a kentcore elective, but he treated it like a major weeding course. He expects you to buy expensive outdated tech to participate. He also fails to provide reasonable accommodation unless SAS forces his hand. This is insane for a gen-ed.

In order to do well, you have to study so much for the tests.

Mandatory attendance, surprise pop quizzes with trick questions, exams that test your limits of studying as a student. The class is ran like a military boot camp when in reality it is a basic biology class like that of high school. Easily the hardest course I have ever taken just to reach one of Kent core's required credits.

He's a decent person but two things he does horribly, those clicker quizzes in which he forces you to use outdated technology for points and gets mad at YOU if the old tech doesnt work well. Also when you take the clicker quizzes he rushes really quick and you might miss points just cause you weren't quick enough. And the papers assignment...

Dr. Hoeh makes his classes near impossible. This man keeps me up at night and if he didn't curve his exams everyone would fail.

He requires you to read lots of articles outside of class and then puts questions about them on exams even of it had nothing to do with class. I had him for life on planet earth but he taught a class on what foods we should eat and how the government and education system are failing us. Avoid his class if possible.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. He will make you buy a 90 dollar clicker, is EXTREMLEY rude to students and treats them with no respect, and is veryyy test heavy with difficult tests. He will often go through 3 powerpoint presentations within one class and he barely covers the information and then you are expected to know it all for the next test.

Half his lecture was him going on tangents about what you shouldn't eat (Meat, sugar, canned things, etc.) I've been recovering from an issue with disordered eating and these lectures made it worse. he also read slides as fast as humanly possible and was demeaning. I wouldn't recommend him to anyone.

This man does not teach. Reads like one sentence off slides and ping pongs onto a completely different topic. overall impossible lectures and just a horrible professor. worst class i've taken.

DO NOT TAKE HIM IF YOU CAN GET OUT OF IT DO IT!

This man speedruns his lectures at light speed and acts like you're supposed to know all of it without going back to it later. He was also quite rude to students. He got upset with me because my clicker was having technical difficulties (I was as close as possible to the front, just like he recommended) and if he didn't curve, nobody would pass.

This professor was really bad. I had him for HUMAN BIOLOGY but the only thing he taught us about were his views on the government and how we should eat better food as a society. I hardly learned a thing about biology because his lectures were so politically charged and aside from that, he just read off of his extremely wordy slides.

Professor Hoeh teaches this core class like it's the most important class you will ever take. I shouldn't be studying more for this than a major class. He gets mad when people don't participate, but ALSO gets annoyed when people don't participate the way he deems necessary. He lacks perspective on the average student.

This professor is consistently disrespectful towards students. He often speaks to us as if we're incompetent, yet gets frustrated when students don't ask questions. Perhaps it's because we don't want to be cut off mid-sentence. No one in this class has been rude or behaved in a way that warrants the treatment we've received from him.

This professor is like a GPS that constantly recalculates but doesn't help you get to your destination. He demands participation, then cuts you off or gives condescending responses. His lectures are disjointed, and when you ask for help, he just points to the syllabus instead of offering guidance. A frustrating experience. Very rude professor.

This professor talks about extremely controversial topics including voting, American school systems, beliefs on evolution, and caffeine killing you. I would not recommend him to anyone for he gets off topic lecturing the class on "not voting for billionaires" instead of focusing on the actual content of the class. He gives pop quizzes.

this professor is actually pretty terrible. i took the class not only because it was required, but his lectures are all politically motivated to reflect his radical left beliefs about how the public education system and govt is failing us. he makes many rude comments towards students and speaks to us in a condescending manner. extremely tough tests

This professor I took in fall 2024, and he was absolutely terrible. He yelled at me after I told him that I have SAS accommodations, and he told me that he doesn't have to help me with my academic accommodations in which it is required for him too. I had to withdrawal in this class in late October because I couldn't bear his attuite anymore.

This professor creates a frustrating and unproductive learning environment. His lectures are disorganized and heavily influenced by personal political views, often delivered in a condescending tone. He's dismissive toward students, demands participation but interrupts or belittles responses, and provides little meaningful support.

This prof is probably the worst one i've had so far. He barely talks about the curriculum, he focuses majority on his personal and political beliefs. He demands class participation from all student but then out right disrespects them in front of the whole classes and doesn't let them even finish their thought. 1000% avoid this professor if you can.

If I wanted to be this lost, I'd just use Apple Maps.

As I sat through his 4th lecture on the evils of Nutrigrain bars and Coca Cola, I closed my eyes for a moment and glimpsed my tuition dollars roasting over an open flame. In that moment, I knew that I had reached the apex of the Kent State experience. A great primer on why academics are becoming increasingly devalued in our society.

I feel as if my hard earned money to pay for this class has gone to waste. It is Day 2 and we have yet to even talking about anything to do with bio. Professor shouldn't be a teacher because he is educating political opinions. Argues with every student regardless if they agree or not.

This professor will be the reason I get gray hairs. Don't bother buying the book—it's completely useless because you never actually use it! Most lectures are spent talking about how phones are bad or sharing his political opinions. Then he'll skip parts of the lecture, leaving you to teach yourself because he wasted the class time. STAY FAR AWAY!

Just don't take his class and your life will be very easy! :)

I admittedly have not been in his class in over a year, but I feel like I need to write a review so people don't make the same mistake as me. He once berated a classmate in front of everyone after they asked a question, made us pay $60 for a subscription to take ATTENDANCE and pop quizzes, and went on insane tangents. Please avoid at all costs.