Wilfred Denetclaw

I have never seen a class so disorganized in my life. Dr. Denetclaw was not only extremely disorganized but also an extremely boring lecturer. I not only had to have both my midterms regraded because of many mistakes made on them but he also lost my final paper and I had to track him down to get my grade changed. I found the book more informative than his lectures and the writing assignment he gave was unclear and vague. I've taken alot of classes at many different schools and he was easily the worst teacher that I have ever had.

Cell biology is a potentially tough course but professor Denetclaw's utter knowledge and articulation abilities on his subject matter gives the student eyes to see. Professsor Denetclaw obviously knows his material and can sail through a really tough lecture and sometimes even stop to give clarification on the intricacy of abstract, convoluted cellular mechanics. You really have to read your chapters to be ready for what he says in lecture, but then he speaks the language of cell biology naturally. This was the first course he had taught according to him and I feel lucky because he made the cell become alive by describing its anatomy and physiology fairly well. It was a great lecture series. Denetclaw's a super nice guy and his T.A. worked hard with him to construct a first class science course. A nice touch was that the lectures were structured around a graphic power point demonstration of which could be accessed on Denetclaw's website. This is a hard three unit course, but there was no homework, beside the two papers due on cell/molec science, and the tests were somewhat forgiving considering the mind-blowing nature of the material. The semester end paper on a local cell-bio lab put me in touch with a very leading edge UCSF lab. Denetclaw's a very articulate speaker on cellular biology. Also, I thought the text we used, 'Cell and Molecular Biology' by G. Karp, 3rd edition, was fairly concise and readable compared to some other texts I've seen.