# STEPHEN BARCLAY — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## instructor

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### name

STEPHEN BARCLAY

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    "comment": "I'm so saddened to see such negative reviews of Steve. I had him two years ago for micro101, and although the exams were challenging, he was extremely willing to help students understand it. If you go to office hours or the optional discussions, you'll get so much more out of the class.",
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    "comment": "Steve is a very loving and gentle professor who cares about his students. It is helpful to go to his office hours. However, even with the above, microbio 101 is an extremely difficult class. You need to memorize and start early. He offers 5 exams but you can only take 4. I recommend taking the first so you're prepared and can &quot;gauge&quot; the class.",
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    "comment": "Do not take this course with this professor. He is a very nice person and helpful if you come to office hours, but lectures are useless to go to, exams are hard (will expect you to know the slightest details) and this course surely does not feel like 101 level. It will lower your GPA.",
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    "comment": "Not the best professor. He gives you powerpoint slides and lecture summaries, which are useful. Records his lectures so you hardly have to go to class. Tests are pure memorization and applications, which he doesn't teach in class. Not the best at explaining things simply. Don't take if you haven't had bio before.",
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    "comment": "not the greatest teacher i've ever had. lectures are pretty scattered and exams can be tough since he doens't always teach everything on them and there is no textbook. if you don't a signifcant bio background don't take him",
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    "comment": "Barclay is a very nice guy and he's helpful in person, but this class is terrible. You get to learn about interesting things, but Barclay makes it about pure memorization and will literally at times show you a list and tell you to memorize everything on it. Cool content, but Barclay just kills it. Luckily, he's a nice guy and will happily help you.",
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