Reviews of professor Eran Zelnik

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The workload is not bad. His lectures though can be rough. He constantly has long pauses and says UMM way too much. He focuses on clarity so much it makes it confusing and he constantly gets lost in the weeds. He doesn't give much detail on the slides either, so if you get lost you will not understand the rest of the lecture. Besides that, not bad

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Im doing you a favor, DONT TAKE THIS CLASS. Seriously. This wasnt even my writing intensive course and we wrote 14 essays. In this one class. 14. 5 throughout the semester, 3 for the midterm, and 6 for the final. There is no other assignments, just essays. Lectures have nothing to do with the essays either, so theyre basically pointless.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures are long and boring. Quizzes every week which are hard if you didn't do the reading (textbook free online). 5 movie reports which are easy. Not really a hard grader. Overall an average professor, not bad but not great.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Top 5 classes I've ever taken. The book is free and there's a guy on Youtube who reads the book out loud. You can literally listen to the book while working out, cleaning, etc. On top of that, the knowledge he has is insane.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Took this class to get a pathways criteria cleared. Honestly a stupid easy grader if you can string together a coherent sentence, work out basic argumentation, and can skim read the articles for relevant points. The class is rather biased towards race theory and America Bad, so if you can stomach that and need a non-writing intensive class, meh?

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Zelnik is the most horrible professor I have ever had. His lectures are boring and he makes no sense when he is not reading the slides. Tough grader on all the papers he has given. Lets not get started on the in-class assignments. He waits until the end of the semester to put them which gives an inaccurate idea of where your grade is actually at.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Kind of mid overall and a little bit dull but he's not necessarily bad. Having his class so early has been difficult cause all that happens every class is he just talks. There is no group work or group projects however which isnt half bad. He is always available if you need help and is generally pretty understanding and considerate.