Reviews of professor Servaas van der Berg

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Servaas is clearly very knowledgable, but I found that he used a lot of intermediate philosophy vocabulary for an introductory course. He speaks the way that academic papers are written, which can make it hard to take notes when there are no slides to reference. Otherwise, he is very sweet, and the grading is pretty easy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took this course thinking Dr. Van Der Berg was related to Serena Van Der Woodsen from the hit series Gossip Girl. I ended up learning more about the Ancient Greek mode of thought than I wanted to. Alas, I gained enough knowledge to challenge Dr. VDB to a thought provoking debate, which I won. If you are a fan of GG I do not recommend this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Servaas was a great prof. Previous averages for PHIL 125 were much higher than the average of my class though but I think that was partly due to online learning. Servaas gave great lectures and was very supportive. He answers questions in class, in office hours and fast email response. Lots of reading! His expectations are pretty clear.