Reviews of professor Halbert (Hal) Barton

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His expectations can seem a bit unclear & sometimes, when you ask him about something youll wind up with even more questions. As long as you actively participate in lectures instead of zoning out & pay close attention to the syllabus for any papers that are due and write them out thoroughly using info from the textbooks youll likely do fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
passionate teacher, puts in effort to make his lectures interesting. 3 writing assignments, midterm and final. write down everything u can and keep all the handouts!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He is a great professor! He brings in articles that stir up great class conversations. Yeah he can be borring sometimes and you just daze off. Try not to, everything he says and writes are important. Even though test are open book and open note. There are like 4 books to use to i suggest you read!!!

Rating: 4.5/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
it may seem like a lot of reading but the work is really easy and he's a good teacher and always willing to help you with any problem. a lot of class discussion involved and he shows videos. overall he's one of the best teachers i've had at that school

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Hes not the worst, but hes not the best. Hes a nice man who knows his stuff but hes all over the place. I went to every lecture, took notes, and had the textbook.... yet had no clue what the midterm was. Everyone was shocked at how hard it was. Idk everyone was struggling at the end. I guess if you take him, study harder than normal for it??

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Worst professor to have during a pandemic. Incredibly disorganized and rambles about nothing in particular. Will cover the same, disjointed topics in every class. I feel like half the time he doesn't know what's going on? I'm really bummed because I was looking forward to this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great Prof! I would take him again, regardless of the heavy courseload.