Reviews of professor Barry Toyama

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Make a group of people who actually show up to class. Suffer together. Barry speaks in a monotone voice, which is fitting because the content of this class is soo boring. The tests are online though! Copy the textbook on your computer so you can do "command F" to find the information. There are essays based on in-class speakers, so go to class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Toyama is not nearly as bad as everyone implies - all he asks is that you put in the work for your grade, do that and you'll be fine. He is great about giving feedback and meeting outside of class. His exams aren't easy, but asking you to read the book shouldn't be such a problem.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's ok... You have to teach yourself for the most part. But he responds to emails pretty fast. 2 Discussion posts per week with 4 replies to your classmates. (these require a bit of reading). There are also 2, 2pg papers which arent too bad. My only complaint is the final project. He doesnt give you lots of direction.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lazy prof who gives poor lectures and takes forever to grade. Would not recommend taking his class. Seems like it was his first time teaching though so maybe hes just super inexperienced. Also disorganized and made things up along the way. Lost a couple of my assignments.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
We were delegated into groups the first day of class and almost every day he expects us to come together with that group for very poorly explained discussions and assignments. This is very strange for a lecture style class. His powerpoints have no information on them and often his tangents do not seem like important info. Also quiet, cant hear him