Reviews of professor Robert Ballingall

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While many of the other reviews are right (Ballingall is a harsh reader and material can often be difficult) he is a great guy and can be a good professor if you dedicate yourself to his class. Reach out, attend office hours, and do the work and you'll be ok. You can get an A if you work for it. Overall enjoyed his class and him as a person.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Tests are very difficult, lots of reading too

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ballingall is an alright professor, but his lectures are kind of boring and he tends to talk really slow. There are reading questions due every week, but he goes over them in his lectures to make sure that you get the correct answers. He tends to overcomplicate things and I think he is the definition of a typical political philosophy professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The level of work to just barely get an A- is exceptional. Every week there is assigned reading, 40 or so pages. You must also submit a detailed summary. I was averaging 7-9 hours of work a week. That is only a small percentage of the grade, and the exams are weighted heavily and he never gives you full credit on a question, always a 9/10.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The amount of reading was insane, definitely attend the pre-test session or you won't do well. Also when you get feedback you will probably get feedback longer than what you wrote and it won't be too helpful. However, I did appreciate the exposure to new and interesting texts I got, there was just so many that it was easy to get overwhelmed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Even if you do the readings you're left blatantly confused during the lectures. He overcomplicates things and words his tests in ways that make it harder to succeed. I studied for nearly 4 days on top of rereading the readings and didn't do well on the exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I hated this class sorry man

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Get ready to read. Lectures are boring, long, and he talks very fast. I struggled on the prelim exams, but you can make up for that with the weekly 300-400 reading reports. He is trying very hard to become tender at the university. Asserts intelligence, and sometimes makes it clear how "smart" he is when a student gets a question wrong.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor's makes his lectures overly complex and hard to understand. I leave every classroom with learning nothing. Each exam is worded poorly, making the test difficult for no reason. The class is also graded on participation. No one participates though because no one understands what the professor is saying.