Reviews of professor Andrew Owens

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Doc Owens is a fun instructor. He clearly cares about his subject and his students. A lot of what he says is just repetition of the slides, but that's ok. I disagree with people criticizing the lack of content warnings. The films we watched were largely tame, and if you're concerned, you can look up the film beforehand like an adult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Owens is a great teacher who is clearly very passionate about his area of teaching and knowledgable in it.  The readings he assigns are useful and contain information that he goes over in lecture.  His lectures are simple and easy to follow along to, and he does a great job in explaining topics/ideas that are unclear to students.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you think this is going to be an easy gen-ed it's not. There are pop-quizzes that are very specific in the detail and the majority of your grade. If you don't show up to class or screening will not pass! Material interesting, but it is a lot that is expected, so probably not worth it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really liked him, and he had a sense of humor. Beware: there are no content warnings in this course. Many of the films we watched had graphic sex scenes that would last up to twenty minutes, along with questionable elements like blackface. The movies themselves are good, but exhausting to process every week at the required late-night screenings.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Owens is a good professor. He clearly loves what he teaches and he's super into whats new in social culture and how it related to the cinema world. Everything on the quizzes is in the lectures. Super easy as long as you show up. He is funny and emphatic but uses lots of vulgar language. He definitely is trying to advance his beliefs onto you

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Owens was great! He's very funny, loves engaging with students, and clearly appreciates what he's teaching. He's lecture heavy, but they're easy to follow and are condensed versions of the readings. Notes will 100% come in handy for quizzes/tests, which has questions taken verbatim from the lectures. Only real homework is watching movies.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took this class as a gen ed and had so much fun. Both Professor Owens and the TA for the semester made the class very enjoyable. I appreciated how he didn't shy away from how the history of movies had issues with race, gender, class, or views of other countries. All of the movies were pretty good and I had so much fun.