Reviews of professor Ryan Siemers

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He gives full points for homework if you do it. The only thing to be wary of is that his midterm and final are a huge portion of the grade. There's an essay, which is pretty standard, but in the written section, he docks you if you don't pull exactly what he wants from the text, and his definitions don't match what he says in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ryan was awesome. He teaches you through a simple program with an easy 5-step study plan and a quiz that you can take twice. he also has you submit fairly simple assignments like a replica email that you would send to your company with correct formatting. He is just picky about grammar and such, but given he is an English teacher.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Siemers is obviously very knowledgeable, but almost to a fault. He'll bulldoze student's interpretations in favor of his own. If you're even slightly late in an assignment, he'll dock your grade. He obviously is very passionate about British Literature, but he seems almost uncomfortable in validating student's input and ideas of a text.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed his class very much, he was entertaining. If you actually talk to him you get to know him. Hes pretty flexible with test dates if you cant make it to class and hes thorough in his reviews for tests.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Try not to miss class, because 1) attendance is graded; 2) the few notes you take will be essential to know on the midterm and final. He typically mentions the terms once in class and on the review for the midterm and final. Very helpful during office hours. Go to his office hours for feedback, you will get As on your essays if you do.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Siemers is by far one of the greatest Professors I've ever had. Professor Siemers helps me understand concepts and difficult topics and makes them easy for me to understand and comprehend. While at the same time teaching me new and important things so that I can grow and become better! The BEST professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Often the prompts for questions on tests are obscure passing comments he made in class, making them difficult to correctly identify regardless of knowledge of the material. He tests students on what the answer is in his mind neglecting to make the information on the test consistent with what he says during lecture.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was hard. There was a lot of homework and quizzes and the homework took a long time to do. If youre not savvy in the business world then you may want to take a starting class before this one. He cares about his students but he is a tough grader and he will clearly tell you what you did wrong. Just dont fall behind on the homework.