Reviews of professor Joseph Navarro

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Navarro is very caring checking in with his students. If one were to take his class just to keep up with the material he would deduct late points. He is not a tough grader ironic coming from me who has a C but I just caught him. It's easy to bounce back because he works with his students. He's still grading my extra credit so who knows?

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
All of the grading was incredibly fair. There were many assignments where you submit once, receive feedback, and submit again for full credit once you have revised. No busy work. Everything you do in this class is meant to improve skills. Office hours were very useful for clarifying directions for assignments. Just submit work on time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Run! Joseph is just not a good professor for Writing 2, his workload and grading is insane. We can resubmit an assignment multiple times, which seems like a great opportunity for redemption at first. But the grading is so incredibly harsh, to the point where repeated re-submissions are the fundamental requirements of this class. It's crushing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His feedback is extremely robotic, almost sounds like he is AI generating every response and with the same exact sentence every time.

If I am being honest, I am not sure how he became a professor with such a unprofessional attitude and an unwillingness to understand students/

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The workload is completely unmanageable, especially when taking into consideration the workload other students have with different teachers for the same course. Regardless of whether or not you're a good writer, you will be forced to adhere to Navarro's very narrow and formulaic view of "proper academic writing." Do not take his class if you can

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The class is very interesting but instructor can be quite rude sometimes and is quick to make assumptions about his student. Class itself is not too bad but instructor's attitude made me cry multiple times. Instructions for assignments can also be quite unclear.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The class is quite easy but Joseph is less than pleasant to learn from. His bias can be seen in him actively picking on and demonizing students in class whose opinions or point of view differ from his. Don't get me wrong, he gives very constructive and detailed feedback on essays but be prepared to self censor and fake your views to pass with him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Full disclosure is that I have not met anyone more difficult to approach or talk to. His feedback is vague, unspecific, and really just generally unhelpful. Learning how to actually become better at writing is incredibly difficult in this class, as he will grade you on things he never told you beforehand. Don't take his class.