Reviews of professor Michael Eisenstadt

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The hardest thing about this class is the exams which are mainly based on the readings he assigns. His lectures get pretty boring. It's a passable class but not an easy A.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a great guy, love the way he carries himself & organizes his lectures. He explains topics well, but can drag lectures long w/ an excessive amount of memes (it's funny, but you can lose track of what's going on).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Don't take this class! There is a 7 hour service learning assignment worth 10% of your grade, and it had me sitting on campus doing absolutely nothing the entire time from 3-10PM. Horrible waste of time and money. The lectures don't sync well with the activity days and it feels like 2 different classes. We never talked about the readings.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There were a few "required" readings but the content only shows up in a couple of exam questions. All exams are take-home, open-note tests with access to the lecture material on Canvas. The activity section requires a speech and two debates that are graded generously so just prepare adequately and you'll be fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The readings are dense & many of the test questions are ambiguous. I found myself nodding off in this class. Activity portion consists of watching classmates debate about the same topic for 10 weeks, very tedious & dull. Imo, he did not teach us how to debate in a structured manner. His organization of the lecture & activity seemed careless.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Taking the devil would be better than taking this man. He's terrible during lectures and gets a kick out of dehumanizing students for his own ego. There was a service hour we had to do in which he left us for several hours without food and once we started begging to get food he begrudgingly let us go get some. His test were nothing like his slides.