Reviews of professor Randall Souza

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is very heavy on participation with little help/input from him. He expects students to teach each other and offers little insight. If you start to miss classes he will reach out. He is often available to meet but the work is reliant on you to do his very dense assigned readings. I would not have willingly taken him as a first-year.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Souza is a great professor, he truly cares about his students. Responds quickly to emails and encourages participation in class, especially to those that don't normally talk. Small reading and discussion post before each class but really easy to get extra credit.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
By far the worst part of this course is that he will expect you to read an entire textbook on a topic that is very much not interesting and then have the students carry a discussion about it for the entire class period.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Souza is a new professor, so while I'd like to give him some slack, his teaching was mediocre at best. Way too much time spent on pointless reading that is never used in assignments. He's definitely passionate about history and archaeology but fails to truly engage his students in either topic. Less talk and more engagement and he'd be great.