Reviews of professor Benjamin Blackman

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ben is super nice and a great teacher! I think he's still a grad student but his teaching is very good nonetheless. He is also really understanding and cared for his students. Great guy!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Oh Benjamin Blackman, you were so great to your students. Since the course was online, he decided not to make us read books but make us read short stories instead. We did a 200 worded paragraph and a 500 worded short essay a week. Total of two essays and a final assignment that was optional. Really cared about his students during the BLM protests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Blackman was super nice.  There's a lot of writing involved, but he was very helpful during office hours and will help you get your papers on track.  He is also very nice about meeting outside of class and office hours, so if you can't make it to his office hours or just need extra help, he will often arrange a time to talk.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures move fast and way too content/memorization heavy, he's not the best at explaining things so I would have to rewatch/relearn myself, exams were hard and unfair for what we're expected to learn so quickly 
I got a 39% on the midterm no curve ;)))

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Honestly Professor Blackman was very caring towards his students. However; his lectures were quite heavy, which I don't know if that is controllable or not. They were also confusing, I had to rewatch the lectures over and over. The exam was crazy hard too, out of all the sections I studied the most for his, and somehow managed to get the lowest.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
literally such a G. assigned some sci-fi readings on a more grad level, but always was available to help u understand the readings. contract grading- so do the work and put some effort in and you'll be fine. he's pretty cool too and pulled through with covid and all the blm stuff this quarter. id recommend taking his class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Blackman is a very mediocre lecturer and although he is passionate about what he taught, he covered far too much information in each lecture. There was a D average on the midterm for his part of the class, reflecting the issue in his teaching. His slides were far longer than the other two sections in the course as well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Way too much content and he goes over it fast. I skipped most of his lectures on purpose because I was only able to listen, understand, and write down concepts when watching the recordings at a slower speed. He goes over so much and then expects you to remember everything and apply this knowledge to complex application-based exam questions.