Reviews of professor Xolela Mangcu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible. Lectured with barely any slides so basically just him talking. You're graded on 4 papers for the whole semester and that's it. The guidelines for the papers are so unbelievably unclear it's insane. Avoid this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof Mangcu knows his stuff, and he's had lots of experience in the field, but this class was a bit chaotic. He is not the best at explaining material and his grading criteria were not clear. Didn't use the textbook at all.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although the prof. is willing to change a few things if majority of the class talks as a whole, communication was lacking. The guidelines he holds for papers are not clear at all and the course was all over the place throughout the semester.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mangcu is an awesome person, but the class is very unorganized. he doesn't stick to the syllabus and the grading is all over the place. the midterm, final, and assignments were all extensive writing projects. overall, if you pay attention to what he says and use that in your papers, you should be fine. he really likes when you participate too

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I taken him in the fall and he's not really flexible like other profs. He grades hard & doesn't give clear instruction on what he's looking for. When you reach out to him for help, he doesn't respond back in good time period. I really did not enjoy his class and do not recommend taking him overall. Avoid him at all cost if you can!