Reviews of professor Scott Ritner

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is the worst.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Avoid taking him.. He grades the assignments late and leaves us with no feedback!! Aaaand he is full of himself.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Ritner is a new PHD recipient, and quite sympathetic to his students, and he is a smart well informed man. In my class of 130 people he knew all of our names and responded to my emails within the hour. He grades harshly but fairly, but offers extra credit, He is an understanding man who cares about you and will do what he can to help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Ritner was my Foreign Governments professor and I loved his lectures. I learned so much when I took his class and he is very good at explaining things. He always has office hours open for students which is nice. He grades reasonably and gives you extra credit at the end of the class. TAKE HIM!!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ritner's class was very lecture heavy, and almost the entire grade was based on 3 papers and a take-home final exam. I wish that he would have taught Foreign Governments more like a comparative politics class and less like a political theory class, but otherwise, the experience was decent enough.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the best professors I've had at Temple! He is super interesting which makes you want to go to class even though its not mandatory. Probably the kindest professor ever. I took this class last Spring and he was the only professor who was understandable of COVID and helped us A LOT. I cant wait to take research prep course with him again!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a really smart and cool guy but the entire class was just a giant lecture and we never did any of the discussion stuff he talked about at the start of the year. He's funny and threw out a bunch of cool extra credit but he expects you to read a lot and I mean a lot. You never really understand what he's looking for because the prompts are vague

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Ritner is probably the most caring and understanding professor you'll have. His lectures are interesting and really make you think about the subject matter. Lots of reading but it's genuinely interesting. My class was only 11 people so participation was important, but he never calls people out. Super cool guy, very into communism, will tell you why

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Ritner is 100/100. He is incredibly caring and takes care of his students' mental health. Work was accepted any time, and always for full credit as long as you actually did it. Assigned readings were long at times, but usually the (really interesting) lectures covered it. He's so chill. Take him if you get the chance! I promise you won't regret it!