Reviews of professor Douglas Swanson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a nightmare to deal with. I didn't even have him as my lab instructor, he is the lab coordinator, and he takes forever to respond to emails, grades incorrectly and doesn't fix it, and needed constant reminders for assignments and materials to be posted before they were do. Horrible professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doug is a very nice guy and easy to approach with questions, but get ready to ask A LOT of questions. He is very knowledgable in the subject which makes teaching a low-level class difficult for students to understand. If you ask questions you can usually get a clear answer.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Swanson doesn't do a great job of explaining material. He just reads the slides that are already on BlackBoard, and he answers questions vaguely. The lectures are boring. In every class, he'll say that the material is easy or that we should already understand. This is frustrating when you're learning a new concept.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Swanson is such a smart man, but teaching a 100- level course was maybe not the right fit. He liked to think we always knew what we were doing, and was very vague on topics. He would rarely go through problems in depth. I struggled hard in this course, just take advantage of SI because it helps. He is a nice man, but this course was frustrating:(