Reviews of professor Dr. James Shockey

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lots of reading required. He often gets off topic lecturing, which leaves massive amounts of content uncovered. Be prepared to practice patience, he grades slow. Most assignment are busy work, but he grades tough. He rarely provides rubrics. His feedback is unclear. He is known to not email you back. He is caring and sweet.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Shockey is very passionate which makes this class more enjoyable, and the main grade system for this class is clicker quizzes which are typically 2-3 times a week. Sometimes gets exam re dos and it very easy to work with.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very, very reading dependent. Skimming the textbook won't help you on any of the pop-quizzes he tends to do. Goes on SO many tangents, none of which are related to the material. Much better suited to teach longer classes. Fascinating teacher though and passionate about the subject. Gives vague feedback on written assignments, if he gives any at all

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
BASV314 is basically an intro stats class and Dr. Shockey is a sociology professor. While the two are correlated (heh), one doesn't beget the other. Dr S is a good guy and does his best to help out but he lacks solid feedback on assignments (generally a few words to a sentence) and the material didn't prepare well with the assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really nice person. He loves sociology and you can tell, he knows what he is talking about. He includes a lot of videos in class and posts all the notes on d2l. Very understanding person who genuinely wants to see his students succeed.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Cares about the subject and students, but tests are poorly written. Half the questions are random quotes from the book that arent relevant to the class, so theres no shot of remembering them on test day (but test retakes helped). Most of the time I did the attendance quiz from home and took notes from the powerpoint, and I still learned a lot.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very passionate, make sure to take notes on the slides. Go to class in case of a quiz for extra points.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The only reason I got a B is because he lets you retake the exams. He does not prepare you for exams and its a lot of work for a lower division class. Hard to focus in class because he randomly starts talking about other things. Cool guy though.