Reviews of professor Ari Feld

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ari is an amazing professor. He is so kind and cares about your success in the course. He gives great feedback on rough draft papers and all of the assignments are useful for bettering your writing. I encourage anyone who has the chance to have him as a professor to take his courses.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Ari uses contract grading, which I strongly dislike. This is my main gripe about the class, but the structure of the course was also unexpected. It didn't go over what I thought it would, with a bunch of strange assignments that didn't ever seem to improve my writing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really like Ari as a person! His class has 3 papers and many mini assignments that prepare you to write the paper. He is a bit of a tough grader but overall the class is not stressful by any means. He likes to interact with the class and encourages group discussion. This class will make you a better writer and you'll learn.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tries too hard to be "cool and young" it comes off weird. Uses contract grading which defeats the purpose of the class. He makes attendance necessary if you want a good grade. If you ask him questions he comes off condescending. He asks for opinions on the class, but when given constructive criticisms, he gets defensive and often belittles them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ari uses contract grading which is not helpful at all. Even if I did an assignment to the best of my ability he would mark it as incomplete if there was a tiny mistake. He tries way too hard to be "woke" and cool and it's annoying. He is also very passive aggressive when asking for help, which made me feel stupid for even asking a simple question.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I liked him as a person but he can be kinda passive aggressive when helping you correct your essays. Attendance is basically mandatory cause he has you do reflections on your attendance and why you missed. I followed all of his rubrics for essays and still was hard to get anything past a 80/100. Overall hes a nice guy but hard to do well in class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ari is a great professor. He clearly loves his job, and fills the room with energy every day in class. He is glad to help whenever he can, and leaves helpful constructive feedback on papers. As long as you keep up on your assignments and don't procrastinate too much, it should be smooth sailing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ari was definitely not my favorite teacher I've ever had. He was an extremely tough teacher and looked down on students who didn't seem to write as well as others. I felt stupid asking questions in class because it always seemed like he was judging me.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Ari is awesome! He used contract grading which is super useful because for anything and everything in class, you aren't being graded for quality, but getting a "complete" and following the necessary criteria to get a complete. He does take attendance, and you only have a couple unexcused abcenses, especially if you contract for an A.