Reviews of professor Derek Westfall

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I can't believe this is a real class. Easiest four credits you'll ever do at PSU.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great to have the freedom to work with a team and learn project management. Regular quizzes from information that is directly from the Project Management book. You apply the things you learn each week to an end goal of a functioning charter that you can execute. All the concepts are things I have used/applied in real-life projects in my profession.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Derek is really the best professor you will ever find. He cares about his students and helps them.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Hands down the easiest professor. Participate, do all assignments, and he'll make sure you pass! Very little stress. Any course with him should be an easy A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Derek is a great teacher and would take his class again. Quizzes and the final are easy and there is one team project. If you have any questions he answers his emails as soon as he sees them.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's one of the newer professors but he is very knowledgable. He seems intimidating, but his class was actually not bad. 4 pop quizzes on powerpoint slides, 2 EASY exams based on the quizzes, and group project with 5 slide presentation at the end of the term. He was very lenient on grading and one of the easier BA339 class. We always got out early

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Derek is great. He only grades off of quizzes, tests, and group project so if you do well on those your grade in the class will reflect it. He pulls all of the test and quiz material off the slides he gives, and he makes those slides interactive with the class and uses real-life examples. He's awesome, his story of getting where he is now is crazy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best professor at PSU

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great class and instructor. Weekly quiz and 2 projects. The group project was the hardest due to time management. Overall easy class and the instructor is always available if you need help, goes out of his way to help!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I'm confused about the positive reviews. There's 0 homework, a handful of quizzes just randomly scattered throughout the term, and they're all easy. His Canvas page is a disaster without deadlines or anything. Modules are duplicated, poorly named, and randomly ordered. A Week 5 lecture may be labeled a week 3 lecture and placed in a week 2 module.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Awesome class but there is SO much reading.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Westfall has interesting and absorbable lectures. One big team project for the term with no option to change teams or work solo. Prof. was aware that my teammates werent participating. The A grade I earned solo he gave to everyone. His goal is to give As, however, the work does need to get done by someone. Do you want to take your chances?