Reviews of professor Kristin Primus

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I learned so much this semester!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Primus is thoughtful, precise, and extremely helpful. I came away with a much clearer picture of how and why to study the history of philosophy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took 25b a few years back. I've decided to rate her now because over the last few years, I've really come to appreciate how much I learned from her class!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Primus is such a sweet and understanding person. She's very soft-spoken and if you're not careful you could fall asleep. Philosophy 25B is difficult if you're not interested in it!! Her class consists of 4 essays and discussion attendance points.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Brilliant professor. My advice: follow her instructions to do the reading before you go to lectureshe is not going to spoon-feed anything to you. She wants you to learn how to think for yourself.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Primus is amazing. Loved this class!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
way too many topics. Two papers, a midterm and a final - both very difficult. lecture does not help much with understanding materials. The material on Kant covered in this class equates what I learned in Philos 178 which is a course solely on Kant. The content that took three papers to explain in Philos 178 shows up as a prompt for the final.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Primus is extremely smart and kind, but her lectures were really hard to follow. I often left them so confused and relied heavily on my GSI to tell me what I should have learned from each lecture. People stopped attending lecture all together and my GSI could tell that most people had just given up on the class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Your grade is 3 reconstruction + analysis papers & section participation. Don't need to do the reading or go to lecture - your papers are on a specific reading, and lectures are boring and go through the exact slides which are posted. Go to office hours for your paper and follow the structure and you can do well. The material itself is difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Primus is an amazing professor who goes above and beyond for her students. Yes, there's a whole lotta reading but she and the GSIs break it down well enough to actually grasp. Don't fall behind on the readings, don't start your papers late, and if you aren't going to go to lecture make sure you go to office hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Seemed like a very nice person. Lectured pretty well with text-heavy slides and fun memes interspersed. Lectures were pretty boring however and I zoned out most lectures. Heavy on the required readings. Mostly only needed to know the one or two readings that essay prompts were based on. Had a harsh GSI but Primus doesn't seem like a tough grader.