Reviews of professor Derik Smith

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is fantastic. Super smart, funny, chill guy. He puts a lot of effort into planning classes and assigns great readings. Not the best at facilitating discussions and keeping people engaged, but you can learn a lot from him and sometimes discussions are good. He assigns a ton of reading, but you can get by without doing it all. Not much other work.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Smith is a nice guy. There is a good amount of reading in the class. The whole class is discussion based so if you do not read it can be difficult to stay engaged. He grades relatively harshly on the essays but if you talk to him he is super helpful. Overall great dude but you will need to put in effort to get an A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a super nice guy and his class is engaging and informative.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
easy hw & good discussions, but wasn't always clear abt what he wants. 3 essays throughout the semester that are graded relatively harshly. i always made sure to follow his instructions on the syllabus so i did fine, but the class averages displayed on sakai stayed in the B/B+ range for each assignment. hard to tell what your final grade will be

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Favorite professor I've had in a long time. His FWS is the best one by far and so interesting. The majority of the homework is just to watch movies!