Reviews of professor Joshua Brinkman

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Caring professor who gives detailed feedback on all assignments and is relatively quick to respond to emails and texts. There was a participation grade, which I didn't enjoy, but as long as you give *any* sort of input, you should have no worries! My biggest issue is that he speeds through his lecture slides and doesn't post them until after class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
GREAT teacher. The ONLY critique I have is that he goes through his slides at lightning speed and then doesn't post them on canvas. It's almost impossible to write down all of the bullets on the presentation. Textbook readings are time-consuming but crucial to your success in the class, especially because tests are open book so take good notes!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you are looking to take 1116 as a pathway, DON'T. This class requires too much work from the student, especially as an online course. I put hours of effort, studying, and reading into this course and I had a C- by the 4th week. This class required double the work load over my ochem, biology, and physics. Professor graded harshly as well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I did enjoy his class, and he's always accessible; he even gives out his phone number, so you can text him, but there's a participation grade, which is not everyone's cup of tea. There's a lot of supplementary material that is required, but most of it is very interesting. Tests were online and open note, also graded by homeworks and quizzes.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Brinkman's lectures have been highly complementary to the course's textbook material. Instead of merely paraphrasing the text, he places emphasis the conceptual aspects as well. Although he goes fast, his lectures are easy to comprehend and I come away from each of them knowing at least a full chapter of material. Grading is fair