Reviews of professor Michael Gottsegen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst class I have ever taken in my entire life. His lectures are impossible to follow, and nobody gets anything out of them. Reading assignments are sent out the night before and they are 80+ pages and the class guidelines are nonexistent. Doesn't expect us to read everything but papers and final are SO HARD and specific. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He will email large readings the night before (in some cases at 3 AM) He is incredibly disorganized. Class time is regurgitation of the readings.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Michael is extremely disorganized and the lectures are extremely boring. Class time is spent listening to him go on big tangents about something and I feel like I haven't learned anything in his class. The syllabus is not even correct, so you can't even rely on the syllabus to know what the homework is. Homework consists of very large texts to read

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Michael is nice but his lectures are INCREDIBLY boring. There is barely any discussion in class and he likes to put words in your mouth. He will send out large readings the night before class and expect you to finish them and write a post on an online blog about it. I would not recommend taking his class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had him about a year ago for the class everyone is giving him a hard time about. Personally I thought he was great. While he didnt wasnt a sterotypical type A st olaf prof, his lectures were really quite interesting if you actually listened. Unfortuntaley most of the other students ignored them with their laptops. Great to talk to in OH as well.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This prof. is really nice and teaches well, but he talks in circles and his lectures are pretty boring. His course work is really nice though. It's a good amount of work.