Reviews of professor John Felkner

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Felkner was a good Professor but was a bit flakey and non-communicative. I learned a lot in this class and dont regret taking it but things were left unclear fairly often and class was cancelled many times. The group project case studies were very enjoyable. It just feels like he doesnt focus on teaching as a priority at times.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is very scatterbrained. Missed multiple planned individual meetings with students and posted a lot of the discussion boards/reading response prompts the day before they were due. He is nice but not very well put together, things were always missing in canvas and he was very last minute with things.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Was extremely rude to me while presenting my section of a group project, and was rude to several other students during their presentations. Changed syllabus and assignment instructions/expectations several times. Never gave a grade higher than a 95% on any major assignment. Hasn't actually taught anything since the first week. Excessive workload

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
i loved john, he gets off topic a lot but his stories are engaging and partially relate to the class so it still works. the work is easy enough and the group case studies are genuinely fun. had him in valencia and he took us on lots of ill-planned but fun excursions, ask him about the french woman he went a date with at or his time in swtizerland:)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr Felkner is engaging and knowledgable but he gets distracted pretty easily. Individual meetings with him are VERY helpful. Discussion boards every day of class graded by completion and a group project, pretty easy stuff. Highly recommend if you're interested in planning, public policy, or NGOs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Aside from literally not teaching, he is just genuinely a rude person. Unclear grading criteria, instructions, class structure, & everything. Consistently changed assignment requirements whenever. Will not give anything higher than a 95. Excessive amount of work outside of class, which makes sense given we never did anything of use in class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Solid Professor, great guy, loves what he does. For future planning professionals, i would highly recommend taking his courses(Two thumbs up). There will be a heavy amount of reading and group work; not the most difficult but very time-consuming. That said, if you make the effort to do well in his class, he will reciprocate.