Reviews of professor Steven Cohen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst professor. Johns Hopkins needs to remove him. You can go to all his extended office hours, participate in every class, confirm instructions/grading with him, and do everything right, even going above and beyond on every group project, but he will still give you an 80, simply bc he "doesn't give A's." This is a Business Communications class...

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you want to become a better communicator, take Dr. Cohens's course. He genuinely cares about the success and improvement of his students and goes the extra step to make sure you are successful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very frustrating experience. If you get uniformly good feedback, you get a 22/25. If you get uniformly bad feedback, you get a 20/25. On EVERY assignment. Verified this with 5-6 other students in the class. Feedback seems untethered to the score you receive. Content/learning is most important, but grades matter too, dude. My only B at Carey :(

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
To put it mildly, this class was painful. It was a series of exercises in let's have you create something that I am going to then nitpick to death and redline like an editor going through a manuscript. Projects weren't done to demonstrate comprehension, they were more driven by fear. It didn't feel like learning, it felt like picking favorites.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cohen made the class unnecessarily pretentious. He & TA gave confusing/contradictory feedback, saying our work was "excellent & strong", but also "needs improvement or needs to be soft" & vice versa. He was also rude & disrespectful, saying his class is to "make the boss look good", insinuating that none of us can be or are the boss ourselves.