Reviews of professor Russell Lawson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Lawson has daily quizzes and his quizzes cover a whole chapter. His syllabus looks like he is willing to work with you if you miss a class, but he does not let you make up a quiz if you were out for a medical issue. Another student and I were out for COVID and he did not let us make up any of the quizzes we missed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
There is a quiz every week. Make sure to show up for classes

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I would consider myself a scholarly person and I have never had such a hard time in a class. The lectures, notes, and discussion questions are confusing and hard to follow. There are too little points so you can't remake your grade and if you ask for help, you won't get it. I would never recommend this teacher to another student.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Lawson only gives one 5 question quiz a week and that's it. As long as you take notes and listen in class, it's easy to get a good grade. He's easy to talk to and likes when people talk in class. He gives clear expectations for the midterm and final exams.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor was utterly inflexible for his students and took no care to address their needs for the class. His grading process was so backwards and contradicting that the entire class had no idea what he expected of us. If you attended every day, kept focused and took notes, you still got points off the participation grade. It was impossible.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He doesn't have a set way of doing class, he rambles a lot so you won't know what to write down, if you fail a quiz, the weekly discussion will bring you up if you get full points on it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I respect Professor Lawson, but I'm not too fond of his teaching style. He lectures the whole time you are there, but very little of the material is on the quizzes he passes out every week. If you have a hard time hearing, I recommend sitting close to the front, because he is soft-spoken and he will not speak up if you ask him. Do NOT recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Lawson's teaching style is obnoxious and his class is impossible to achieve a high grade in. I spent 10+ hours a week taking notes, studying, and preparing for tests and quizzes only to recieve average grades with minimal critique. I dropped his class at the midterm point. Save yourself some trouble and time and dont take his class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Class is him just sitting at his desk lecturing in a monotone. There are never any visuals or any interactive things in this class. You are expected to read 1-2 chapters of the textbook each week. Then quizzes are open from class to midnight, then discussions once a week also open from class to midnight. There is no lenience in grading.