Reviews of professor Michael Gillespie

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had Professor Gillespie for CF-1 and 2. Although his lecture style was a bit boring, his classes are easy to get an A in. The grade is based on three papers, a midterm, a final, and participation. If you do all the readings on time then you will get A's on all the essays. The midterm and final are sketchy since he doesn't give study guides.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Hi. I would just like to say that anyone reading this should never set foot in this man's online class. I have nothing to say because he simply did not do Zoom classes. Asynchronous learning was taken to another level with this prof. This means: weekly excessively long forums, slow teaching, bad organisation of documents and readings, boring class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While I think he's a really nice, caring, and sweet guy, I did not like the whole asynchronous thing that we had to do. It would lead us to do essentially 3-4 hours of homework every week, including three essays sprinkled in between, in addition to a mid-term and final. Asynchronous classrooms also take a lot of time to adjust to, personally.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I enjoyed taking Professor Gillespie's class. He's very knowledgeable and wants you to do well. Doing the assigned readings is important b/c class is participation heavy. Final grade is based on 3 essays, midterm+final and participation. He's an easy grader. Make sure to jot down what everything he writes on the board! It'll def be on the tests.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took him for the Art of Black film. Watch the movies and you'll be fine. you dont watch the movies during class time, you have to do it on your own. Term paper is the only thing you're graded on for the semester but he might give extra credit assignments. Hard grader with the term paper but gives you time to revise before final grades are due.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good luck to anyone stuck with this awful class and professor. Professor Gillespie's teaching style is about as stale and lackluster as it can get. He forces people to answer his vague and non-stimulating questions even though half the class is either asleep or mindlessly surfing the web. I will never step foot in another class taught by him.