Reviews of professor James Thetford

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Thetford reads quickly off the slides, does not delve into detail, and insists on finishing a chapter in 35 minutes for an hour and fifteen minute class and then doesn't answer student questions. His tests are frequent and contain a significant amount of material not covered in class. He doesn't teach, he simply reads a few bullet points.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Thetford has some pretty cool stories and is overall interesting to listen to when he gets off topic. He seems to care very little about the actually information he is teaching. The wording in his exams are not the best. Everything is from McGraw Hill so pretty much you will be teaching yourself. He curves every exam.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Thetford's commercial banking class was insightful and interesting as he brought his own personal knowledge and experience into the classroom to add to the lectures. All of the grades were based on 4 exams and he reads off of the textbook slides, but adds insight to them. Very helpful, and nice as he bumped my grade when I was close.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Thetford worked in the banking industry for decades and this is his retirement job. He's really smart and he knows his stuff but teaching obviously isn't what he was made for. He uses slide packs from the textbook company (which we all know is trash) and just gives you teachers notes to study for the exam. Grade is all based on tests

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great man. Makes a boring topic interesting without sounding cavalier. Would recommend taking him as much as possible.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Thetford has real life experience that he incorporates in each lecture. Reads of the slides and gives you highlighted notes before the exam & reads off test questions during the review session. Difficult material but questions are pretty straightforward and it isn't difficult to do well

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do. Not. Take. Him. This man said on the FIRST day of class that he believes you have to teach yourself in the real world, so in this class, you will have to teach yourself. He didn't lie. The short 20-30 min lectures are nice at first until it's exam time and you don't know what to study or what the chapters are about.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Thetford is an amazing guy. He really wants his students to do well inside and outside of the classroom and incorporates interesting life stories into the subject. Exams are pretty tough but if you put in effort and time, youll do fine.