Reviews of professor Michael Gowins

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Gowins is an awesome professor. Very personable and always helpful when you ask questions. Lectures are pretty interactive but he does grade/require participation. Get into his hybrid sections if you can!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Gowins is an exceptional explainer--if you are struggling to understand something, all you need to do is ask a specific question and he will take you through the process of finding an answer. Really helpful, and his lectures are relevant (no fluff) and accessible (posts slides for guidance). He's got loads of experience in the field as well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hybrid asynchronous class and he is always unprepared and doesn't know what is on his slides. Grading system for the exams is unclear and he doesn't prepare students well for the exam format. None of the assignments we do in class are unhelpful for exams and asynch homework. Would not take this professor again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Gives a 1-question passcode protected quiz every class in order to take attendance. He never once responded to my emails. He seems like a nice guy but I didn't like this class. Lots of group work on assignments that feel unnecessary or could have been completed individually. Exams are mostly multiple choice with a few short answer.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Gowins is a nice guy, but there is a good portion of your grade called "student engagement" which requires you to speak regularly in class. Shy people, you'll hate it lol. Also, the things we do in class do not prepare you at all for the exams and the study guides are super long and dense. Not a super hard class, but good for you to know going in.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Gowins makes ISA235 easier for sure. The tests aren't hard and the workload is respectable; however, he doesn't even teach half of the class. The SQL he slaps on slides and expects you to copy it down and act like he had taught class how to use it. The slides he uses with clip art seem 15 years old and half the stuff is just repetitive.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Would love to give Prof. Michael a higher rating but just couldn't. Some of his exam is not consistent with the material w lots of trick questions. I don't see the point in having SQL in this course because he just give us the solutions to submit it. Wish we could do more with Salesforce. When you ask for his help he always reply in the nicest way.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Gowins is a nice enough guy, but his class is formatted horribly. His directions for online projects are vague, and his demonstration of necessary software is inadequate to leave the rest of the work to self-direction. Prepare to teach yourself nearly everything, then show up for a lecture that does little more than waste 80 minutes.