Reviews of professor Shawn Simonson

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr.Simonson was such a reliable professor that cares about his students and their success in the class but also in your future career. He is very understanding of technological difficulties and is such a great person.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Simonson relies heavily on group assignments to get through lectures. Doesn't teach, instead requires you to read the textbook. Lots of papers and quizzes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Overall, I had a good experience with Dr. S. If I couldn't make a due date he would always extend it. Lectures were pointless and there was a lot of random busy work that did not correlate with the class. Get ready to write a ton... do NOT PROCRASTINATE papers! Just get it done.. also expect to spend all of your time doing work for this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Claims he uses group work as a tool for teaching, and expects you to learn a senior level class from other students who aren't paid to teach. Pointless lectures with dumb group work assignments that don't teach or benefit the student at all. Big semester long project that doesn't get the over all expectation or an explanation that it should.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not try to understand the grading structure. It's super arbitrary and there is so much busy work. Dr. S. says he cares about students, but between lab, lecture, and service learning, you typically have 4 or more things due per week. This class was overwhelming and so much work. I have a 3.6 GPA and I'm getting a C...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was absolutely ridiculous. Simonson has no regard to students lives outside of his class, doesn't give good guidance on the conditioning program (but grades it as if you have written multitudes of them), assigns loads of busy work, and is just not a good professor. Class was a waste of time and he does not care about his students.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He does not teach. Tests are over the readings but his tests often have answers that are different than the books and you are just suppose to know. The final paper is majority of your grade but it is peer graded so just hope someone nice grades your paper. Do not ask questions because he will make you feel dumb for asking. TONS of busy work.