Reviews of professor Jordan Pickett

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I loved Professor Pickett! He made Roman Culture super interesting and actually inspired me to minor in classical culture. As long as you read before class, it's easy to keep along with lectures. Sometimes, there were in-class summaries over the reading. Grading on papers was easy and the rest was based on participation in one debate.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class as a fun elective, because I had taken Latin in high school, and I absolutely enjoyed Picketts class! All of his lectures were very well organized and entertaining, and all of the assignments were easy to do if you paid attention in class. Added plus was that there were no tests! Would definitely recommend!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Assignments and attendance counted for a lot: assignments will make you go look at ancient-style buildings in Athens. Lectures were always super interesting: Dr Pickett made this class really fun! Take him for credit if you can, but be prepared to do the reading and keep up if you want an A!!! Loved this class!!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
What a fun class! Dr. Pickett is a great lecturer who is more than willing to help his students understand the material. His lectures on Zoom were informational and funny. There's reading before class, but it's only to have a background to what we discuss. Don't be afraid to speak up! He loves when students interact with the lecture!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great and funny professor! He really cares about his students and was very accommodating due to the structure of this semester. If you cant make a lecture he posts all of the zoom recordings on ELC.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
No tests, only quizzes and in class activities

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His finals and midterms are fairly easy to ace, if you use his study guides. Posts notes on eLC so they are accessible outside of class, but will add other things during lecture to note, so don't rely on the powerpoints alone.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pickett is a great professor and is passionate about Roman history. He showed this through his lectures. Your grade is mainly 4 essays that are minimum 5 pages long. Each essay is worth 15% of your grade totaling up to 60% of your grade. He did not have a clear rubric when grading and was vague in his feedback. This class could be boring at times.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Excellent and absolutely brilliant professor. You can tell that he really knows what he's talking about and that he's passionate about it. Lots of reading and writing, but nothing too difficult and nothing unexpected from a classics course. If you can, take him!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really intelligent and funny professor. He's passionate about what he teaches and you can tell straight off the bat. Sometimes he does silly voices for myths that we cover, which makes the somewhat dry content of the class more interesting. Also, he posts everything on elc which is convenient for those who zone out during class (like me).