Reviews of professor Kenneth Stiles

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I found Mr. Stiles irritating. If you miss a word from his dry lectures, I guarantee that was a major component of the exam. Said exams pulled material from thin air, punishing those who missed the minutest of details from the 20+ readings he assigns per unit. Feel free to take this class if you want to hear him flex his CIA career for hours.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Stiles is a heavy lecturer who grades harshly. If you miss the littlest thing in his lecture, it'll probs be worth 50% of the test and then you do poorly. There's a method to scoring well on his tests, but that means everyone fails the first test, no matter what you do, because he doesn't prepare you at all.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is my 2nd time having him. For Global Conflicts, he was fine. For this class, however, he was awful. In a nutshell, he's a great lecturer, but no good at running a class. His tests were based on the tiniest little useless detail that he might have said during class. His tests and instructions were littered with misspells, typos, errors, etc.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was a bit of a weird one, exam content was sort of pulled from thin air, it's half just random stuff he mentions once and random statistics. But it's still pretty easy, if you do the homework you should get at least like a B+ or A-, and also I've found Stiles to be pretty entertaining, his CIA stuff is cool.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
LOVED this professor! Super SUPER interesting man with lots of great stories to keep you engaged. Definitely pay attention to the LECTURES, PPTs for the tests WILL NOT CUT IT!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I found him kinda pompous and annoying. I took both his CIA class and the Geography of Global Conflict. He spends all class sharing anecdotes of his career and tests you on minute details. The CIA class is more about learning to write ICBLUF than anything else. He reminds me of Alex Jones and is just a right wing wacko with no teaching credentials.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super nice guy, Exams are extremely specific statistics and based on the 2.5 hour lectures which are really hard to stay focused during. There's a ton of readings due every class. Group projects lack structure and instruction.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Perfect Prof literally the best I could've asked for. he is interesting and keeps class engaged. My class was 2.5 hours long and I never felt like I was going to fall asleep, he gives breaks and easy assignments but you still learn a lot.