Reviews of professor Brook Alemu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
My least favorite class. She quotes 3 hours to do weekly research papers; in reality it's at least double that. Her grading methods seem arbitrary; will deduct points for not citing things that are in your own words, then turns around and deducts for using too many citations. By far my most time consuming class. Would not take again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is very passionate about his class, and gives very good feedback with discussion posts. Discussion posts do take more effort, because he requires additional sources, but are not too bad. Only has a final paper at the end- 5 pages. Quizzes and discussion posts.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do the assignments and you will do fine. He explains the material well and always opens the class for discussion and questions. As a hybrid course, there are recorded lectures. He then goes over the same material in class, but it's to make sure you understand the material. It can be repetitive, but some of the material is dense, so it helps.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
People would fall asleep in class. Provides a 50-minute lecture video with a quiz outside of class but goes back over the same lecture in class, which makes this class really boring when you already took notes on the lecture. Would be better if the class was used for practice.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do the work and you will do fine

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Alemu expects a lot with discussion posts and know how to use APA citations, but overall if you put in the work you'll get an A. He is a fair grader, if you follow his instructions and put the time in with thoughtful discussion posts you'll be good. He is very understanding when things come up too