Reviews of professor Brett Esaki

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Its best to have time management. The exams are like the lecture but the lectures can be very tedious to watch. The papers were fun to do though. Overall the class was a lot of work.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
online course: very homework heavy, had about 3-4 disscussion posts a week and a short paper due every week. Exams were fairy easy and followed the lecture questions almost exactly. Kinda a lot of work for a gen ed, but if you watch the lectures it is an easy A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Esaki was a very respectable, professional, yet personal teacher. He made sure that his students felt heard and instituted a very safe classroom environment. Professor Esaki was a passionate lecturer who encouraged critical thinking. He welcomed student participation/opinions, and I would absolutely recommend his classes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want to have fun with japanese popular culture, don't take this class. Legit ruined my liking of japanese popular culture because there is so much work to do.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hardest gen ed EVER. Lectures were all over the place and made no sense; was not related to test material in the slightest. Tests were impossible and questions phrased badly. Very tough grader with papers, never got higher than an 80% on them and usually always got a 70% even though I spent a good amount of time on them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I put more effort into my Elementary school presentations than this guy does for his lectures. The writing prompts were stupidly vague and I constantly felt like I didn't have enough knowledge to complete them. I can't tell you the amount of times my friend and I looked at each other during lecture like "There's no way this guy has a degree"

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I love Esaki's classes I've taken two so far by him so far. His lectures are interesting and fun. He's incredibly forgiving with due dates. He's well-read in all the topics he reads about it's really impressive, honestly. Anytime I ask him about anything, he has a large knowledge base of it. Love his classes, hes really great

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I don't even know where to start. He's a good guy, although his way of teaching is just so off. I am reading through these reviews realizing people have the exact same issues I'm having, thought I was the only one. You know it's bad when 37% of the class drops it by the deadline. Unless he is your absolute last professor, don't choose him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. The content is difficult, the lectures are an unorganized ramble, the readings each week are extremely long and hard to understand, the test material is difficult and confusing, and the papers are graded harshly. The class average for our midterm was an F, indicating that there is a problem with the teaching of the course.