Reviews of professor Neil Thorpe

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had professor Neil this past summer semester for my online class. You have to be ready to turn in 3 designs per week plus be ready to become best friends with youtube. A lot of the links he shares and documents that part of his lectures or modules for his class are very old like 5 plus years old. He also takes a long time to grade, not helpful.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Thorpe is a good professor. The class is hard and it's mandatory for PR majors but if you actually take a look at the resources he provides (plus doing some of your own digging), you should be completely fine. He was very kind about late work and gave good feedback on my assignments. If you put in a decent amount of effort, you can get an A.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Thorpe assigns a textbook but we have not used it once, save your money and purchase a monthly subscription to Adboe softwares - all assignments require photoshop, illustrator or Indesign. Tough class for beginners like me, sometimes he posts tutorials but YouTube will be your best ally.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I took the class online for a credit. Although the class is supposed to teach the adobe suite, he doesn't seem to know much about what he is teaching. Makes you get a book that you won't use or need. Overall pretty easy class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Make sure you pay attention in the class. The assignments are not hard just time consuming. Plan ahead for this course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
For the whole class, you have to pay and use adobe. Adobe is not easy to use without help and he does not provide clear instructions. I think he assumes we basically know what he is talking about. There is so much confusion in his class with no guidance

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's okay, you have 3 quizzes but a bunch of assignments and you have to pay for adobe, FIU doesn't cover it. Grading feedback was meh, and his instructions weren't really clear. Hard to get him to email back.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Is not very specific with his instructions, kinda hard to know what you're doing sometimes. Takes forever to grade, but is easy on you and gives lots of feedback.