Reviews of professor Jose Rodriguez

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Terrible with explanations on many different topics. Often does not get to finish teaching the lecture due to the inability to properly form an explanation that makes sense. Provides little to no reason as to why you would take the steps shown in the book (the only thing he actually teaches).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures are awful; he reads his already textbook copy pasted lecture slides word for word, and confuses himself. He spends 60% of lecture time on class discussion (useless, doesn't happen), or "convincing yourself the answer is right." Course and exams were straightforward at least. Avoid this guy, unless you want to completely teach yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Since it was online all semester he had recorded video lectures that he posted that did absolutely nothing to advance my knowledge in calculus. The videos were like an average of 10 minutes where he read right off of the slides. With no background in calculus you might has a hard time in this class. I had to use youtube a lot to help me.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took calculus ab in high school. After watching professor rodriguez's lectures, I felt like I understood less about calculus than I had before. His lectures are just powerpoints with unnecessarily complicated definitions and descriptions of simple concepts. He spends 15 minutes reading the words straight from the slides.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
So this was my first semester in university and I had high expectations, I thought that professors would enlighten me and explain matters as hard as they could. However, this was not the matter with Jose, the explanations are vague and shallow. It is very difficult to understand. If you have no background in calc you will find him very challenging

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was in Jose's MATH 341 this summer. Honestly, if it wasn't for this class, I probably would have not decided to switch my major from Stat to Math. Linear Algebra is the foundation for any upper-level math courses, and Jose's flipped classroom structure forced me to preview/review materials. It was challenging but very rewarding.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Jose is a subpar professor if I'm going to be honest. Aside from his god-awful lectures, he's doesn't really put any real effort into making the class interesting. He just aimlessly goes through lectures, without really giving useful examples. There needs to be more emphasis on how the material cane be applied which he fails at incredibly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I was really down on him at first; he had a tendency to tell us that we had no time for questions in lecture. About halfway through the semester, though, he became receptive to them and provided quality answers. Professor Rodriguez is not particularly charismatic, but he does teach you what you need to know.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He basically read out of the book in a power point and never expanded on anything. Do not pick him unless you have taken Calc before!!!