Reviews of professor Richard Stark

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Stark is not much of a professor--with minimal feedback and few assignments, 3 small papers make up 70% of your grade and will earn you a B or lower in the class. Stray far away from him if you do not want your GPA tanked by someone who values his opinion of your philosophical argument greater than the actual effort of the student.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't take Stark if you can't argue "philosophical enough" in his opinion. Three tests make up your grade and will knock many, many points off judging by your first sentences. Effort of student never taken into account, especially the amount of an explanation given to prove you know what you're talking about.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Don't take Stark if you intend to do well in Philosophy. For reflective notes (RNs), you either get complete or incomplete. If you do one little thing wrong, automatic incomplete. For critical response essays, you only get 50 minutes, to write 600-800 words, with no prompt until you start the 50 minutes. He gives no partial credit and does not care

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you can write well, this class should be easy! Honestly less than an hour of work per week, minus the three weeks with papers due. He'll grade the papers both for grammar AND content, just so you know, so just pay attention to detail. If you don't want to take this class in person with someone else, this is the way to go!