Reviews of professor Brian Dewey

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dewey is a heavy lecturer. He assigns a lot of readings that there is not a lot of time to prepare the reading for. He provides study guides for tests and quizzes, but there were pop quizzes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I am surprised by some of the poor feedback here. Yes, he lectures a fair bit of the class time but he tries very hard to elicit participation. Sure he gives papers. Its college. They are all short (2-3 pages, barely time to develop an idea) and you are given a lot of freedom in choosing a topic. There are unlimited chances for extra credit.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He gives lots of papers, lectures ALL CLASS, will threaten to give pop quizzes if you don't do the mandatory readings and participate when he asks questions, quizzes are hard because he gives them at the end of lectures. he also doesn't post the notes online until after the lecture, so you cant print them out or read them ahead of time.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Let me start by saying I am not the best student, but I wanted to attend Deweys class. When I read the RMP ratings beginning the semester, I was scared of how he would be. The ratings are a complete lie. He clearly states everything you need to do and prepare for and makes it easy for a student like myself to succeed. Dont drop the class, trust me.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures last the entire class and are very hard to follow. Notes were often unclear and useless when it came to writing papers, which he graded harshly. Gives 5 question quizzes and threatened to give pop quizzes. Assigned reading was often 20+ pages. I considered dropping it many times!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While being a philosophy professor, also teaches English, so your papers on being graded very harshly, very boring, and overcall the class make you not want to go