Reviews of professor Richard Murphy

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed taking Prof Murphy's class. He does have you read and write a lot, but the class discussion and content are very interesting. He is clearly a well-educated individual and cares a lot about his students' success. If you want to actually learn, and have your thoughts be challenged then I highly recommend.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Rich is a great professor. He is very intelligent. The discussions we had in class were interesting and thought provoking. The books we read were a bit boring and hard to get through, but they were also very meaningful. We wrote 3 papers in a semester which honestly was not bad at all. I would take his course again for sure.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
had him for tmw and taking him again for literary traditions! he definitely has a tendency to popcorn call on people, so you have to either be really good at keeping up with work or really good at faking it, but honestly either way he sort of speaks in riddles. honestly as long as you can write academically you should be fine

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a great professor, super easy to talk to and reach out through email. He's very funny and not cold towards his students, encourages participation and accommodating. His assignments are very interesting and the essays are personable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Had him for tmw he is probably worst grader I have ever seen. Not only would he give bad grades for decent papers he would also not give normal feedback. He would give one sentence feedback that would not match the grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although Prof Murphy is extremely intelligent and a nice person, he was insanely hard to get a hold of, and was not receptive to my emails for help as I struggled greatly in an online environment with no structure. He was extremely unclear on what essays should contain, and what he is looking for.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Rich is an extremely smart professor who wants students to succeed. I found it difficult to be in an online class where there wasn't much structure in his classes. Get ready to write a lot of papers and be assigned long readings that don't seems to relate relate very much to one another.