Reviews of professor Jacob Dorman

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There is a lot of criticisms I can give Prof. Dormans CH 203 but due to character limits I will reserve myself. Key points are: a confusing canvas page, poorly explained and thought out exams, sassed back at students when possible concerns of exams were presented, and begged his students for a good ratemyprofessor review via canvas announcement.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Assigns way too many bulk reading assignments on a weekly basis. Lot of readings that you don't read, just write random comments to make points. TAs in the class is the only reason I didn't drop this 2nd week in. He is a really good person and has the potential for a great lecturer/professor, But his style of homework and grading needs to be fixed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He was very political during lectures and extremely rude to students . I'm disabled and needed a laptop to take notes and he didn't allow me to because my reason "wasn't good enough." I once asked for the slides during a school-excused absence, and he insulted me and never sent them. He should be fired and is the worst prof I've ever had. No joke.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You can tell this professor really cares about the content he is teaching. Overall, not a bad class, however there are weekly readings that become a lot sometimes as you have to make a notecard for every reading assignment. I liked my discussion class, and lecture was easy to follow.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This was the best professor I ever had. So kind and understanding. Did assign a bit of work, but all around great class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Teacher was amazing. He is passionate in his lectures and keeps students engaged. He does give essay based tests but allows notecards. He also give an essay at the beginning of the semester that was due at the end of the semester which was nice. He gives on 6 page term essay which is alright because he allows us to choose a broad topic to write.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took his class during the pandemic. He preferred not to do zoom meetings so instead, you get 1-2 hour lecture videos that build up with the amount of work you have to do. Each week you have to do 6 readings that vary from 3-10 pages and do a paper that is due on Wednesdays. Also while having to work on a paper throughout the course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If youre looking for big ammount of work for a small reward this is the class for you, this professor assigns 9 readings a week, each reading averages to aboutt 20-25 pages per reading. He assigned us 4 readings due the sunday before we came back from spring break. Also failed everyone when a student cheated on a reading using AI.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mr. Dorman understood the lessons clearly on the topics he was going to teach and used various ways for us as the students to understand the topics. He does this very effective manner while also having fun along the way. Even in a winter semester, he teaches the class very consistently and effectively.