Reviews of professor Derek Carpenter

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor, really is passionate about film and makes you want to be as well!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Carpenter is a great professor who clearly cares about the course content. All of the material we read was very interesting and he gave great insight. We also had discussion boards and class discussion to really delve into the readings. He is very kind and patient and made the class a lot of fun.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I haven't had many reasons to really interact with the professor (which is why I rate him 4/5), but he's super kind from what I can tell. His feedback on your assignments are super insightful/helpful and you can tell he wants you to succeed. All assignments aren't bad as long as you put some time aside to take notes and watch assigned films.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof Carpenter is great and I would recommend him to anyone. His class is heavy on lectures and you must do the readings and watch any videos he assigns to get a good grade on exams, but the exams are not too bad and not assigned often. He usually only gives one homework assignment a week and is lenient on late work which is nice! I recommend!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Carpenter is a film buff through and through. He is a bit new at teaching and it shows. But he cares about his students and runs his class as more of an open forum style. Enjoying talking back and forth and showing movies. He encourages creativity. If you love movies and watching them this is the class for you!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's a good guy that wont take anything too seriously. Good class and good times.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Class is not hard if willing to watch some awful movies but does not grade anything. Week assignment, quizzes, 2 essays. Essay 1 was for midterm and months ago with no grade in sight. We have 3 weeks left and has graded 3 of my assignment so no way of even guessing my grade. If you take this class just be ready to not know your anticipated grade

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor made me so, so upset. He is the harshest grader of any teacher I've ever had for an online course that no one else in the class seems to even care about. He doesn't seem to want anyone in the class to get an A no matter what I do. It's really upsetting.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Really easy class. 250+ word assignment every week that goes along with the film (that you watch on your own time). Most of the time, going to class feels useless as there is not enough to talk about in the 2hr 45min class period.