Reviews of professor Charlie Deitz

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Charlie would be a decent professor if he weren't on such a power trip. His class was very poorly organized and the exams were not easy to prepare for. He also purposely released study guides the night before the exams to "encourage people to study on their own." This class was a joke. I truly could not tell you one thing I learned from it.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
i've had charlie twice now and i cannot stand his teaching style. aside from him being rude, he doesn't teach at all. j213 in theory is an easy class but he didn't release the study guide for our final (at 8 am) until 9 pm the night before. i wish other professors taught this class. not his fault but his ge's are tough graders.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Don't be thrown by your first impression of Deitz. He can come off harsh at first but wants to see his students succeed. The projects are intimidating but are graded easier than expected. There are a lot of extra credit opportunities you will want to take advantage of.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Charlie is awesome. His lectures are fun and interesting, and he has some crazy PowerPoint skills. He is really easy to reach and offers really good feedback during office hours and after class. The course content was engaging, and there was limited work and assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The content of the class was interesting. I think he taught it pretty well, but he is not accommodating. If you miss a test, even due to Covid, you'll fail. Also, the first paper was pretty boring. If the course content was applied better I'd rate it a 5.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I didn't like him as much for j201, but in gateway he's awesome. His lectures/slides are engaging, and he's very helpful if you talk to him outside of class. You can tell he cares about actually training you to get a job in Journalism or whatever you want to go into. The class is not nearly as hard as they make it seem, so don't be intimidated.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Charlie shows he has no empathy for students and doesn't care for anyone but himself. His lectures for this class were boring and not engaging, they had no relevance to the final exam and the majority of the class is just busy work. if you don't have to take it, don't. It is by far the worst class I've taken here.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is an overall fine teacher and knows what he's talking about but is rude & incredibly annoying. Makes little to no accommodations for students with technological, personal, etc. issues. He tries to be relatable but it doesn't work and comes across as frustrating and really really irritating. Impossible to reach him or the GE's through emails.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of my fave J classes so far. Deitz comes across as "aggressive" to many but my class had a lot of fun with him. Interesting/informative lectures that help A LOT on the tests so make sure to attend class. I got by without reading the articles assigned to us just by showing up to lectures. Only graded on two or three essays and a couple of tests.