Reviews of professor Richard Sturman

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I feel like INFO 380 is simply just a class that is boring content wise and it's unfair to hold that against Richard. I can tell that he's really passionate about teaching and tries really hard to connect with / make students laugh. Although I thought the class was kind of whatever (grading is really heavily dependent on your TA) Richard was great!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Richard has a great personality, the class is just structured awfully. TA's didn't respond at all, were extremely inaccessible. Grading criteria is honestly a mystery, and when I wanted to discuss this with a TA I just got a reply saying that they "already put in more than 5 this week and were therefore unavailable"??? Lots of busy work, 0 learning

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Sturman is a nice guy, but the lectures and structure of class were super boring. It was hard to stay awake, and it wasn't even an early class. We were just given tasks with not much guidance/examples. I don't know if I got any better at product managing, or anything else we were supposed to learn.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Grading was very harsh and subjective. Sometimes the feedback from TA to TA to the professor would differ, so it would misleading about our work/progress. Lectures are long and unengaging, and the lecture slides provide little to no help with understanding the content. Professor and a specific TA take pleasure in humiliating students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
The lectures were so ridiculously boring, but the class was a massive GPA booster. Initially, we were given 7% of extra credit, but he bumped it up to about 9-10%. Your team really matters for this class. 90% of your grade is dependent on them -- 40% group project, 30% reviews your group writes about you, 10% lab that's done with your group.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is boring, the assignment specs don't make any sense especially given the time constraint. Furthermore the TA was highly questionable had god tier like standards for participation based assignments. I mean Richard is a cool dude but he could at least do some example walk throughs in class instead of letting us take shots in the dark.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Certainly a difficult course, but I have genuinely never learned more from an INFO class. Richard is a very knowledgable and respected professor. He's someone I've gone to for career advise and he's not only well-connect, but just the best person to chat to. If you're passionate about Product Management, take it with him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Genuinely one of the worst professors that I've had the displeasure of taking. Tries to mask his subpar teaching abilities with uncomfortable interaction and mentions of wombats. Lectures do not at all help with the assignments given in the course and he seems to change up the course materials and schedules from quarter to quarter.