Reviews of professor James Howard

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Caters a lot toward first years where much of the class was not, tends to be a little cocky about the material and the course. Definitely an overall great professor though. Explains really well, lectures make sense and he prepares you really well for assessments. Fits always eat.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
horrible, he'll take off points for not doing something when it was his fault for not seeing it. textbook needed for one chapter. no instruction, just highly subjective evaluation

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This course has given me nothing but huge mental trauma. The whole grading scheme is just subjective and absurd. Also if you mess up the first speech, they will most likely hold a fixed perception of you and give you less credit throughout the whole course. Btw TA owns a lot of power in this course. If you meet a mean TA like mine, RUN.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Howard's assignments and papers were very straight forward and fairly easy to complete if you paid attention in class and kept up with the readings. The rubrics are also very helpful and straight forward with what he wants you to do and how he will grade you. He gives very helpful feedback after almost every assignment.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
James gave very entertaining lectures but I just am not able to learn from pre-filled out lecture slides. I ended up teaching myself everything, while only referencing his slides a couple times. He seems like an awesome prof if your learning style lines up with how he teaches, but it unfortunately didn't for me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Awesome prof! I hate physics and he genuinely makes me interested in learning the concepts. He wants his students to succeed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He genuinely loves what he is teaching. Very helpful, understanding, and laid back.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Don't get me wrong, James is an amazing professor, but for my learning style he is just not it. If you are good at being able to understand everything based off of reading pre-filled in lecture slides, that are mainly examples, then you're golden. I on the other hand have now taught myself pretty much everything from a textbook.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Howard is pretty chill. His rubrics are clear and explains things clearly to make sure everyone fully explains. His feedback was really useful it actually helped improved my writing. I honestly recommend him as an English professor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Howard is a true hero of communication who has saved me from my poor presentation skills and my resistance to taking risks.I have never met any course instructor who is as caring as him. He offers us 24/7 phone help and prepares a heartfelt letter the last lecture. I wish I failed so I can retake the course. By the way, nobody has ever failed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Funny professor who made physics easy to understand.