Reviews of professor Douglas Anderson

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
For anyone who isn't trained in english or metaphysical existence, everything that comes out of his mouth is complete gibberish. Today one of the slides said, "World is the clearing of the paths of the essential directives with which every decision complies. This means nothing. His grading responses are also super duper rude and condescending.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Makes the subject way harder than it needs to be. Un-inspirational, dry, & callous.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class wasnt easy - I've never worked so hard. It's a lot of reading, and it takes time to understand the concepts - philosophy, art, film. It's a difficult course because of the content (we read Heidegger AND had to understand it). But, I have to say: I learned more in this class than in any other class I've taken in CMS. Anderson pushes you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The class is EXTREMELY abstract. As the person below said, his feedback is very condescending on the take home exams, and for the weekly responses, the directions are very vague, yet if you lose points on the assignment he does not specify why. An artistic mind is a necessity for this class, and overall it was too all over the place for me.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
A hellish class experience. Not only was the class boring, the slides were also illogical, requiring students to spend a lot of time organizing notes after class, and then after finishing, they would found that it was him making a simple concept very difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is super nice and friendly always available when I need help discussing class materials and assignments. I also did writing credit with him. He cares about students' progress and well-being. He is kind of verbose but it's for the clarity of the content. I think he is still experimenting with his teaching methods, but he is very easy to talk to.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This was the worst class I've ever taken. He is a nice guy, but his prompts and lectures are nonsensical. He is passionate about philosophy -- but you will be essentially penalized for not understanding those abstract concepts in a film HISTORY class. Hard to reach via email. Quizzes every class. Strict paper grading. I would avoid him if possible.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lecture heavy but I personally enjoyed every part of it! He assigns about 1 film and 1 reading per class which is super doable. You can even go without it because he will go over it during class. He's passionate and you can tell he really knows what he's talking about. No graded homework, 1 group project, and 2 exams that are all straightforward.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doug has a good heart but his lectures are boring and he is not accesible outsde of class. Lectures are mildly relevant to the films we watch for homework, but instead of talking about and discussing the films, he rambles on with overly complicated vocabulary that makes it hard to understand what's going on. Bad lecturer, boring movie picks.