Reviews of professor Shawn Athanasios

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Athanasios is a great professor! He truly leans into the classroom experience and what it should be. He works hard to engage the students in conversation while encouraging them and motivating them. If you participate and give into the conversation in the classroom; he really does make class fun. I suggest taking it in person.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class itself is not too difficult, but it is endless busy work. He makes you do so much homework that he is ridiculously picky about and he is a neurotic grader. It's not the hardest class in the world, but there is nothing profound that you will gain from it and the homework takes away from time that could be spent actually learning something.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
AMAZING person. So inspirational. Wants to help you be a better person and student. Presentations were nerve racking but he helped you through them. Is ALWAYS there to help. Assignments were SO clear and so were his expectations. He changed my perspective on so many things and I am so glad I had the opportunity to learn from him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor is probably pretty good for an in-person class. He is not the greatest for online classes, but can be understanding at times. The amount of work required for a class this short is ridiculous. Make sure, when writing, you adhere to his personal preferences; otherwise, he will be sure to deduct as many points as possible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Not impressed with him. Had a simple and basic interaction with Shawn and he chose to be incredibly rude and hateful. I choose not to treat other human beings like he does. I don't recommend him at all after my experience. Good luck!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I really enjoyed his class! Even though the course consisted of presenting in front of an audience at the end of the day I knew that it would help me enhance my presentation skills so that I can use these skills in my future career. Excellent Professor, and really cares about the students and I would most definitely take him again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Pretty laid back class. Homeworks are very long but easy. Tests are kind of hard, but he curved the grade. There are some things he is very particular about. I wouldn't not recommend him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
For a one month class this was an insane amount of work, I cannot stress that enough. Its as if he crushed a busy semester long course into one month with no reformatting. I never got one comment on the content of my projects, good or bad, just the format and grammar. There was not enough weight in the homework for how long it takes. Unrealistic.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Athanasios is big on getting the class involved in discussions and goes into detail on each chapter and how it can be applied to real-life.  He is very encouragaing and wishes for the best in his students.  Tests can be more challenging, but you're able to make up for them with the assigned speeches and projects along with homework.