Reviews of professor Tad Ballew

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He does not reply to emails, it is the last week of the semester and I have no idea what my grade will be since he has not graded anything since early February. He uses excuses that he has many students. If you are graduating like I am, AVOID THIS CLASS! You will be unsure if you'll pass all semester. I heard he grades until they are due June 2nd!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Ballew is among the BEST professors I've had for GE. Primary textbook is a free online book. There are weekly write ups on a chapter assigned, which are really simple and sometimes fun if you find the week's topic interesting. Two large papers, but it's applying your major to anthropology so they're not too hard. Great, intelligent professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Ballew is a good professor! This is a upper writing course so get ready to write! A lot of discussion boards! 1 project, 1 mid-term, and 2 big papers. A lot of reading and mini quizzes based on the readings for that week. Overall, stay on top of your work and you will pass!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great/caring professor and pretty easy GE class! Weekly discussion boards (which you have the whole week to do), weekly quizzes (you get full points no matter how many you get correct), 1 paper, 1 midterm (written) and the final. There's a lot of writing because it's a W class. Overall, keep up with all the assignments and you'll be fine! :)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This course was online, and there were lots of short videos with quizzes we watched every week. There were a few short writing assignments, but nothing you couldn't do in a single day. This is a very fun subject if you get into the topic, however, if you're not interested I can see how this class could be boring. Very little social engagement.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The only course that prevented me from getting a 4.0 gpa before graduation. He grades all your work 1 day before grade submission. Never got to understand why I got low score for some of the work when I did everything he asked. Never got to see my scores for all the written exam. Sent emails for clarification, but never received a response.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor is great and very understanding, offers students to sill attempt assignments even If passed deadline. One big paper, midterm paper, and a final paper. Just watch videos and read a bit of the free textbook provided in order to answer weekly discussion board which there are like (3 a week), practice quiz you get points just for trying.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Ballew was very helpful and was very clear about what he expects! he gives clear instructions and was very organized which I appreciated so much! I was taking 18 units and this class was one of them, we had weekly discussion posts that were not tedious at all, it was very doable plus we had a FREE online textbook. Midterm was an essay!