Reviews of professor Joshua Kaye

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I would definitely recommend taking Professor Kaye if you get the opportunity. His lectures are always interesting and funny and discussion-based, not notes. He gives you all the tools you need to succeed in his course as long as you pay attention and participate. No tests or quizzes, just three essays and readings before class for discussions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Awful! Recommend not taking him, your whole semester grade is consistent of three papers. Lots of reading. Whatever you may think a certain philosophy means, it does not. Whatever he states in his lectures is what the philosophical viewpoint means.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Kaye is a difficult professor by the way he teaches. He expects us to know the lessons right away. No, he doesn't do tests or quizzes, but he gives 3 difficult essays. You are only allowed to use information he says in class and he isn't funny. He is always absent and doesn't care about you or your grade. He will fail you. Don't take him!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He teaches well through zoom through the discussions. Allowing students to ask questions on the readings of the week. Prefers for people to ask questions about the weeks reading because he appears to like to answer questions and help. Could take again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I did not enjoy this class. It was an online class and Professor Kaye had YouTube videos that he would just upload, that's how you learned. You had a ton of readings every week and then had 2, 6 page papers. That was the only assignments you got graded on so if you did terrible, you'd fail. He takes forever to answer emails as well as grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class as a prerequisite for another course over the winter. The recorded lectures helped make sense of the readings, I appreciated his sense of humor, and he really got me interested in philosophy. There were a few essay questions and 4 very easy quizzes. Highly recommend.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Only 3 grades all semester, mid term, final and participation. Annoying to read about, and you will never be right in his class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor was average. He knew exactly what he was talking about but the students didn't. Very hard to understand the readings from the book. He is also never available outside of class or through email so don't bother. He never puts in grades so you have no idea what it is until the very last day so if you failed, it's too late.