Reviews of professor Matthew Massaia

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Massaia is a really caring, kind, and welcoming professor. Modcon is a seminar-style class, so it is quite interesting if you apply yourself. Your grade is based on a few essays and discussion posts. A lot of reading. Do your work on time, participate, write quality essays, and you will do well. One thing is he is not good at answering emails.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
As a person, Prof. Massaia is super cool and understanding. However, his lectures can be a bit long and boring. He gives a lot of readings, and expects you to interpret all of them "correctly," but when you're in class he fails to help you understand the text in any way. He doesn't answer questions clearly or concisely and goes on long tangents.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took Creative Writing for an Art requirement and Prof. Massaia made it more fun than tedious! Attendance and homework are very important to get a good grade but the assignments are mostly from your own creativity from a topic. Sadly, that's not enough though because participation really makes a difference to get an A than an A-.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Massaia is one of the best professors I had. I took him for two semester in a row and he was great. Very nice guy and gives great feedback on papers. You have to write two papers along with a final and discussion questions every week. He assigns a lot of reading but you get used to it and you do not have to remember all of the specifics.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Massaia is the most caring and the nicest professor at Adelphi University. Highly recommend taking him especially for honors classes. He does really care about each of the students, overall he's an awesome person.