Reviews of professor Fredric Schwarzbach

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not only are his essay prompts extremely vague, but even if you go to office hours and put a lot of effort in, I honestly think he refused to give anything above a B+ on each paper. Lectures were messy and I found it hard to keep up. Take him if you need the credit and are okay with getting a B as a final grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Schwarzbach is ancient, the man is expiring, but he is a very kind and caring man. He is understanding of personal issues and flexible. He assigns a lot of reading but nothing terrible. Participating is HUGE for him, he just wants to hear your ideas. Grading is average, gets essays back fast.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nice guy, but the first Prof. that did not like my writing. His lectures are very all over the place. he covers a lot of concepts and you are never sure which one actually matters. But he is pretty understanding was able to re-write 1st paper and get an extension for another. Graded by 2 short essays, one long essay and a midterm/final

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a friendly, knowledgable, funny man but I am beyond elated that I am done with his course! Lots of papers, reading, group activities & boring lectures. He is a tough grader and although he says "follow the rubric and you'll be fine" you will, in fact, not be fine. He is not transparent. I beg of you, if you can, please find another prof!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
For me I thought he was a great professor, easy going and nice. If you participate and engage in his class it should be an easy A, participation is very important in this class though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Schwarzbach is a super nice and relaxed guy. He is a great professor but sometimes his voice can put our young and energized minds on the sleepy side. He really cares about his students and about the material. He always comes prepared and is always open to an inclusive class discussion.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a really nice guy and very knowledgeable but too vague. I've been to so many of his office hours trying to figure out what his papers are about, and he'll tell me one thing and then after I do that one thing he says its wrong. Take it if you're interested in the material because you might figure it out, but if not just look elsewhere.