Reviews of professor Joshua Beaty

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Beaty is great and cares about his students. I had him for both Media Criticism and Mass Comm Process, both as asynchronous courses. He makes the discussion prompts fun and always gives extensions. His exams are usually mainly writing based but he also has some MC. Recommend taking him whenever you can.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Media Criticism was probably one of the best courses I've ever taken at Pitt. The material is so engaging. The coursework challenged me, but I feel like I learned more in this class than I have in others. Professor Beaty is one of the best profs I've had and I would definitely recommend any of his courses if you have the opportunity.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
doesn't make class fun or engaging for his students whatsoever and puts no consideration into what we may be going through in our personal lives. He lacks lectures for 2 weeks out of the semester, he's not organized, yet expects top notch quality work from students when he doesn't give us the same effort. takes him days to respond to emails too

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is one of my favorite courses I've taken in the communications department. This is a writing intensive course, but despite being fully remote Professor Beaty was always easily accessible and gave great feedback. I was truly challenged by this class but my writing skills have definitely improved from it and I learned so much.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This course was completely online and asynchronous. If you read the book, take good notes, and put in effort in your discussion posts, you'll do great. The content and lectures of this class are extremely outdated. Most of the recordings appear to be from at least five years ago. This class is simple and straight forward, but very outdated.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Beaty was awesome to take, especially for an online summer class that can really be hard to stay motivated for. The material we learned was really interesting, what he expected out of you was very manageable, and he was a really nice guy and grader. As long as you are putting forth a solid effort, I think it would be hard to do poorly.