Reviews of professor Jason Porter

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Porter is very difficult in the way he teaches but the assignments taught me a lot more about visual communications than I anticipated from the course. Test and quizzes are a little difficult. Pay attention to rubric and course objectives in great detail

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A stern teacher but definitely a good one. Just follow along in class, do some reading, and ask questions. Was a great professor and guy to joke around and learn from.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you watch the videos you'll pass, he likes answering questions at office hour.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Jason has a lot of mixed reviews on here but he's a solid choice. Grades decently hard but do the work and you'll be fine. He is funny and real, but won't hesitate to ignore questions or requests that you can figure out yourself. Small work load, just don't skip watching the modules!! Helpful when we had to switch to virtual this spring.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took class for 1302 but option wasn't available. 
He spends way too much time reading off zybooks and doesn't really teach you how to code and so you're left not knowing how to complete the assignment and answer questions within zybooks or on the tests unless you took it upon yourself to learn how to code elsewhere. Can't get much out of lectures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Weekly quizzes, HW and videos to watch. Two projects that take place over the duration of the course. Three midterms and cumulative final. Most effort I've ever put into a class. Jason is respectable because he often checks on your progress and individual well-being, and gauges how effective his teaching methods are. Buy just half the book first!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Jason is awesome because he's insanely qualified and clearly knows what he's doing. HOWEVER, I struggled a lot in his class. The level of difficulty should definitely be compared to a 300-400 level class. His assignments have little clarification and he wants you to figure it out alone. But he is clearly super informed and a nice guy!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Porter gave a lot of notes along with strictly graded assignments and tests. Yet he is the most memorable journalism professor I've had. His class actually taught me valuable materials and it was pretty interesting. He is very passionate and his lessons are meaningful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Enjoyed his first few lectures, but then he turns into a major yapper and doesn't really supplement the material with the very few projects there are. Class is mostly tests that are impossible to study for, and 2 pop quizzes (one is over the intro class which felt like a waste of 5 points). Doesn't respond to emails, and is an uptight grader.