Reviews of professor Anthony Rathburn

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible professor. He seems to want to gatekeep what will and won't be on exams. I don't understand why he refuses to answer the questions about specifics when the exams were in person and he would be watching us, either he refuses because he thinks we are going to cheat or because he's a very mean person & wants everyone to fail. He's very rude.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I'm fearful to write this. It's the worst class I've taken @CSUB. He assigns 6-12 DENSE scientific articles a week. You have to lead discussions on papers that were hard to understand & you may not have gotten to b/c of the unrealistic workload. He wants students to teach themselves based on these articles. He believes grad school should be hard.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
After a quarter of the semester it seemed like he didnt know what he was talking about. throughout all the lectures he constantly says ummm so much that its distracting. its so ditracting that i cant pay attention in class and end up counting how many time he could say UMMM his highest score is 245 times in one lecture.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He doesn't use Blackboard, and if he changes due dates, he does not update the syllabus. He doesn't use a powerpoint, so you record lectures and listen back on them to study. No homework. Lab matters! If you don't like or don't understand geology, don't take this course. I struggled a lot because I had never taken a geology class before this one.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hardest class you will ever take even though its not supposed to be this hard. Says ummmmmmm so much its annoying. He even confused himself . Do not I repeat do not take this professor.