Reviews of professor Paul Kemp

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Kemp teaches through discussions. While he does require attendance, he doesn't force anyone to participate. This can create some boring discussions, but if you engage, you will learn a lot. If you don't, you'll still probably do well in the class. While the textbook is "required" you really don't need it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not easy to approach, very difficult on the grading, drop his class if you aren't the world's best essay writer

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Paul's Great. The only "bad" thing I agree with here is that he does seem to seek approval from his students, again he is relatively new. His lectures are NOT traditional, his slides are not really informative. You need to listen to him speak and write down what he says. If you would just pay attention during class, you'll learn a lot.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I would avoid taking this class if you can. Prof. Kemp seems like a nice guy who has valuable information to share but, his teaching style is unstructured and hard to follow. He spent the first 6 weeks on week one of the syllabus. His tangents and lack of PowerPoint make it very hard to learn. Your GPA won' suffer b/c he's an easy grader.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Kemp did not use any slides and his lectures were beyond difficult to follow. The information he talked about seemed so important, but it was lost in the class due to his delivery. The grade was made up of two long essays and one test (that had no study guide) and participation. Caution against if you are a visual learner.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
It was his first semester teaching 1500 - so a little dry and disorganized. Things improved as semester progressed though. I agree that paying attention in class is a must and taking notes is also helpful. Paul himself is helpful, intelligent, pretty open with ideas, and fair with grading. A little eccentric in a funny way too.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, even though his class is super disorganized and only follows the textbook half the time, I definitely learned a lot. Some of the lectures are more boring than others, but for the most part, he keeps the mood light and his tangents are very interesting. Be prepared to read the textbook, but sometimes they will have no correlation.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You know what, although the classes seem long and sometimes boring, I learned a lot. The credit goes to the prof because he makes sure to explain things in detail, sometimes derailing, but it helps you understand the material all the more. The grade was determined from 3 essays but there's plenty of time to complete them and he'll give you feedback

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Kemp was a good professor, pretty relaxed with grading but still won't give out 100%. He took a while for grading and also entered in a participation grade literally the night grades were due, so beware of that. Otherwise, this class was pretty boring and as an INTS student, I'm not sure it was the best foundation.