Reviews of professor An Pham

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class could have been much harder, An Pham is a very understanding professor and only assigns simple readings every so often. He will not give a random quiz on the reading, if he announces a quiz on a certain reading, make sure to do so. Lectures review the reading, you will not miss any content, but he grades on attendance. Miss only a few.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor is okay, but there's a lot of reading and lectures. He also accused me of using AI when I didn't, which was not cool but oh well

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Pham seems like a great person, BUT this class honestly isn't what I expected. The assignments are repetitive, confusing and/or boring (at least to me). Homework consist  of weekly 2 page papers based on readings (sometimes videos). Midterm and final are also essays. It's a-lot of writing, and at times feels like a history class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course is Writing Intensive, which means a lot of papers and that is understandable, but, he has you write about other people's writing about manga and anime. He spends most of the class setting up the history of manga and anime and then flops hard on the follow through. Find another WI course to take, this aint it

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I really liked this course, but the professor was really weird with grading. Taking 50% deduction for forgetting a page number. I found he was most focused on things that should have little to do with what the prompts were. He was very passionate in his videos and I appreciated that. But the grading, I simply could not understand how or why. Avoid

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Took this course for (WI) General elective thinking it was going to be a simple online course that took a couple of hours a week worth of work. Quickly learned this class was not of my interest as grading seemed hard. The professor seemed passionate about the subject but seemed to lack the knowledge that most wouldn't have the same passion as him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kid you not, 15 papers in the span of 3 weeks. Followed by a 6 page paper report as well as super specific questions on the final (not the final report) that are all super long written response questions that require you to remember something that one of 15 authors mentioned ONCE in one of the 20 pdfs he had us read. Just to be accused of using AI

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The people who left negative reviews about this class where probably thinking that it was going to be an easy A class being that the class is on anime and manga. However keep in mind that this is a writing class and is meant to teach you the history of anime and manga and not to be a class where you just watch anime and read manga.