Reviews of professor Michael Starling

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class gave me really mixed feelings. Was it easy? Yes. Was the material interesting? Absolutely. Did I enjoy the class? Eh... I got fantastic grades throughout the semester, but I felt zoned out whenever I did the weekly work for this class. I felt so demotivated because the professor seemed like a ghost. Easy A I guess, but it felt pointless.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Mr. Starling is caring, fair, and funny. His humor and discussion-based classes make going to class enjoyable. There are a lot of papers, but they are typically short/easy. He got behind on grading in my class, but you have a general idea of how you're doing so I didn't mind. He's accessible and willing to help. Just participate & you will be fine.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Michael is a good professor who tries to make the class interesting. There are weekly readings that are really long and reading quizzes, but, they are not hard. However, the written responses do did not have clear grading criteria and tanked my grade because the TA graded so harshly. The final is a four-page paper which was also graded hard.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I took this class over the summer, and it was a very low time commitment. I would knock out the weekly assignments in one or two days. Good, short lecture videos and readings. We had to write short essay responses to the material each week, and he graded very fairly. Overall interesting and easy intro class!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
MJS is an okay guy, but he tries too hard to be "woke" and just misses the mark sometimes. He was unclear in grading criteria, this could have also been a TA problem because for the first written response I got a 60, but once I got feedback and understood what he wanted I got 100 on the other two. Lectures boring. Readings boring. No incentive.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amazing professor! Based dude, he's very caring and lighthearted. This class was an easy A, but I had to read quite a bit to get there. The content was interesting, and you could've googled the answers online (all quizzes and tests are take-home). He and Kat (the TA) really brought the class together and made it fun. Make sure to go to small group!