Reviews of professor Thomas Pender

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is really difficult considering it is completely online. The actual work was never too bad, just some quizzes and small papers based off of the readings. But the readings were ridiculously long. Also the quizzes and papers just do not prepare you for the two exams. I had an A in the class before BOMBING the midterm even though I studied

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very hard grader. I had to read more for this class than some of my classes combined. Even if you do the work you're only gonna get about a C.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took his History of Drama class online. The textbooks were expensive. If you like to read and just study a text book, then this is the class for you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the absolute worst professor I have ever had. On his papers, he takes off points if you didn't read his mind and answer questions not in the prompt. The quizzes ask questions that were not in the assigned readings. He does not prepare you for the exams and he is extremely degrading to students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Seriously avoid taking this class. I just took the midterm, studied for 2 weeks, got a 50/100. Now I will definitely end with a C. Please avoid at all costs. Class is not worth it. With papers he wants you to read his mind as well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the worst professor I have ever had at OU. The communication is terrible since it is an online course. You will have hundreds of pages of reading to do over this course from several different textbooks as well as the lecture notes he posts. Im tired of taking these classes for my gpa to get messed up along the way. Get it together.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Pender is way too proud of his class. He takes off points for everything , even if youre following the prompt. This class and major are attended to be a joke, and he makes it unnecessarily tough.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DON'T TAKE HIS CLASS! He grades papers so harshly and takes off a ridiculous amount of points for tiny things that you have no way of preparing for because he provides you with NO RUBRIC! When I emailed him asking to meet on Zoom to discuss my paper grades and what I could do better, he was hostile, and rude, and told me he would not meet with me.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Pender is very rude and very unhelpful. If you are emailing him to ask a question, get clarification, etc., expect to be met with hostility and a very bad/grumpy attitude. If emailing with students is just so taxing and inconvenient, may you shouldn't be a teacher! I dropped. Old grump.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Grading/feedback were inconsistent and confusing. He often took off large amounts of points for criteria that wasn't even mentioned in his prompts. Papers and quizzes were due often and had tedious requirements (ie: specific word limits), however, even if your paper fit his guidelines he still took points off (ie: "paper was barely long enough").