Reviews of professor Alan Altany

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You definitely have to work for your grade. There is only a few assignments that count towards your grade (exams, essays) and the large portion of your grade is participation in weekly discussion posts. He was happy to look over my essay when I questioned my grade. He is a professor that definitely expects participation, I would take him again!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good teacher, speaks quietly, if you read the text you can pass the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you love writing 6-8 page papers take this class! There is no real lecture..it is more of a conversation with the class and some information. You can only miss 3 classes regardless of your excuse. He reduced my grade to a 68 causing me to have to retake the class because I missed 4 classes. His quizzes are not easy. Take Professor Kirk instead!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class wouldn't be hard if you don't have a job or other hobbies. Took this class at the same time as my 2nd composition course; wouldn't recommend unless you love writing because it's the same as taking too writing courses at the same time. His essays were expected to be at least 1200 words, my composition class wanted at least 500.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This teacher is okay, he only had three exams and two papers as our whole grade. I do not like the way he lectures. I do better with a powerpoint or outline but he just talks about the topic for hours. He is very quite and sometimes hard to understand where he is going with something. I wouldn't take him again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are 4 total writing assignments so if you dont do good your grade tanks. Theres the discussion posts but he makes so many and there is so much textbook reading you are supposed to do its easy to fall behind. He is not really willing to help if you need it. He got rude with some of the students. I would not take this class again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I strongly disliked this course and professor. He always made post bringing down students about their work and never gave any positive feedback. He was really strict with his grading process always saying it needed more detail no matter how much you seem to write. easy to fall behind with all the discussions. Not willing to help you.