Reviews of professor Joe Dixon

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU CAN. There is essentially no grading criteria, and even if you follow assignment guidelines perfectly, he will find ways to lower your grade. One of the best gpa droppers out there.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Dixon himself is a fine professor, has some charming jokes in class and is nice. My biggest complaint is that he is a fairly difficult grader and his rubrics are very vague. He will call you out in class if you're being rude and talking, but lectures do not really have much to do with your work outside of class and are interesting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The material was interesting but it would have been better if Professor Dixon were better versed in it. He often would present information to the class that was inaccurate, sometimes multiple times a class. He also added two discussion assignments a week when classes switched to at a distance at the start of covid, which was overwhelming.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Guy was a complete tool. Lectures felt like they went on for an eternity, full of cool little zingers that Im sure Joe thinks are mad clever, guaranteed to make your eyes roll so fast into your head that you'll fall out of your chair. Basically stopped showing up to class, still did fine but don't recommend if you can avoid him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took one of his classes thinking it would be about something I enjoy, turned out to be completely different. Would never take him again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Joe Dixon is an incompetent wanking mess. If his unbelievable pretentiousness doesn't turn you off then the outrageous grading system and constant yawning probably will. Will not reply to emails from students despite the lack of a TA, has only remedial knowledge of the subject being taught. Overall a huge waste of time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I'm in this class right now. Lots of complaints: The worst lecturer I've ever had. Doesn't seem like he knows the content he's trying to teach, just stands behind the computer screen and mumbles off his notes, looking down the entire time. Absolutely no class discussions. Exam was nothing he said it would be and much of it he never discussed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
My main problem with this professor was that he waited until the second to last week before exams before grading one of our reading summaries, of which we had every other week since week 5, and proceed to give feedback that would have be helpful if we had another one to do. The grades on these assignments were also very harsh

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Joe was a nice guy and responded to emails pretty quickly. However, lectures were very drawn out and boring. Quizzes asked oddly specific questions but there was a decent amount of extra credit to boost your grade.