Reviews of professor Stu Talene

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Stu provided much-needed clarification and research papers allowed us to explore our own questions.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Stu is a great professor who is very interested in the material that he covers in class. As for complaints, for a first-year class there is plenty of pre-reading which the lectures then cover anyways. Regardless, he is very knowledgable and if you put in effort you can do well and learn a lot.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Positives:
-Very passionate and intelligent prof.
-Extremely knowledgeable.
-Open to new opinions and interpretations of class material.

Negatives:
-Lectures are packed with information.
-Sometimes difficult to follow along in lectures.

*I do not recommend taking this class in the 3hr/1x a week format, instead take the 2 block per week option.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Stu's passionate and a good prof. unfortunately theres just way too much information and way too many papers for an introductory course. its overwhelming.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His content was quite fascinating and it was a lot of stuff I never thought about. Hes very passionate and I would recommend him to anyone. The assignments werent terrible and I found him to be a fairly easy grader. He was also very understanding when it came to late assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lots of lectures that seem like a lot of material and very confusing, but the tests are straightforward and he tells you what you need to know for them. Easy marker, just do the work and you'll get a good grade. Weekly quizzes are hard but don't count for much

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took this course in the Summer semester for 3 weeks, and it was the best RELS course I have taken. Prof Talene is incredibly humorous, but not in the cheeky way. He used Prof Craig Broyle's online textbook (free!) and explained everything way better than Prof Broyles did (I took this as a repeat course). I would recommend everyone takes Talene!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Talené is a very nice prof, but like other comments say his content is too difficult for an introductory course. It was confusing and hard to keep up with but he makes the essays/quizzes in a way that you can get away with not fully understanding stuff. Very difficult content but he's a nice grader thankfully.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Talené makes you enjoy doing your work. He does not overwhelm you with hours upon hours of homework per week. This style of enjoying my work has made me learn so much about the Old Testament, and has helped me avoid stress of making my assignments perfect. Other professors need to take note of how well Professor Talené runs his classes!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was the most useful course I took. It gave me a foundation to understand the OT that everyone should have. Stu loves the content, and tries to cover as much as possible. This can seem overwhelming, but tests are not bad at all. He is more than willing to help with paper. I LOVED this class and would recommend it to anyone.