Reviews of professor Mark Pickering

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Pickering is extremely unfair and does not support his students. He also wastes time in class on jokes and stories, and this is very distracting. I would not recommend this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take this class if you are taking it for an easy humanitarian credit. He does not have any notes available online and his study guides often don't help too much on the exam. If given the choice, I would take another class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Definitely hard especially for an introductory course. You cover a lot of material and the test will have more than one unit on it, which makes it harder. If you skip class you won't have a clue on the tests. Don't worry if you feel like you have failed the test though because it is curved. I am honestly glad I took the course though.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Only grades are the tests so be prepared to pass the 4 tests he has.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed my time in Dr. Pickerings Intro to Philosophy class. If you dont intend on attending class, dont take this class, since theres a participation grade and the tests are much easier if you take notes during the lectures instead of relying on the readings. Overall, its an interesting class and the professor is funny.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There were only two papers and two tests and he didn't take attendance. The papers were graded really fairly but the tests were annoying because you have to memorize A LOT of stuff

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Pickering cares a lot about the subject material. The class itself is not too difficult as there are no required assignments during the year, but this means that the grading scale is a large majority tests that you have to go to class to do well on.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You won't pass if you don't come to class and take detailed notes. He does not upload anything, but he does give study guides for each test. I made an A, and I would take him again.