Reviews of professor Robert Neff

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Amazing professor. Very nice person who wants all students to succeed. Class is simple as long as you follow directions and dont wait til last minute. Always available for help. Would take again. Exams always easy and papers were quite simple.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Neff is a good guy, definitely cares about individuals, however, this is an introductory course, and it contained more homework than my senior level courses. He is extremely hard to meet with as well.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pretty straight forward, he drops your 2 lowest quizzes at the end of the course and make sure to study the quizzes because he repeats some questions for exams.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very nice professor and is very clear with his grading policies. He expects his students to read too much within two days, which can easily put you behind. Exams are easy if you study the online quizzes.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
It is an easy class, and Dr. Neff made it easy. PPTs provided online, but SHOW UP TO LECTURES for more in-depth explanations of topics. Individual research for the papers was the hardest part but the rest was simple, instructions provided hand-holds you. Tests cumulative but majority of things online is on the tests, so fairly easy to study.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
LOTS of content to go through. Final is cumulative, very overwhelming. 4 papers. Drops the lowest paper assignment & lowest midterm. Depending on how the semester is going, he can rush through content sometimes. LECTURE HEAVY! Take good and detailed notes from PPT, books, and his lecture. Retake the quizzes as much as possible so you can remember.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He wasn't a bad professor but his lectures were long and he was very talkative. I would recommend handwriting notes to help with the exam in his class. Its 4 exams in this and 4 assignments, with quizzes. The majority of quizzes are the same answer for the exam and he does drop the lowest exam grade and assignment grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is very passionate about what he talks about. He very clearly is an expert in urban planning and will often express how he is disappointed that this course doesn't dive deeper. There are 4 different papers to write. Three are 2-3 pages and the final paper is 10-12 but it combines info from the first three. Clear rubric and often updates syllabus

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Strays off topic a lot. Gives quizzes which are pretty easy as they are what he teaches but doesn't elaborate further on the ideas presented and expects students to provide full city plans. If you aren't willing to teach yourself how to be a city planner, do not take his class! You won't be taught.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lots of long lectures, easy quizzes every week with as many attempts as you want. Takes forever to grade anything but drops the lowest exam