Reviews of professor Randall Salm

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor has a flipped classroom structure. Essay topics are difficult and hard to understand. He does let you use a sheet of notes on his exams which is helpful. He cares about his students and trys to get to know them. I just feel this class is more work than it needs to be and can be very confusing at times.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A very interesting person, with personal experience that supports his teachings. I greatly enjoyed this class, even if the lectures got a bit dry once in a while they were mostly engaging. I am honestly a little bit let down that I don't need any more credits for social sciences, because I would take another class with him in a heartbeat. Spring 22

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class involves 3 essays, 3 tests and 5 discussion topics. Dr. Salm takes the time to reply to every student's discussion post. He wants you to be specific in the essays but provides examples of good papers to help. Every answer for every test with the exception of the essay is in the chapter reviews. I thought he was great!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The worst teacher I've had in my 2 years of college. I was completely confused the entire time. I still dont know what SOC is. Id give him a 0 if I could. His tests are extremely hard. His writing assignments were just as bad. I don't think half the class passed. By the end of the semester there were about 7 people still attending regularly.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a very hard grader on EVERYTHING. He expects at least "15 hours a week of studying to pass the class". Wants a lot of group participation. He lets you have a cheat sheet for the exams but doesn't tell you what should be focused more on. HARDEST professor I've ever had. Also goes off topic a lot and talks about his work.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Salm is very nice and wants you to do well, but don't expect an easy A. You will have to read your text book. I had 3 papers and 3 exams. He is kind of unclear on the papers why he is taking off points, but for the exams you can use an entire sheet of paper front and back for notes. But even then you wont get 100%, it is not strictly vocab.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good professor. VERY lecture heavy, so if you are not passionate about sociology and don't like to listen to people talk, don't take him. He is very nice though. However, sometimes he doesn't answer your question clearly. Make sure you do the work though, because most of it is graded. Sometimes he will play music at the beginning of class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had SOC-1010 with Dr. Salm. It was an easy, but moderately challenging class. Although I did not enjoy the subject matter, Dr. Slam had no problem making it enjoyable and easy to grasp.