Reviews of professor Ziv Rubinovitz

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best class I took in college. Incredible teacher, extremely knowledgeable. If you aren't already interested in the subject matter, you may struggle.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Ziv class is very difficult, especially during online. He is all over the place, he asks for your opinion then shuts it down real quick. Lectures could be easy but some difficult to understand

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I learned a lot from Ziv's class and would take it again! Only paper was a manageable 5-6 pages and there were weekly quizzes + a midterm and a final. 10/10.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is very lecture heavy. He goes on rants from the lectures and the notes are just paragraphs. He gives random quizzes and tests that are both small essay questions and gives no study guide, they also tend to be worth a lot. He also jumps back and forth a lot in his lectures.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ziv is really hard to understand. He's all over the place and tends to be unsure of himself while teaching. JWST 200 is all about politics, it's nothing but the relations between the US and the Middle East. There's one group paper, and then 2 small reading response papers. Every quiz is an essay including the final!! He does pop quizzes too.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you can find another professor for this course, do it. He does not give study guides nor is he clear on what information he wants. Looks for very specific answers that you probably would not think of. Lectures are all maps of the Middle East - the same map basically. little to no words on his slides. Tests are short answers, no multiple choice.