Reviews of professor Brooks Sommerville

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Guy's Plato snaked

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Sommerville is great at contextualizing the text and explains all the material in a concise and effective manner. My only criticism would be his willingness to entertain student comments and questions that don't address the material directly, which drives the class off-topic. I found him to be accessible and very helpful outside of class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great lecturer, skipping a class or two isn't the end of the world. I would use his own words and examples on his assignments (3 papers) but the TA wouldn't understand where they came from so that was frustrating. I actually didn't really read any of the readings, and I skipped a lot of lectures, still got an A-. Not very helpful over email

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You're graded on 3 papers and the final exam. The lectures are engaging and you will pass if you attend all of the lectures since he goes over everything in extreme detail. His only real shortcoming is that he fails to shut down some of the students who constantly go off topic and monopolize class time. Other than that he is my favourite professor!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Brooks gives very clear, concise lectures, and is very amiable during them. Outside of class, however, I found him to be somewhat dismissive and rude towards student concerns. His grading criteria is also very vague, despite his ( oppressively) specific expectations from assignments. For a Philosophy professor, doesn't seem to value free thought.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Love professor Sommerville. His class isn't mandatory per se but worth going to cause he explains all the content in so much detail. No pranks on his exams or assignments, they're pretty easy if you just do the work. Lots of reading!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures are interesting, he knows his stuff and explains things fully, however he sometimes wastes class time going off on a tangent. Readings aren't required; his PDF class notes and class lectures are sufficient for papers and the final exam.