Reviews of professor David Sackris

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Sackris is a beast. If you want an easy AH, not for you. If you want to learn something and get something out of your money, take his philosophy classes. Changed the way I learn fundamentally. Every minute spent working with Dr Sackris is time well spent.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sackris is a great guy and a great teacher. I took philosophy of religion with him and was let down by how boring the material was. However, this was compensated by the fact that Sackris is willing to meet outside of class and provide help when needed.

Although class wasn't mandatory, I'd recommend attending or reading the required texts.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a nice man but I can not click with his teaching style at all. There are 26 active reading assignments and the 8 of your lowest are dropped, he is a really hard grader and isn't very clear about what he wants on questions for the readings. There 2 papers and 3 exams in the course as well.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed the class in general, the lectures were amazing and he was great at creating conversations for the students to work out and talk through. But he did not except late work at all, I was having family medical issues and he suggested I drop the class instead of give me any way to fix it. No matter if the assignment was an hour or week late.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took Death and Dying (not intro) and it wasn't what I thought it'd be. The class is VERY lecture and work heavy. There's a small assignment due before every class that can sometimes take a long time. I was hoping there'd be more discussion, as it is a philosophy class, but no. Nothing against Sackris, I just don't like his teaching style.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I thought this class was good and you learn some pretty interesting things, though I felt that the professor felt like you should be an expert in philosophy. I also thought he was not very caring regarding confusion or questions to topics that were hard to understand.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Hilarious professor; there's an underlying bitterness to his words like an "everyone around me are idiots" vibe, but he is never mean. He reminds me of Dr. House. He's extremely intelligent and makes you think. Phenomenal class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I've taken online classes with Dr. Sackris twice now and he has been my favorite professor to date. There are weekly discussion posts and "active reading assignments" that will test that you not only read the material but deeply understood it too. Sackris always gives meaningful feedback and takes the time to make videos and lecture notes to help.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doesn't allow ANY late work. He is an insanely tough grader. My brother is in the same class with a different prof and he's skating through with one assignment a week and a high 90%. I struggled to keep my grade out of the 70's the whole semester with Sackris. I have no clue how he is in person but the 20 pages of reading a week isn't how I learn.