Reviews of professor John McMurria

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I have taken 2 classes from Prof McMurria, his cinema 100 class and horror cinema! He is a great professor that organized the class in an easy to learn manner. You are exposed to an array of movies from all different times, while analyzing what the films intention is. He is flexible with due dates as well. Great teacher who cares for all students!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Super lenient with deadlines and offers extra time to do assignments without having to ask (and didn't dock points). Canvas page and modules are really organized. Course content is really straightforward. Quizzes every other week, film discussions every week, and one big paper that he helps you formulate throughout the semester. Great teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Rating is for CINE 106, Horror Films, which is not in the pull-down menu. Prof McMurria provided an extra credit assignment mid-semester, provided another extra credit assign one month later after I told him that I had missed the first one, and, in the last month of class, provided a final extra credit assign (class can only do one). Amazing prof.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
McMurria has been and always will be my favorite professor at Palomar. I wish other teachers were like this guy. He's very personable, caring, and lenient. He will take the time to meet with you outside of lecture times (which were not mandatory, however they were very helpful - also, all zoom lectures were recorded and accessible to look back to).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He was super outreaching and actually cared about peoples grade in the class and accepted all lacework

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
McMurria is a great professor, he constantly checked up on me because I would fall behind. He wants so badly for everyone to pass his class. I had about 3 missing assignments and he scheduled a zoom meeting with me to see if I knew the material so that he could pass me. He gives a fair amount of homework. overall a really sweet guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I took this course as a 4-week fast track class and it was so easy! You don't actually need the "required" textbook, as the overviews he gives of each chapter are more than enough. The only thing is you need time to watch the movies, but very easy class and awesome professor! I would take the course again as it was also very interesting.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Class was pretty easy, quizzes just about every other week, discussions almost every week. Topics were really easy to understand, and when needed he'd give good feedback that would clear up any confusion on the topics. Class is pretty vocab heavy, and all the movies were fun to watch.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
A great professor who responds to emails very often. Grading criteria is extremely weird, he will give you a b on certain assignments even if you put in 100 percent work but does not happen too often. Finish your assignments and watch the lecture then you will get an overall A.