Reviews of professor Eric Solomon

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Exhausting class and professor. Likes to stack projects on top of each other, gives unclear instructions, generally disorganized and all over the place. I never quite knew what my objective was for any given project or paper, which just leads to unnecessary stress and confusion. I wish I hadn't taken his course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Solomon is an amazing professor who genuinely cares about his students. His classes were very discussion-based, so be prepared to talk. There was also a lot of reading, but he was very understanding about deadlines. Very insightful class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Yet another year with Dr. Solomon! Fantastic teacher and I couldn't recommend any of his classes enough. As long as you complete all of the assignments in his "grading contract" you will be successful. A couple of extra assignments and guaranteed an A. Really gave space to be creative and explore the topics however you want to (with great feedback)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Solomon is awesome. Super caring, sweet teacher who really cares about his students and wants the best for them. Be ready to discuss things that are controversial and sensitive in this class. There's 3 big assignments/projects and the rest of the assignments are pretty easy. Do your reading to make the discussions easy, and you'll have fun.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Solomon is by far one of the best professors I've ever had the pleasure of being taught by. His lectures are interesting and applicable to real-life and current news. Discussion-based, and quite a bit of reading. While I already enjoyed writing and somehow managed to make me even more passionate. Felt like I grew as a writer and person!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
The easiest teacher at Oxford. Legit everything is graded off completion and he allows the use of chatGPT for all assignments and just requires you to say you used it. Just show up to class and speak once!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you don't really enjoy writing he is a great prof to take. He allows you to write papers on things that interest you & prompts are very open ended (could be a good or bad thing). Lots of reading assignments (30+ pages before each class) but discussions are interesting but can be about sensitive & triggering topics. Partcipate in class often.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
His class and most of his readings were pretty liberal in nature. If you don't like getting political and/or are conservative, you might want to rethink taking him. However, you can get away with doing as few of the assigned readings as you want and still get an A (a fact he has implied he is aware of). So if you want a somewhat easy A, take him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Solomon is very caring, understanding, and terrific at teaching this class. I got to know my peers well, and the assignments felt relevant to the course material. Not only are the classes entertaining, he grades easily. There is a good amount of reading and a decent workload, but it never feels stressful. Great professor!