Reviews of professor Ben Bigelow

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Returning to finish my degree after a 30 year gap was nerve-racking.  My first class was Ben's, and he made it easy. Learning from him was easy, enjoyable, and yet challenging.   I learned so much, and am still enjoying what he taught me.  By far, he was the best professor I have ever had.  If I could, I would take all classes he teaches.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He took more than 2 months to give back the grades for midterm 1. Made no announcement on what's going on or any sort of apology for this much time passed. The course materials are extremely silly and pointless and he takes off points for the most nonsense reasons. Out of every 3 words 2 of his words is uhh.. umm..

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great Professor, genuinely cares and gives a ton of feedback on papers. A few readings, but mostly watching movies/shows. 3 medium-sized papers throughout the course that are interesting. Kind of a niche class, but very accessible for everyone and so fun.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Cool class, good content. The only graded assignments are 2 midterms and the final, which is slightly terrifying. Luckily, the exams are pretty easy to do well on, with an at-home essay portion and in-class defining words part. Second class I've taken with Ben and he is just a cool guy :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
lovely guy but having a midterm on april 8th should be illegal

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ben is a great guy, a little goofy, very kind, able to explain complicated concepts in an understandable way. He balances class time with lecture and discussion. A lot of the time students checked out, but he did his best to help discussion. Gave helpful, detailed feedback and focused on developing writing skills, which are often taken for granted.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great class and likely the perfect professor to teach it. There is an expectation that you should go to lecture and participate, as Ben discusses a lot of themes that will be on the midterm/final that you likely won't catch by just reading/watching the course material.