Reviews of professor Francesco Gagliardi

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
do yourself a favour and don't take, no directions on assignments, readings that make no sense, boring lecturer, is very abrasive towards students, maybe this should be an art history course or something, I had to write so many essays on a 1 sentence topic with no background that didn't relate to the lecture at all, extremely hard grading

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Absolutely outstanding. My favourite prof (and course) to date. Clearly very passionate and knowledgeable. Provided a lot of insight. Treated us like equals, felt more like we were his friend group than his class. Would recommend this class to anyone if Francesco is teaching it. You'll either fall in love with the content, or get the easiest A ever

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Best professor I've ever had. He is so knowledgeable and passionate, a little disorganized but he still manages to be a great lecturer

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Gagliardi is a very passionate professor, with interesting insights and wide-ranging expertise. I enjoyed his class thoroughly, and while I agree he was at times scatter-brained, he more than made up for it with his interesting lectures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is literally my bestie, I love his class so much. the whole class loves him we're all his besties and we all stay after class to just keep discussing the material with him. He gives really good lectures but still has a lot of participation so it's not just sitting listening to someone talk for 2 hours. highly recommend, he is #slay

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures were v clear. I didn't do many readings & only made slide notes. I recommend doing readings related to the papers. 3 papers: short summary, critical analysis & rewrite of analysis. Grading criteria fuzzy. The 1st unit is abt defining what art is, according to our intuition about what art is. Once you get that, it's easier to understand.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Loved his enthusiasm and clarity. This class wasnt his specialty, but he was able to adopt to its arbitrary curriculum and create something beautiful. I would love to take more of his classes!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Boring lectures and vague guidelines for assignments/grading criteria. Otherwise not bad.