Reviews of professor James Robertson

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor, assigns about 15 to 25 pages of reading but will go over the main ideas in class if the students are struggling to understand them. Assigned 3 papers about 3 to 5 pages each and grades tough but fair, gives a lot of feedback too. If you are looking to learn it's a great class, but not the easiest of A's so don't slack.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
don't take this class unless you have a background of quite a bit of knowledge about Russia and Communism. I took this class to fulfill a GE, bad idea. make sure u type fast, bcuz WOW each slide is completely covered in words. gives no context of what content is going to be on the Friday quiz. nice guy, bad structure and no explanations. sm reading

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Readings and quizzes are assigned every week. I think this is a history major class only because I had no idea what we talked about each week. If you've never learned anything about Czech history, you may get very lost in the class discussions. Some pop quizzes on readings. The graded quizzes are hard, but based on readings

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I think I could have gotten an A if I started the essays earlier. He can definitely tell when you start it the day before. So it's an easy A if you manage your time well I guess. He gives good lectures and his readings are pretty interesting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Start class every day watching some random video with music. Weekly quizzes based on textbook readings + two writing assignments and lack of extra credit. Powerpoint lectures don't really contribute much to the quizzes. Sometimes we'll go over the readings but not really. Everyone struggles with the quizzes too

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Topic on Communism. Some of the most insightful lecturers I've had. Prof's attention to detail & knowledge of history really shows. Weekly quizzes feel a bit too all-or-nothing since one wrong answer is 1% off of your grade. Papers are graded a bit tough: the prof believes students must earn their grades (which is fair, but keep this in mind)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class was interesting and intriguing overall but the professor and the TA expect you to be great at critical thinking and analyzing horror films and historical works. There are two papers for the class and the grading was harsh for a gen ed. Have to watch 1-2 horror films and read about 30-50 pages each week and write a discussion post about them.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
i quite liked this prof, even though his lectures are dense. he posts the quiz questions, so it helped me a lot to download the book and highlight the answers to reference later. grade is based on attendance, discussion posts, quizzes, two papers.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was a tough HumCore segment to like. The pace of the instruction is good but he lacks the passion to teach HumCore. Core students need to be inspired by the humanities just as much as they need to be taught humanistic methodologies. This is all the more important when the material is dense. He's earnest and nice but quite bland.