Reviews of professor John Degenhart

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
John was a good professor. His lectures were quite political and left leaning, although he very much heard out everyone's opinion. Pop quizzes happened often in this class. There was also a good amount of outside reading. The class time was lecture and discussion heavy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Has way too much work for an introductory class! Makes you watch a whole bunch of videos and listen to long podcasts just to answer questions on your written quizzes. Also very picky on how you answer the quizzes using sociological theories. Always uploads a whole bunch of assignments late and expects you to finish them within the week.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Fails to post weekly work on time. Fails to provide rubrics or grading criteria of any form. The amount of weekly work is more than the rest of my classes combined. If you're wondering if you should take his class, for your own sake ... don't.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
So much unnecessary work is required. On top of weekly lectures and class time he requires you to watch/read hours worth of outside resources that can "explain the topics better than he can". Then after all of this you have to answer very vague quiz questions. I've had to skip homework for other classes because of how much time his class takes up.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this class online thinking since it was just an introductory class it wouldnt be as hard. But I was wrong. The class has a lot of reading and analyzing poems using theories. Some of the poems were really difficult to understand. & the reading on top of the written quizzes were way too much work.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's super nerdy but is nice. Taking notes from the chapter definitions before class is what really helped me excel on the pop quizzes and the class in general. During the lecture I took extra notes next to the definitions from the book. I wrote really awful papers, but the notes are what got me an A I think.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There was a lot of assignments each week, I mean sometimes hours worth of work to complete one quiz. He was also a really tough grader on the quizzes. I wasn't quite sure how to get better grades on the quizzes, and his feedback wasn't always helpful. Although , I really enjoyed his lectures and the content we were assigned was very interesting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The only reason people don't get an A in this class is because they can't figure out the criteria he uses for grading. This is the least conceptually challenging class I have ever taken, and yet with the useless busy work he assigns us, it has taken up more of my time than any class I have ever taken.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is great. A new form of giving class and making students engage with content. Very fun class and extremely interesting content. Accesible and kind.